Maniac! - Tom Mason kills his poor mentally handicapped brother Harry to protect him from the mob ala Mice and Men, but the way the story unfolds soon makes it clear to the reader that Tom is actually the lunatic. The Head of the Family! - When Francie Bleeker falls in love with Hugan Fesker she decides she must discover the secret of the Fesker family, which is that the family is a single organism sharing several bodies. The Greatest Horror of Them All! - Johnny lives in Sanctuary where other deformed people live free from the prying eyes of the public. He falls in love with Elena, the lovely secretary, until he learns her secret, that she too, is yet another freak.