Professor James Lowry doesn't believe in ghosts, the supernatural, the surreal, or any type of dark fantasy. Not until a gentle spring evening when his hat disappeared, and suddenly he couldn't remember the last four hours of his life. Now, the quiet university town of Atworthy is changing - slightly at first, then faster and more frighteningly each time he tries to remember. Lowry is pursued by a dark, secret evil that is turning his whole world against him while it whispers a his forgotten scary story from the shadows: If you find your hat you'll find your four hours. If you find your four hours then you will die... Fear turns to terror... "A true scare!" -Ray Bradbury "What I'm writing is really psychological fantasies, on the order of L. Ron Hubbard's Fear . Without Fear , I would never have come up with what I do." -Philip K. Dick