All the Fear of the Fair

Name: All the Fear of the Fair
Brand: Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand
SKU: 9780712355094
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Uncanny Tales of Circus and Sideshow

Series: British Library Tales of the Weird

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Brief Description

Step right up to see the enchanted Ferris wheel whose magical gifts are to die for! Marvel at the man-eating menagerie and dreadful secrets of 'Satan's Circus'! Behold the nightmare waxworks of Mrs. Groby's Chamber of Horrors! Carnivals and sideshows are settings closely entwined with the... Read More

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All the Fear of the Fair

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From the award-nominated author of Ghostland, editor of Eerie East Anglia in the Tales of the Weird series. Exploring one of the core tropes of modern horror media popularised by IT, American Horror Story and Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked this Way Comes.

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Carnivals and sideshows are settings closely entwined with the history of horror cinema, but in the realms of literature, there is a strain of uncanny fairground fiction with even deeper roots. Home to a sinister troupe of conjurers, puppeteers, beast tamers and crowds baying for blood beneath the Big Top, the performance spaces of these classic weird tales are borderlands where the unearthly meets the darker cravings of the human heart.

Presenting sixteen sensational short stories, hailing from Edgar Allan Poe's 1840s through to Robert Aickman's 1960s, Edward Parnell invites you to enjoy a cavalcade of uneasy thrills courtesy of Gerald Kersh, Ray Bradbury, Margery Lawrence, and many more.

Discover the eerie underworld of carnival folklore in All the Fear of the Fair, a must-read for fans of the macabre and the strange.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780712355094

Publisher: British Library Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 16 October 2025

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: British Library Publishing

Illustration: Illustrations

Contributors:

Edited by Edward Parnell

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 130.0mm

Height: 190.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 288

Collections

Classic Fiction Fiction General Fiction Horror & Supernatural Series: British Library Tales of the Weird

About the Author

Edward Parnell is the author of the award-winning Ghostland: In Search of a Haunted Country (2019), which was shortlisted for the PEN Ackerley Prize 2020 for memoir and autobiography, as well as the Norfolk-set novel The Listeners (2014). His Tales of the Weird anthology Eerie East Anglia was one of the series' best sellers in 2024.