Max is just your average kid growing up in Gallows Hill, a small town outside of Boston--well, except that he lives in a gothic mansion with an old former prizefighter, and his after-school job is carrying on the monster-hunting tradition of his family, the van Helsings. Max always tries to be kind and fair to the ghouls, demons, and other creatures he encounters, so he's confused when monsters start attacking him, even those he thought of as friends....
