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One Buck Horror presents five chilling tales from five of today's most up-and-coming horror authors.
"Jenny's House" is a great place to play, but an unexpected playmate makes for a dark session of show-and-tell.
Three kids seek to steal from a traveling carnival and get more than they bargained for in "A Lullaby for Caliban"
In "The Last Nephew", Nephew yearns to be free of Uncle's depredations, but when Uncle leaves his pocket watch behind one night, it gives him the key to his escape.
Crossing "The Cornfield" is harrowing on the best of winter nights, but this night, Jack turns to see eyes in the darkness, and knows that something is following him...
In "The Ginger Men", mother is baking a special ingredient into a treat for father, an ingredient that gives her pie dough a life of its own.
Featuring stories by Ada Hoffmann, Julie Jansen, Mark Onspaugh, Mike Trier, and Elizabeth Twist.
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by Mark Onspaugh
It seemed to take forever for Carson & Bloch’s Traveling Carnival and Curiosities to shut down for the night.
Finally, about 2 a.m., the last trailer went dark. A portly guard occasionally patrolled the grounds, but mostly slept in a folding chair near the entrance.
On the outskirts of Adlai Meadows, three shapes emerged from behind a small hillock and crept silently toward the sleeping carnival.
Kirby Owens, who was eleven, wished that the tall grass was still there to offer cover, but it had been trampled underfoot over the last three days. He looked over at his big brother Ty, who was fifteen and seemed to know everything. Ty had just gotten a wicked cool tattoo that their parents knew nothing about, a heart on his upper bicep with the name Mary Jo.
The third kid was Ty’s friend Randy Herskovic, who was big for his age and had a crew cut that he continually scratched.
The boys slipped past a row of chemical toilets that stood like silent sentries. Beyond these were the thrill rides, their screams silenced, the lingering odor of puke and adrenaline still hanging in the air: the Hammer, the Dizzy Disk, the Zipper and the Typhoon. Their strange shapes loomed like the skeletons of prehistoric beasts. Kirby was particularly nervous edging past the Tilt-a-Whirl, because its clamshell cars looked like giant crabs in the dim
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