

Both the boy and the man have much to confess and discuss, and few other people available who will truly allow either to express himself. Ivan is, unsurprisingly, creepy, but Adams renders his draw for Reggie understandable. The boy strikes up a sort of friendship with Ivan. Instead, he brings Ivan to his treehouse and tries to nurse him back to health. Reggie doesn't do the sensible thing and tell his mother, who is overprotective and on autopilot due to grief, or call the police. Ivan is a contract killer, and the police are on the hunt for him.


His name is Ivan, and he begs for no police or ambulance assistance. Then he meets a man in the woods who has been mortally wounded by a gunshot. When Are You Afraid of the Dark? begins, Reggie is a 14-year-old boy in Arizona who thinks he's learned a lot about death already.
