![]() 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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