But when Danny Wooten, his personal assistant, told him that there was a ghost for sale on the Internet and asked did he want to buy it, Jude didn't even need to think.
-- Narrator (Chapter 1 paragraph Page 4, paragraph 1)

Importance: Heavy metal superstar Judas ‘Jude’ Coyne has been collecting things since he was a kid named Justin Cowzynski growing up on his father’s hog farm in rural Louisiana. Since making it big in the heavy metal music world, the main focus of his collecting has been on macabre items, and his collection includes a used hangman’s noose, a human skull, a snuff film, and a three-hundred-year-old confession a witch signed just before she was burned at the stake. After he receives an email from an online auction site, Jude’s assistant Danny finds that someone is looking to sell the ghost of their stepfather online to the highest bidder. Jude immediately bids $1,000 – even though the...