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Nightmare Alley / William L. Gresham ; introduction by James Smythe.
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9781526640864 (paperback)
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Gresham, William Lindsay, 1909-1962
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Nightmare Alley / William L. Gresham ; introduction by James Smythe.
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London : Raven Books, 2021.
©1974
Description
xii, 372 pages ; 20 cm
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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.
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Nightmare Alley (Motion picture : 2021)
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Carnivals -- Fiction
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Circus -- Fiction
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Horror fiction
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Mediums -- Fiction
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Noir fiction
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Swindlers and swindling -- Fiction
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Telepathy -- Fiction
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Thrillers (Fiction)
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United States -- Social conditions -- Fiction
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Fiction
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Ghost stories
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Gresham, William Lindsay, 1909-1962
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Smythe, James
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