![]() ![]() ![]() When the two men meet again at a public house in the city’s seediest district, all prejudice falls away. Much to his chagrin, Will is beguiled as well. So it’s understandable that Will Marchman, a young patent-medicine salesman, is wary when Perfidor approaches his stand and begins asking questions. They’re all Branded Mongrels, and they’re officially shunned. He’s Fanule Perfidor, commonly known as the Dog King, and he isn’t welcome at the Circus. ![]() But a shadow is cast there one day by a tall, cloaked figure striding down the boardwalk and behaving in a most eccentric way - a man with strange eyes and strange ears and a mark at the base of his throat. Hunzinger’s Mechanical Circus, a rollicking seaside carnival where imagination meets machinery, seems like the only bright spot in the dreary city of Purinton. Why did I read it: I ‘ve been intrigued by the summary and also the cover for quite some time now. I was able to pick an e-book as my prize for the March round-up of the 2012 Horror/Thriller Reading Challenge run by Mary over at Sweeping Me. This is the one I chose. ![]()
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