Mister Magic

Val has lived her entire life on an isolated ranch, under strict rules and a steady fear of the world beyond it. When her father dies, three men arrive at the gate. They say they knew her as a child, and that she belonged to the Circle of Friends, the young cast of a television show called Mister Magic.

Val remembers nothing of it. The show was loved by its viewers and ended suddenly after a tragic accident. No recordings of it exist, and no trace remains of its mysterious host. The only people who might recall it are the five surviving members of the cast.

Val travels with the men to a reunion near the show's original set in the desert of Southern Utah. There she starts to assemble a past she was never allowed to keep. Each step toward the truth about the accident makes it harder to believe the show's power was ever confined to a screen.

This is horror with a nostalgic surface and an unsettling core, built around memory, control and what children's television can leave behind in the people who grew up on it. Val has to decide how much of her own past she can afford to recover.