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Anyone unfamiliar with the term “geek” should seek out and read William Lindsay Gresham’snow-classic 1946 novel, NIGHTMARE ALLEY, for the most chillingly accurate description ever set intype. She had brought these beaststo heel. ” Valerie was a minorfolk heroine. The faces of theother actors distorted in ghastly expectation of the impact.

But that night in 1892 she slept a deep,sweet, recuperative and dreamless sleep. “Doe-lahr, Señor,” he urged, “doe-lahr!” I shook my head no. The gong was still clanging overhead somewhere,and he was breathless from a journey he had just taken. He came at her in fumbling, hurtling steps, arms wide and eyes rolling, throwing spittle like aracehorse; Annie realized he’ d fall across the cart and smash her flat in another two steps.