Midnight Under the Big Top: Tales of Murder, Madness, and Magic
edited by Brian James Freeman
Cover artwork by Ben Baldwin
Interior Illustrations by Glenn Chadbourne
About the Book:
Venture inside Midnight Under the Big Top, where your wide eyes and pounding heart will discover:
• the world's grandest tales of murder, madness, and magic set in and around the circus by renowned storytellers such as Stephen King, Joe Hill, Ray Bradbury, Richard Matheson, Neil Gaiman, Kelley Armstrong, Robert McCammon, Tananarive Due, Lisa Morton, Heather Graham, Richard Chizmar, Billy Chizmar, Amanda C. Davis, Nayad Monroe, Jeff Strand, Amanda Downum, Robert Brouhard, and Dominick Cancilla!
• the World's First-Ever Poetry Intermission featuring Norman Prentiss, G.O. Clark, Marge Simon, Bruce Boston, Robert Payne Cabeen, David E. Cowen, Alessandro Manzetti, Christina Sng, Stephanie M. Wytovich, K.A. Opperman, Ashley Dioses, and Terri Adamczyk!
• and for the grand finale, Josh Malerman, author of the New York Times bestseller Bird Box, will introduce you to Dandelion Andrews, a very unusual man who hasn't seen daylight in three months because he's digging a hole destined to become a most unusual carnival house of horrors!
These death-defying tales aren't for the faint of heart, but they are perfect for the long lost child deep inside of you who instinctively understands you should never trust a circus clown.
Welcome to the dark side of various carnivals and traveling circuses.
Midnight Under The Big Top is a feast for the senses, featuring gorgeous artwork, dark poetry, grim stories, and one novella.
Some of the stories were familiar to me. I'm not sure if I have read them elsewhere but I did see Joe Hill's Twittering From The Circus of The Dead on tv when it was made into one of my favorite episodes of Creepshow. The classic story The Black Ferris by Ray Bradbury is included which was later turned into Something Wicked This Way Comes, and also an episode of the tv series Ray Bradbury Theater.
Excited kids blow off their last day of school when the carnival comes to town in The Girl In The Carnival Gown by Kelly Armstrong There's something more wild and twisty than a roller coaster going on in this one.
Josh Malerman's novella Dandy is a dark and claustrophobic tale of a girl who wishes she had not gone into the fun house alone. It had me nearly hyperventilating.
All this and more awaits you at Midnight Under The Big Top.
Grab your tickets and get in line
4 out of 5 stars
My thanks to Cemetery Dance
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