Contrary to the openly stated of many in the latter 20th and early 21st centuries, ghouls, ghosts, and other horrors frequenting the nightmares of those who consider themselves to be otherwise rational and "scientifically" minded, are just as real and frightening today, as they were in the 19th and preceding centuries. In the first tale, The Weerwolf Problem Sherrod Colsne finds himself confronted with circumstances and events that shatter his own steely sensibilities. Monty does not accompany Colsne in this affair, but learns of it from an unwontedly garrulous Colsne on a February evening in 2008. Monty is forced to reassess all that he had come to accept about the monsters that had once been part and parcel of most people's belief systems prior to The Industrial Revolution, and the subsequent explosion of "scientific" discovery. No less nerve rattling for both New York City sleuths is the truth behind a series of freakish animal deaths in Upstate New York, found in The Golden Dart.
