All the Fear of the Fair
All the Fear of the Fair
Uncanny Tales of Circus and Sideshow
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Sign in or Sign up!- Release Date: 16/10/2025
- Barcode: 9780712355094
- Genre: Fiction
- Sub-Genre: Horror
- Imprint: British Library

All the Fear of the Fair
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Uncanny Tales of Circus and Sideshow Step right up to see the enchanted Ferris wheel whose magical gifts are to die for! Marvel at the man-eating menagerie and dreadful secrets of 'Satan's Circus'! Behold the nightmare waxworks of Mrs. Groby's Chamber of Horrors! Carnivals and sideshows are settings closely entwined with the history of horror cinema, but in the realms of literature, there is a strain of uncanny fairground fiction with even deeper roots. Home to a sinister troupe of conjurers, puppeteers, beast tamers and crowds baying for blood beneath the Big Top, the performance spaces of these classic weird tales are borderlands where the unearthly meets the darker cravings of the human heart. Presenting sixteen sensational short stories, hailing from Edgar Allan Poe's 1840s through to Robert Aickman's 1960s, Edward Parnell invites you to enjoy a cavalcade of uneasy thrills courtesy of Gerald Kersh, Ray Bradbury, Margery Lawrence and many more.
From the award-nominated author of Ghostland, editor of Eerie East Anglia in the Tales of the Weird series. Exploring one of the core tropes of modern horror media popularised by IT, American Horror Story and Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked this Way Comes.
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