Welcome to the Scatterhorn Museum! But don't get too excited -it's a cold and dingy placed crammed full of tatty stuffed animals and junk. But when Tom is sent to live here he soon finds that there is more to the museum than meets the eye. The animals may be shabby -but they possess an incredible secret. And when Tom discovers he can go right back to the time of their making, a hundred years earlier, he embarks on a journey of unimaginable terrors!