Nightmare Alley by William Lindsay Gresham

Nightmare Alley

William Lindsay Gresham with Nick Tosches

275 pages first pub 1946 (editions)

fiction crime mystery dark mysterious reflective slow-paced
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Nightmare Alley begins with an extraordinary description of a freak-show geek—alcoholic and abject and the object of the voyeuristic crowd’s gleeful disgust and derision—going about his work at a county fair. Young Stan Carlisle is working as a ca...

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