Carniphobia: The Wandering

During The Perigee Harvest Moon which comes in the fall, once every four years, a travelling carnival shows up in various places across small town America. The carnies wreak terror on their chosen victims, then disappear leaving witnesses and victims dead, or worse, psychologically maimed into insanity. Survival of the self and the collective is the goal of our protagonists. These stories are standalone but amalgamate into a terrifying supernatural journey into The Wandering.

The travelling carnival is the perfect trap, a disguise, like the lollypop cage of the Child Catcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. The personified carnival, Horrordrome, is the silent main antagonist of the stories. The events of the book happen around the predatorial carnival and because of it, but mostly not inside the carnival grounds, it’s cunning and stealthy in this way. When Horrordrome comes to town, strange things happen and people seem to go around the twist, losing their best judgments and impulse controls. The carnival lures its victims in with cotton candy, flashing lights, exciting rides, and games to play. Once the victims are intoxicated by their vices of sugar, sex, alcohol, drugs, and crime, the carnival has them. It consumes souls to take back to The Wandering. Over three books, our collection of unassuming and unlikely protagonists must figure out what this thing is, where its coming from and how to stop it.