Very excited to announce that my new book for the British Library’s Tales of the Weird series, All the Fear of the Fair: Uncanny Tales of Circus and Sideshow, is out today and available from all good book shops (and probably even some bad ones). Roll up, roll up!

Here’s a list of the 16 stories, all of which have an individual introduction (in addition to my general intro):

‘Hop-Frog’ by Edgar Allan Poe

‘Satan’s Circus’ by Eleanor Smith

‘Circus Child’ by Margery Lawrence

‘A High Dive’ by L. P. Hartley

‘Spurs’ by Tod Robbins

‘Waxworks’ by W. L. George

‘The Harlem Horror’ by Charles Birkin

‘Freak Show’ by Robert Silverberg

‘The Conjurer’ by Richard Middleton

‘The Vanishing Trick’ by Charles Davy

‘The Little Town’ by J. D. Beresford

‘The Extraordinarily Horrible Dummy’ by Gerald Kersh

‘Punch and Judy’ by Frederick Cowles

‘The Haunted Roundabout’ by ‘Simplex’

‘The Black Ferris’ by Ray Bradbury

‘The Swords’ by Robert Aickman