The events of this story occur in a cemetery on Stanley Street, Niagara Falls, Canada. The main characters are five disgruntled, misfit spirits who refuse to accept the fact that they are dead.
They are not fond of each other, but owing to circumstances, they are forced to spend most of their time in each others company during their waking hours. They spend most of their time at the Fat Ladys Tomb, plotting and scheming how to escape their untimely entombment in the cemetery that endeavors to hold them hostage against their wishes due to their misfortune at having arrived their in the first place. Do they escape? Read on and find out.