In 1933, Edward "Stubbs" Stubblefield was just another traveling salesman trying to get by during the Great Depression. His lifelong losing streak reached its logical conclusion when he was brutally murdered and ignominiously buried in a remote Pennsylvania field. Now it's 1959. Billionaire playboy industrialist Andrew Monday has constructed a monument to his own ego: Punchbowl, Pennsylvania, a technology-driven City Of The Future to which the world will look for guidance. Unfortunately, Punchbowl is built atop the same stretch of land where Stubbs was buried all those years ago. When he crawls out of his grave during Punchbowl's opening day celebration, Stubbs doesn't know who killed him or why he's returned. All he knows is that this strange city of towering buildings, bright lights, and incredible machines wasn't here before... and that eating somebody's brains would make him feel better.