Mr. Jupiter and the Titans are present at the deathbed of Jupiter’s black adoptive aunt, who presents Mal with an ancient voodoo fetish, the Moojum doll, as she dies. Over the next few nights, Mal, who bears a resemblance to Ned Jackson, Jupiter’s aunt’s father and a former slave in pre-Civil War times, finds he is being haunted and pursued by the ghosts of slave-dealer Ahab Barstow and his hunting hounds. Despite the Titans’ efforts in his behalf, Mal is saved from the spirit-beings only when the Moojum doll comes to life as his giant protector and destroys the phantoms forever. Synopsis, Second Story: Still traveling in search of her true parents, Lilith joins forces with Ned, an amnesiac boy with similar mental powers whom she suspects could be her brother. When she is finally able to overcome the mental block created by his amnesia which prevents her from reading his mind, Lilith learns that the two are not related after all, but is able to reunite the boy with his parents.