The Vermilion Carnival & Other Horrors

In The Vermilion Carnival & Other Horrors, R. Dell Walker assembles a dark mosaic of American fear—pieced together from backwoods superstition, rusted relics, and things best left unsaid. From a cursed carnival that leaves more than sawdust and screams in its wake to sunken towns drowning in mud and memory, these nine tales drag horror from the hidden corners of American life and into the light—where its true face is finally revealed. • A drifting carnival takes root on a dying farm, offering wonders no one can afford. • A yellow raincoat refuses to let go of the man who found it. • A Cold War discovery beneath an Arizona mesa gnaws at the walls of reality. • A pulp magazine begins printing the buried crimes of a man who thought he’d outrun them. If the Americana terrors of Ray Bradbury haunt your dreams, if the folkloric dread of T.E.D. Klein lingers in your bones, and if the backwoods madness of Manly Wade Wellman calls to you from the trees, you’ll find something to fear in The Vermilion Carnival & Other Horrors.