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Lisa, David, and Ernie have the best summer jobs in Salem: They grow giant pumpkins at The Cauldron Company, which makes Halloween displays for stores all over the country. What none is sure about is if the two sisters who own the company, Jennifer and Carol, are really witches. The two pretend that they are, as part of their marketing, but the young adults aren't so sure. Too many wonderful and magical things happen on the farm for it to be just pretend.

In fact, the sisters are a genetically advanced form of human who are smarter, stronger, and longer-lived than everyone else, and their goals are to enrich the lives of the young adults who work for them and make the world a better place.

Lisa is allowed to hire a troubled young man named John because she believes that all he needs is a job and people who believe in him to change his life for the better. Jennifer and Carol aren't so sure, but agree to give John a chance. Slowly, the magic of The Cauldron Company begins to work on him.

John is skeptical at first, but then starts to enjoy himself at the first night fire, an outside celebration of the beginning of the giant pumpkin harvest. After drinking a special potion, the participants are able to see the curious night creatures that are attracted to their bonfire. They also can "see" the scary stories that they tell each other.

After the company's one and only pumpkin carver becomes too ill to work, a temporary panic ensues. Who is going to carve the giant pumpkins? In an unusual turn of events, a computer programmer named Gary comes to the rescue, with a high-tech system that uses a computer to help design the pumpkins and a computer-controlled robot arm to hold the tool that actually carves them.

Things go so well that, by Halloween, Jennifer and Gary fall in love. John starts to make positive changes in his life, and all look forward to the next season of giant pumpkins — and magic.

"Is ... is that you meant by a big one?" David asked, genuine fear in his voice. Everything else in the darkness had suddenly vanished, as if even the night creatures were afraid of what was slowly drifting toward them. The thing was huge, probably as big as a city bus and the same general shape. The front end was all mouth and fangs. There were three large spheres atop the massive head, giant compound eyes like those of a fly or spider. Each of the hundreds of tiny pupils sparkled pale, deathly yellow. It moved at ground level on four massive legs that reminded David of the hind legs of a Tyrannosaurus. At the end of each were enormous, sharp claws.

The sisters stood and approached the others. They motioned for them to all move down on their benches, to be closer. Then they squatted down in the charred grass stubble, Jennifer in front of the teenagers, Carol in front of the adults.

"That's definitely a big one," Jennifer answered, trying to remain calm. "In fact, it's as big as we've ever seen, and we've been at this a long, long time. What we're going to do now is join hands." She raised her right hand and joined with Carol's left. Then she reached out her left hand to John, who was at the far end of the bench. Reluctantly, the fifteen year old took hold. The others followed and quickly joined into an unbroken circle. The massive night creature drew in closer. Its scale-plated sides appeared slightly orange in the darkness, reflecting back the light of the fire.

Carol instructed, "Join now together in friendship and strength. Protect each other from the evil that lays beyond. We are strong, we have goodness, and we are not afraid. We are not afraid." Jennifer joined in, and soon so did the others in the simple chant.

...

The gigantic apparition silently drifted to within a few yards of the teenagers. Ernie's, David's, Lisa's, and Rhonda's hearts pounded as they strained their necks to look upward behind themselves. They continued to chant with the others, struggling not to be afraid.