Longsight M40

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(50 59 67 1)>This moody and unforgettable coming-of-age novella from acclaimed author Tyler Jones is set against the eerie backdrop of a traveling Halloween fair.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(50 59 67 1)>Sixteen-year-old Clay hopes his beat-up first car will provide escape-from his parents' collapsing marriage from the bleakness of his neighborhood and from the confusion of first love. But on a misty November night he and his friends sneak into the Fright Fair a grimy retro horror carnival packed with animatronic ghouls and flickering lights. In a forgotten maintenance tent they discover an antique fortune-telling machine-an uncanny relic that should be broken but speaks with chilling clarity. What begins as a joke quickly turns ominous as the machine reveals secrets and warnings that strike too close to home.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(50 59 67 1)>As tensions rise and emotions spiral Clay is forced to confront his darkest impulses. Within four days everything will change-and not everyone will make it out. This novella asks: What do we risk when we dare to see the future?</span></p>