


Max met Isabel's cheerful book spirit, Eightfold, while she dealt with her departed grandfather's strict discipline. The Ghost Train had the power to shift any obstacle in its path out of its way, allowing it to pass through Mayview's barrier. Spender and the Activity Club were to meet her outside an invisible barrier that surrounds Mayview by taking a ride on the Ghost Train, a spirit tamed by Spender's old friend Doctor Zarei. They assigned a rookie agent, Agent Day, to perform an internal investigation.

The gruff Agent Walker and the whimsical director of the Paranatural Activity Consortium, Boss Leader, pressured him about the purported presence of monsters (humans distorted by the supernatural, vampires and werewolves and worse) within Mayview. Spender, the Activity Club's leader, was called into a dream by his superiors. Shadows began to gather in Chapter 4, when Mr. Max began to consider the possibility that the ghost of his mother, who had passed away five years ago, might still be lingering in the city that he left behind. It seemed that Doorman and this unknown someone knew each other well, and their enigmatic exchange was the first hint that many spirits in Mayview were searching for a source of hidden power. In the dark halls of the Slanted Manse, Doorman, Isaac's spirit mentor, conversed with something strange that spoke through Max. The pair tangled with the Sphinx of Games and his confusing, largely ineffectual powers, as well as Johnny and his gang of bully friends.

In Chapter 3, Max learned that Isaac, a sensitive, weather-shaping spirit medium, was kept from many of the Activity Club's secrets, and had hidden a few secrets of his own in return. In Chapter 2, Max met PJ, a ghost that lived inside his house, and the enormous junkyard spirit Scrapdragon, which lived inside his baseball bat. On his first day at Mayview Middle School, Max was recruited by the Paranatural Activity Club, a group of spectral students that defends the town from all sorts of spooky threats. Max hardly had a chance to sulk about missing his friends back in the city of Baxborough before he was thrust into a world of spirits and superpowers. Our story began when twelve-year-old Maxwell Puckett moved to Mayview, his father's old hometown. And that's the recap! Look forward to the Chapter 8 cover page coming tomorrow! See you then!
