Mindy Clerk is the shy and fearful assistant of Dr. Hopkins, an alchemist from Lostown who is forever engrossed In his experiments. The doctor's field of Investigation Is psychoplasmia, a science that studies that Influence of the mind on people's bodies. Brendon, who is in town in search of a contract, bumps into Mindy: the girl is terrified! She's convinced that Hopkins's research has corrupted her soul, transforming it into Bogeyman, the man in black of old tales that spreads death out on the strip where the street-walkers parade during the Happy Hour...