Stille’s story is creepy and atmospheric, simultaneously sentimental and sinister. Old amusement parks are always creepy, and Cassie the old archway is a strange character indeed.

After the boy went missing, no one noticed the soft patch of grass abutting Cassie’s east wing. They didn’t ask questions of the twitchy groundskeeper, didn’t spot the strange stains on his shovel. By the summer of 1993, investigators had given up.