Apocalypse

A woman returns to wreak end-of-the-world vengeance on her Pennsylvania hometown

Disfigured since birth, Joanie Musser has endured decades of taunts and torments from the "normals" in Hoadley, Pennsylvania. Her only friend is a boy named Barry Beal, who has an ugly birthmark on his face. A few days after Barry lends her $500 and his welder's mask, Joanie disappears.

Cally Wilmore, a vaguely discontented mother of two and the wife of the local funeral director, sees Joanie first: a breat...