Tom Reamy Boeken

Set against the backdrop of a sweltering summer, a traveling show arrives in a small Kansas town, introducing an atmosphere filled with both enchantment and dread. The arrival of Haverstock's Traveling Curiosus and Wonder Show promises to captivate the townspeople, but it also harbors mysterious and potentially dangerous secrets that could change their lives forever. The juxtaposition of wonder and fear creates a gripping narrative that explores the impact of spectacle on a community.

A thirteen year old girl unleashes a murderous nightmare on a small Kansas town.A Hollywood policeman sacrifices a strange and beautiful young man for his own dark needs but finds himself the victim.Horror comes to a sheltered mountain village - but from within, in the form of its own savage children who attack and devour in swarms.The last people on Earth are mature at 5, bear children at 8, and are usually dead by 30.These and other haunting visions come from the imagination of John W Campbell Award winner Tom Reamy. A transplanted Texan who lived in Kansas City (and later Independence, Missouri) before his premature death in November, 1977, Tom sent the science fiction and fantasy world reeling with such tales as "Twilla", "Under the Hollywood Sign", "Beyond the Cleft", "Dinosaurs", and the unforgettable Nebula Award-winning "San Diego Lightfoot Sue."He was a writer with an extraordinary understanding of the dark things that walk in daytime as well as the light that shines despite deepening shadows. Whether he was writing about a young man's coming of age or life at the end of the world, he brought not only a sense of realism to his stories but a transcendent beauty and sensitivity. Within these pages you will find terror and love, desire and innocence, dreams and death, as only Tom Reamy could present them.

Dreams turn to terror One summer day in the 1920s, Haverstock's Traveling Circus and Wondershow rides into a small Midwestern town. Haverstock's show is a presentation of mysterious wonders: feats of magic, strange creatures, and frightening powers. Three teenage girls attend the opening performance that evening, which, for each, promises love and threatens death. The three girls are drawn to the show and its performers--a lusty centaur, Angel the magical albino boy, the rowdy stage hands--but frightened by the enigmatic owner, Haverstock. The girls at first try to dismiss these marvels as trickery, but it becomes all too real, too vivid to be other than nightmarish reality. Each feels the force of the show and its power to alter everyday lives: Francine is drawn embarrassingly to the centaur; Rose makes an assignation with one of the hands and gets in trouble; and Evelyn is fascinated by the pathetic, mysterious Angel, and together they plan escape.

Tom Reamys einziges Buch erinnert an Ray Bradburys "Das Böse kommt auf leisen Sohlen" und wird oft mit ihm verglichen. Es zeichnet sich durch subtile Spannung und psychologische Beschreibungen aus.