In the first story, Ed is sent to fright school to prepare to take over for his father, the Boogeyman, but what he learns there is a shocking secret about himself. In the second story, Mary meets Ed and learns why she has always been so different from her peers.
Last year, Dark Horse Books introduced readers to Dreadful Ed - a very normal, very nice human boy who winds up as heir to the throne of the nightmare world called Nocturnia! In this stand-alone sequel to that fantastical story we meet Mary Scary - the weird baby girl who was swapped out for Ed when her parents, the Boogeyman and his wife, needed a male heir for their spooky kingdom! Mary has always been different from the rest of her peers. Maybe it's the spider on her head, maybe it's the snake around her neck... but something about her makes everything about her weird! And just when it really starts to bother her that everyone seems to notice how different she is, she meets someone who might be able to help her be less scary - a very normal boy named Ed.