Nightmare Carnival

Dark Horse Books

10956 SE Main Street

Milwaukie, OR 97222

DarkHorse.com

Cover illustration by E. M. Gist

Cover design by Justin Couch

Book design by Tina Alessi

Special thanks to Daniel Chabon, Ian Tucker, and Annie Gullion

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

Nightmare Carnival / edited by Ellen Datlow.

pages cm

Summary: “Fourteen stories by some of the most talented writers in horror, science fiction, and fantasy provide unique and uncanny looks at the tradition of the traveling carnival, its strange denizens, and its unforgettable effects on the places it stops”- Provided by publisher.

ISBN 978-1-61655-427-9 (paperback)

1. Horror tales. 2. Carnivals-Fiction. I. Datlow, Ellen, editor.

PN6071.H727N46 2014

808.83’8738-dc23

2014014043

ISBN 978-1-61655-427-9

First Dark Horse Books edition: September 2014

Printed in the United States of America

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