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The Obsidian Carnival
Paperback
Series: The Forgotten Towns, Book 2
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Oct 2 2025
Pages: 470
Weight: 1.24
Height: 1.17 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Seventeen years ago, something took Evelyn Reed's sister.
Now it has come back.
A carnival appears overnight on Oakhaven's abandoned fairgrounds-brilliant lights, joyous music, and a beauty that feels profoundly wrong. While the town is lulled into awe, Evelyn hears what others can't: a grinding hum layered with distant screams. This isn't a fair. It's a living organism, vast and intelligent, feeding on flesh and memory alike.
As people vanish, Evelyn follows the truth into the carnival's twisting rides and pulsing corridors, armed with forbidden research and occult science. Every attraction is part of the creature's anatomy. Every step draws her deeper into something that digests the living and reshapes them into itself.
But the deeper she goes, the clearer one truth becomes-
The carnival remembers her.
And it didn't come to Oakhaven by accident.
This novel will appeal to readers who enjoy:
The cosmic dread and small-town horror of Stephen King
The unsettling, reality-warping terror of H.P. Lovecraft
Living, biological nightmares in the vein of Clive Barker
Dark, immersive horror with strong psychological and body-horror elements
Stories where the monster is vast, intelligent, and unknowable
- By the author of Stairway to Darkness and many others -
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