Something Wicked this Way Comes

US: Gollancz, 1962. Paperback. Like New. By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes." The carnival rolls in sometime after the midnight hour of a chill Midwester n October eve. Ushering in Halloween a week before its time, a calliope's s hrill siren song beckons to all with a seductive promise of dreams and yout h regained. Young boyhood companions James Nightshade and Will Halloway are the first to heed its call. From a place of safety, they watch a midway co me to spectral life, their emotions a riot of eagerness, trepidation, brava do, and uncertainty. For they can sense the change that's in the air; that this is the Autumn in which innocence must vanish in the harsh, acrid smoke of disillusionment...and horror. Cooger & Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show has come to Green Town, Illinois, t o destroy every life touched by its strange and sinister mystery. And two i nquisitive boys standing precariously on the brink of adulthood will soon d iscover the secret of the satanic raree-show's mazes and mirrors, as they l earn all too well the heavy cost of wishes and the stuff of nightmares. All those who still dream and remember--and those who have heard the whispering but have yet to experience its dark, poetic power--you are welcome. A shadow show like none other is about to begin...again.