In ''Long Way Home,'' a young soldier returns from the Middle East and discovers that there is another -- much stranger -- war to be fought in his hometown. In ''Mister Pockets,'' a young paperboy discovers that a random act of kindness may have greater consequences. In ''Property Condemned,'' a prequel to the Pine Deep trilogy, young Malcolm Crow and his friends go looking for ghosts and find something much darker. In ''Whistlin' past the Graveyard,'' a cemetery worker begins to suspect that the dead are not resting easy in their graves. And in the new story ''The Trouble,'' a sequel to the trilogy, Malcolm Crow prepares for another battle with the forces of darkness. --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.
