<p>Ashley didn’t recognize the tense weathered face beneath the hat at all. She realized in a chilling moment that he wasn’t a living person.<br />“You’re dead aren’t you?”<br />The ghost smiled pensively before he continued.<br />“My name was Clyde.”</p><p>When Ashley pushes her homemade nuclear batteries too far Clyde crosses over from Boot Hill to pull her from the wreckage.</p><p>From Nebraska novelist Bunny Hammond This Is Dismal is the second novel in the This Is Dismal series but is written as an entry point into Dismal.<br />Welcome home.</p>