少年尤斯图斯的父母都是研究自然与环境的科学家，常年奔波在外，后来在一次考察中不幸遇难，留下的唯一遗物就是一盘他们临死前录制的录像带，指明事情跟一座诡异的城堡有关。为了查明事情的真相，尤斯图斯和他的两个小伙伴耗子成立了一个侦探组织，利用尤斯图斯在一次比赛中得到的奖金，开始了他们的探险之旅，在破解父母留下的暗示后，终于找到了这座神秘的城堡，随后在这里遇到了许多诡异的人和诡异的事情。

　　琳迪这个漂亮风趣的女人有一个痛苦的秘密：由于终身的、罕见的神经紊乱，她经历了阵发性的狂怒杀人冲动，解决方式只有用特殊电极装置电自己。在一个害怕她的奇怪状况的世界里，她无法找到爱和联系，最终她信任了一个男人，并爱上了他，却发现第二天他被谋杀了。　　琳迪感到心碎和愤怒，她开始了一个复仇值拉满的任务，寻找幕后杀手，与此同时，她也被警察作为这个案子的头号嫌疑犯追捕着。

在一场死亡率不是1%，而是98%左右的疫情之后，艾莉离开了她的街区，到了一个新的城市，在那里她遇到了奎恩，一个对新世界有独特生存之道的人。

The main character is Dr. Max Holst, a successful neurosurgeon. One day an intense little man named Steinmetz shows up, who has the real ability to create objects out of thin air, using only his mind. As no one believes him at first, he is held at a ward for mental patients, but manifests the key to his door and escapes. As he has a special interest in Dr. Holst, Steinmetz subsequently invites Holst to his large mansion, which is full of expensive paintings and sculptures, and proves to him that he can in fact materialise objects. Steinmetz’s abilities are evolving by leaps and bounds, and is progressing from being able to create objects only to being able to create living things. His ultimate ambition is to be able to create a human being. He tells Dr. Holst that if he will only perform a certain brain operation on him, Steinmetz will become able to attain his goal. He’s got all the necessary equipment set up in his basement. Dr. Holst, however, is too spooked by the whole thing to agree to this mad scheme, and refuses. Steinmetz then sets about manipulating Holst’s life, to pressure him into performing the operation. By then Steinmetz has become able to create a temporary human being, and in the hope that he can perhaps make his own creation perform the operation, he manifests a doppelganger of Dr. Holst. This double proceeds to take over Dr. Holst’s life, creating chaos for him professionally and personally. And then Dr. Holst starts fighting back. The ending has the dual virtue of being both unexpected and satisfying.