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Shadows in the night, the mists may lift yet things remain in never ending darkness for evil is always around the next corner, hidden but there. Green Town (Waukegan, Illinois) the writer's birthplace a small unimportant, quiet burg outside of Chicago. Dull, in perpetual slumber, townspeople walk slowly as nothing ever happens to excite, life just goes on and on until it doesn't...October weather, Halloween nears, a strange, sinister, touring carnival sneaks in the gloom to a nearby vacant field
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I have not read this before and I have never seen the movie. My sister swears it is a very scary movie, but she scares easily. I enjoyed this book and thought it left a lot of room for great discussion. I would love to be able to discuss this book with a group of people of all ages. I mean, who hasn't wished to be another age? I feel like there was a little bit of moral judgement by not including any "good" characters who played with their age on a long term basis. Really, is it that wrong? Is i
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