John Coal is the town oddball. Old, crotchety, pungent and solitary, he lives in a scary old house that is almost as rundown as he and sees out his days shuffling around the streets harvesting his neighbours' skips for scrap.The local kids take great delight in plaguing him morning, noon and night but they've chosen the wrong old coot to mess with this time because John Coal is no ordinary man. He knows where the bodies are buried. He's been to the outer limits. He is the keeper of dark secrets. Murder, monsters, demons and bi-polar vampires: John has seen them all and lived to tell the tale. Now, if he is to rid himself of his woes, he must dig deep into the recesses of his past and use these terrible experiences to convince his tormentors he's not just an old man to be messed with.He is John Coal...The Monster Man of Horror House.