Something Wicked This Way Comes (novel)

Something Wicked This Way Comes (1962) is a novel by Ray Bradbury. It is about two boys, named Jim Nightshade and William Halloway, who have an unpleasant experience with a nightmarish carnival that comes to their Midwestern town one October. The mysterious and sinister carnival is presided over by Mr. Dark, a man who bears a tattoo for every person who, enticed by the offer of living out one's secret fantasies, has become part of the show ? many unwillingly. Countering Mr. Dark's malevolent presence is Will's father, who finds his own life force tempered by middle-age melancholy.

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