Which was where Will Halloway and Jim Nightshade, who would be turning 14 a day apart before and after Halloween, heard the train arriving, its ancient engine chuffing, the calliope sighing in the night. It’s a bait dangled by Cooger and Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Show, the mysterious carnival in Ray Bradbury’s “Something Wicked This Way Comes” that Stephen King called a “darkly poetic tale.” The show rolls in and sets up its ominous tents in a meadow outside Green Town, Illinois, in the dead of night a week before Halloween, arriving on a dark and silent train, a calliope playing mournful tunes that can be heard in town. The bait is hard to resist but if you bite, you’ll be trapped in a sinister nightmare you hadn’t bargained for and from which you may never wake.
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