Jenny reaches over and clicks on the lamp by her bedside, throwing a yellow glow over the room that makes her squint.

A deranged keen comes from outside the window and sends a chill down her spine. Then arms throw out from under her bed and army crawl out. A shaggy brown head turns and looks up at her. She stares down at Crazy Tom, the creepy guy from across the street who she once saw crack the head off of a squirrel with his bare hands, and the chill becomes a painful fear that locks up her body.

Crazy Tom grins up at her, and there's blood in the cracks between his teeth. His eyes are completely white except for the pupil, and his skin has grayed and dried up and is peeling is places. There's a sharp-looking knife in his hand.

There's a thunk from the window, and Peggy and Maggie from next door are there. Peggy bangs her head on the window frame again before managing to push her head through and falls onto the floor. They both grunt and moan and bare their teeth as they're clambering up. More come behind them, including six-year-old Mindy and her father, both glass-eyed and baring their teeth. Crazy Tom scrambles up and dives at Jenny.

Jenny twists and leaps off of her bed, running out of the room. She screams down the hall to the living room, glancing around for an escape in the dark as she skids across the laminate floor in her socks.

Through the largest window of the room, she sees old Henry in the streetlight, the senior that could be seen most mornings out watering or weeding his lawn and flowers. He and Hailee, the postwoman, are attacking Michael, the man that Jenny considers her "hot" neighbor, as he fights them off with a weed puller. More dark figures of her neighbors are heading for him, drawn toward the fray, and the way they are walking and holding their hands out, they're clearly not there to help him, but to get a piece of him.