*** A MASTERPIECE OF FANTASY ***
SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES

A chilling novel
of fascinating evil by
the author of
A MEDICINE FOR MELANCHOLY
and THE ILLUSTRATED MAN

RAY BREADBURY

Cooger & Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show crept into town late one night to the errie whine of a calliope.  In the fearful days that followed, a schoolteacher suddenly became a little girl, a rosy-cheeked boy became a wizened Methuselah, a full-grown man became a tiny dwarf.  It was Jim and Will, two thirteen-year-old school boys, who first stumbled onto the grisly secrets of the Show - the sinister merry-go-round, the wax museum of living people, the strange mirror that stole souls.  But it was not until they had actually become part of the evil seductions that they discovered the most awful secret of all...