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Nightmare Alley / William L. Gresham ; introduction by James Smythe.

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ISBN	9781526640864 (paperback)
Name	Gresham, William Lindsay, 1909-1962 author.
Title	Nightmare Alley / William L. Gresham ; introduction by James Smythe.
Published	London : Raven Books, 2021.
Published	©1974
Description	xii, 372 pages ; 20 cm
Notes	Film tie-in.
Summary	Nightmare Alley begins with an extraordinary description of a carnival-show geek--alcoholic and abject and the object of the voyeuristic crowd's gleeful disgust and derision--going about his work at a county fair. Young Stan Carlisle is working as a carny, and he wonders how a man could fall so low. There's no way in hell, he vows, that anything like that will ever happen to him. And since Stan is clever and ambitious and not without a useful streak of ruthlessness, soon enough he's going places. Onstage he plays the mentalist with a cute assistant (before long his harried wife), then he graduates to full-blown spiritualist, catering to the needs of the rich and gullible in their well-upholstered homes. It looks like the world is Stan's for the taking. At least for now.
Subjects	Circus -- Fiction
	Carnivals -- Fiction
	Mediums -- Fiction
	Swindlers and swindling -- Fiction
	Telepathy -- Fiction
	United States -- Social conditions -- Fiction
Genre	Noir fiction
	Thrillers (Fiction)
	Horror fiction
Other Names	Smythe, James author of introduction, etc.
Added Title	Nightmare Alley (Motion picture : 2021)
Links to Related Works	Subject References: Carnivals -- Fiction . Circus -- Fiction . Horror fiction . Mediums -- Fiction . Noir fiction . Swindlers and swindling -- Fiction . Telepathy -- Fiction . Thrillers (Fiction) . United States -- Social conditions -- Fiction . See Also: Fiction . Ghost stories . Authors: Gresham, William Lindsay, 1909-1962 . Smythe, James .

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