Where Evil Grows: Sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll... from Hell.
It's 1976. The rock group KISS is cool. Every teenager alive wishes they could be so cool. So what would you be willing to do to hang around with the cool kids? Pretty much anything....
Justin Foley has cool new friends; they smoke dope and everything. And now that Justin is just as cool as his friends, an evil and malignant entity as old as time and space also wants to be his friend. And more than that, while it gestates in the service tunnels beneath Justin's school, the thing wants Justin to be its mentor. It wants Justin to teach it all about life and what it takes to be a success in this world.
What better place to learn than in a school? And what better measure of success than in taking control of your own destiny? Of course, along the way you might also learn how to assume control of everybody else's destiny....
Where Evil Grows: When fantasy becomes reality... you'll suffer.
Seymor Reynard: pig farmer and class pariah. The lunch room riot. Justin goes to Kelly's Records. A basement bedroom!
The entity growing in the service tunnel. Justin smokes to be cool and blows chunks at school. Teachers dealing with rampant student misbehavior.
Trevor Newson and black gummy hash. Physical education, queers, and tote box assignments. Justin learns how to smoke cigarettes.
Perry Putnam, janitor of the school. Mice down in the boiler room... and in the service tunnel. Justin and his cool new friends and the first day of school. Annette Barker had good reason to stress.
Prolog: school and mice. Justin Foley rocks out to KISS and makes new friends, Matt and Jerry. Annette Barker stresses about the first day of school.