When Ted Hall's birthday dinner in San Francisco's famous Chinatown ends
with an explosion, the fire department blames a gas leak, but when Ted
finds strange, personalised messages from the restaurant's fortune
cookies scattered around his apartment, his suspicions are aroused,
particularly as his somnambulant travels appear to coincide with murders
by the notorious Hang Wire Killer.
Meanwhile, the circus has come to town, but the Celtic dancers are
taking their pagan act a little too seriously and the manager of the
Olde Worlde Funfair has started talking to his vintage machines. And
while the new acrobat is wowing the crowds, his frequent absences are
causing tension among the performers.
Out in the city there are other new arrivals, immortals searching for an
ancient power which has been unleashed, awakening something awful buried
deep beneath the San Andreas fault...a primal evil which, if not
stopped, will destroy the entire world.