Fright Club: Something Wicked This Way Comes

1962 dark fantasy novel by Ray Bradbury about two 13-year-old boys, Jim Nightshade and Will Halloway, who encounter a sinister traveling carnival called Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Show. The carnival arrives in their Midwestern town of Green Town, Illinois, a week before Halloween, promising to fulfill secret desires but instead preying on the life force of its victims. The boys, with the help of Will’s father, Charles, must confront the evil of the carnival and its mysterious leader, Mr. Dark, to save themselves and the town