A coming-of-age tale evoking Mark Twain, Stephen King, and The Sex Pistols...  Set in 1978, American Ghoul invites us into the world of seventeen-year-old Howard Pickman, a boy with serious problems. He's the new kid at the worst high school in New Jersey, he's a nerd, an orphan, and has no friends - but that's nothing compared to his secret family history of digging up corpses for dinner. All he wants to do is remain anonymous, "under the radar" as he puts it - but Howard learns being a teenager in America can be so dangerous, you might have to become a monster in order to survive. Much more than just dark fantasy fun, this ripping yarn is classic storytelling at its finest.