![]() 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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