The Approaching Storm — Larry Nabbs

This is an adventure fantasy which starts with a young orphan boy named Jimmy who sees a monster one night through his bedroom window. Nobody believes what Jimmy saw and, being unhappy in his foster home, he runs away and decides to live in the streets. He makes friends with the street people and feels ‘safe' with them. A few years later, and never having forgotten what he saw, Jimmy sees a beautiful girl in the street and is immediately attracted to her, the girl however finds that he is a ‘tramp' but one of the girl's two friends takes pity on him and takes him to a special ‘home' where a strange doctor and his helpers look after people like him. Unfortunately, bizarre things are happening in the home and Jimmy once again finds himself confronted by monsters. The three girls visit him and find themselves caught up in an adventure which transports them all into another dimension populated by ‘short' people and demons. The demons, who control this other world, have strong magical powers and have turned the ‘short' people into slaves. When Jimmy and the three girls discover that the demons intend to invade the earth they decide they must stop them. Unfortunately, two of the girls are taken prisoner and Jimmy and the remaining girl who had been the one to take pity on him find a way to return to earth to try to stop the invasion, but when they return, they find that they are too late. The demons are now in control of the world and most of the people have been turned into mindless zombies. Can Jimmy and the girl find a way to save the world by themselves? Will their friends trapped in the other dimension be able to escape?