Fleeing depression over his coma-stricken wife, journalist Michael Wilde travels to the South Pole on an expedition in search of a mysterious vessel carrying an exiled Crimean War deserter, discovering upon arrival the bodies of a young man and a young woman bound and frozen in a block of ice, both apparently alive.
Muhyo and Roji, two experts in magic law, hasten to track down the ghost of a schoolgirl who has been causing trouble and bothering subway passengers, before any real damage can be done.
Mr. Blood is called to an island to hunt a werewolf, but it soon becomes clear that something else is going on that endangers the Dark Hunter as well as his young helpers, Edgar and Mary.
Danny North, a member of a clan of mages in exile in the human world who grew up in an isolated home in the mountains of West Virginia, finds his family in danger by secrets which were kept from him and enemies who will do anything to keep them in exile.
Odd Thomas and his traveling companion, Annamaria, think they have found a haven in Roseland, a magnificent West Coast property, but the manor has deep secrets and mysteries that make it more hell than haven.
Medium Odd Thomas, having had a vision of three helpless people being executed by a man who once held him at gunpoint, races against time to track down the potential victims with the help of the ghost of Alfred Hitchcock and some unlikely allies.