Detective Pulp Series / The Freak Show Murders / Fredric Brown /

Set in the shadowy surroundings of a traveling carnival with its own freaks, waxworks, and crooks, Brown’s story combines the secret world of Tod Browning’s movie Freaks with elements of brutal murder, robbery, and suspense to create a riveting genre piece steeped in unsettling and grotesque. This 1942 novel, a spiraling descent into bloody murder, psychosis, mind control and hallucination.