One of the first things that I will say about this book is. Needless to say, Cooger And Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Show is no ordinary circus…. After realising that the train belongs to the circus, they sneak out and decide to take a look. Then, at 3am, both Will and Jim are awakened by the sound of a train thundering into town, accompanied by the haunting music of a calliope. In a shop window, a block of ice with a life-like hollow in it appears. However, the people of the town start to notice adverts for a travelling circus appearing around town. After attaching it to Jim’s house, they decide to visit Will’s eccentric father who works as a caretaker in the local library.īut, as the evening draws on, the storm does not arrive. Two teenagers called Will and Jim are given a free lightning rod by a mysterious travelling salesman who tells them that lightning will strike Jim’s house when the next storm arrives. The story begins in an idyllic small American town on a gloomy October evening, a week before Halloween. This is the 2015 Gollancz (UK) paperback reprint of “Something Wicked This Way Comes” that I read.
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