Richard Mulligan, who usually played comic figures, is the father of a mentally handicapped boy who has a "gift." He can look at a picture and bring that thing to reality. The yard is filled with the graves of small animals he has brought, but they aren't alive. These people manage as long as they isolate themselves and protect the kid, but once human services get involved things go haywire. The parents are prisoners and are not even safe in the house. Picture book are locked up as well as any visual media. This is a cleverly done, tragic story.
Review of The Toys of Caliban
