Pages Torn from a Travel Journal

It's a hot day in Virginia during the Great Depression, when a bus breaks down on a lonely backwoods road. The passengers are told the repairs will take till tomorrow, so... What will they do tonight? Good fortune strikes Just down the road, there's a carnival The last man off is a writer and sightseer from Rhode Island, a man named Howard Phillips Lovecraft...

O'SLAUGHNASSEY'S TRAVELLING SHOW RIDES CONCESSIONS ODDITIES OF NATURE COME ONE, COME ALL

A genuine mermaid A living cadaver A man with three eyes There's even a girl with hands for feet Howard knows that such "spectacles" are all too often frauds, but what Howard doesn't realize is this: the carnival's frolicky fun will quickly degrade into a waking nightmare of unspeakable carnal depravity and sick-in-the-head violence beyond anything he could ever conceive. And when he finally flees the wretched scene... Something awaits him a thousand times worse.