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A strange carnival brings terror to the population of a small midwestern town. Few American novels written this century have endured in the heart and mind, as has this one Ray Bradbury's incomparable masterwork of the dark fantastic. A carnival rolls in sometime after the midnight hour on a chill Midwestern October eve, ushering in Halloween a week before its time. A calliope's shrill siren song beckons to all with a seductive promise of dreams and...
3) The funhouse
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Once there was a girl who ran away and joined a traveling carnival. She married a man she grew to hate and gave birth to a child she could never love. A child so monstrous that she killed it with her own hands. Twenty-five years later, Ellen has a new life, a new husband, and two normal children: Joey and Amy. But their mother drowns her secret guilt in alcohol and prayer. The time has come for Amy and Joey to pay for her sins. Because Amy is pregnant....