Gideon Hackles is an old, grumpy and cold miser who runs an antique type store shop for a living. Many of the customers he sells to are poor people and many of them owe debts, therefore he treats them...poorly! However, every Halloween season he allows for the children of his debtors to trick or treat in house to find the bill slips of their parents. The lucky kid who can find the hidden debt stack of bill slips will be the lucky one that will set their family debt free. Only one by one this old man is a master of putting off spooks through his store in the form of hidden gadgets and button trickery...