Since Halloween was last week I figured it would be a good time to read Something Wicked This Way Comes. Funny thing (and I didn't know this beforehand)... the book specifies a specific day in October that the story starts and that was actually the day I started reading it. The story follows two boys as they encounter a mysterious and sinister carnival that comes to their small town right before Halloween. They discover some of their secrets and soon the leader of the carnival tries to capture them.The mix of fantasy and horror was fun and I also enjoyed the theme of aging that runs throughout the book. The boys wish they could be older to experience life and the father of one of the boys wishes he could be younger so that he could interact more with his son. But of course the plot shows what would actually happen if you chose to change your age. Just like his stories in The Martian Chronicles, the fantastic elements of the story are just a cover to tell what is actually a very relate-able story. I'll give it an A.
Also, it quotes Moby Dick.
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