Introduction: There is a town in Pennsylvania like all others in Appalachia, where no one dreams of anything if they don't dream of leaving. Jobs are vanishing, people are depressed, and enormous superpowered predatory animals test the defenses weekly. But luckily for Dudlin, PA, a change is coming - Salem Cooper is about to die. This is a story about a boy becoming a dungeon, and a dying town becoming a destination....