<p class="MsoNormal">A small corner of California's rural cattle land wins its first unholy lottery - but not its last one. Years later, retracing the history and shape of the original nightmare leads across the north state to a half-hidden commune where people once dreamed of making mythical creatures a reality.</p>

A small corner of California's rural cattle land wins its first unholy lottery - but not its last one. Years later, retracing the history and shape of the original nightmare leads across the north state to a half-hidden commune where people once dreamed of making mythical creatures a reality.

<p>A small corner of California's rural cattle land wins its first unholy lottery - but not its last one. Years later, retracing the history and shape of the original nightmare leads across the north state to a half-hidden commune where people once dreamed of making mythical creatures a reality.</p>

Chapter 1: 'The Unicorn Man' & start of Leonard Lake's obsessions

When the unimaginable happens not once, but twice, in the same isolated ranching community, its dazed people feel a cloud settling over their towns and backroads. After time passes and questions deepen, a newspaper crime reporter returns home to meet up with a homicide detective and a pair of songwriters to make sense of what took place here. He learns that the shadows of the past bleed into crimes of the present.

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Chapter 1: 'The Unicorn Man' & start of Leonard Lake's obsessions

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