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This moody and unforgettable coming-of-age novella from acclaimed author Tyler Jones is set against the eerie backdrop of a traveling Halloween fair.
Sixteen-year-old Clay hopes his beat-up first car will provide escape-from his parents' collapsing marriage, from the bleakness of his neighborhood, and from the confusion of first love. But on a misty November night, he and his friends sneak into the Fright Fair, a grimy, retro horror carnival packed with animatronic ghouls and flickering lights. In a forgotten maintenance tent, they discover an antique fortune-telling machine-an uncanny relic that should be broken, but speaks with chilling clarity. What begins as a joke quickly turns ominous as the machine reveals secrets and warnings that strike too close to home.
As tensions rise and emotions spiral, Clay is forced to confront his darkest impulses. Within four days, everything will change-and not everyone will make it out. This novella asks: What do we risk when we dare to see the future?
Tyler Jones
Tyler Jones is the author of Criterium, The Dark Side of the Room, Almost Ruth, Turn Up the Sun, Burn the Plans (an Esquire Best Horror Book of the Year), Heavy Oceans, Midas, and Night of the Glass Knives.
His work has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies including Flame Tree Press: Chilling Crime Stories, Burnt Tongues (edited by Chuck Palahniuk), Campfire Macabre, Paranormal Contact, and in Cemetery Dance, LitReactor, PsuedoPod, Tales to Terrify, and The NoSleep Podcast.
He lives in Portland, Oregon.
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