All the Fear of the Fair
Uncanny Tales of Circus and Sideshow
$25.98
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
31 January 2026
Summary
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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780712355094 |
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| ISBN-10: | 071235509X |
| Author: | Edward Parnell |
| Publisher: | British Library Publishing |
| Imprint: | British Library Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 31 January 2026 |
| Weight: | 276g |
| Dimensions: | 32mm x 190mm x 130mm |
| Series: | British Library Tales Of The Weird |
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About The Author
Edward Parnell
Edward Parnell is the author of the award-winning Ghostland: In Search of a Haunted Country (2019), which was shortlisted for the PEN Ackerley Prize 2020 for memoir and autobiography, as well as the Norfolk-set novel The Listeners (2014). His Tales of the Weird anthology Eerie East Anglia was one of the series’ best sellers in 2024.
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