For 30 years New Mexico has lived in terror of a beast that hungers for blood. Now, a lone farmer has done the impossible. The beast has been captured alive! Now the small town of Hobbsbad has been thrown into chaos as cryptozoologists, crackpots and reporters invade to be the first to catch a glimpse of El Chupacabra! But even in a town this small, more than one terror prowls the night.