Abalone, Arizona, is a sleepy southwestern town whose chief concerns are boredom and surviving the Great Depression--that is, until the Circus of Dr.
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Michael Martone is a professor of English at the University of Alabama and the author or editor of numerous books, including Double-Wide: Collected Fiction of Michael Martone.
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About the Author: Charles G.
Lao has been acclaimed as a masterpiece of speculative fiction and influenced such writers as Ray Bradbury.
Dazzling and macabre, literary and philosophical, The Circus of Dr.
The Circus unfolds, spinning magical, dark strands that ensnare the town\'s populace: the sea serpent\'s tale shatters love\'s illusions; the fortune-teller\'s shocking pronouncements toll the tedium and secret dread of every person\'s life; sensual undercurrents pour forth for men and women alike; and the dead walk again.
Lao himself.
Expecting a sideshow spectacle, the citizens of Abalone instead confront and learn profound lessons from the mythical made real--a chimera, a Medusa, a talking sphinx, a sea serpent, witches, the Hound of the Hedges, a werewolf, a mermaid, an ancient god, and the elusive, ever-changing Dr.
Lao arrives and immensely and irrevocably changes the lives of everyone drawn to its tents.
Abalone, Arizona, is a sleepy southwestern town whose chief concerns are boredom and surviving the Great Depression--that is, until the Circus of Dr
