The Funhouse
Once there was a girl who ran away and joined a traveling carnival. She married a man she grew to hate—and gave birth to a child she could never love. A child so monstrous that she killed it with her own hands…Twenty-five years later, Ellen Harper has a new life, a new husband, and two normal...
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Once there was a girl who ran away and joined a traveling carnival. She married a man she grew to hate—and gave birth to a child she could never love. A child so monstrous that she killed it with her own hands…Twenty-five years later, Ellen Harper has a new life, a new husband, and two normal children—Joey loves monster movies, and Amy is about to graduate from high school. But their mother drowns her secret guilt in alcohol and prayer. The time has come for Amy and Joey to pay for her sins… Because Amy is pregnant. And the carnival is coming back to town. With a new afterword by the author
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780425250648 (0425250644)
ASIN: 0425250644
Publish date: 2013-03-05
Publisher: Berkley
Pages no: 336
Edition language: English
Classic Koontz. Both scary and creepy, it kept me turning the pages even when it bordered on cheesy. (not that there's anything wrong with cheesy)
Carny Conrad Straker has been trying to get vengeance on his ex-wife Ellen for 25 years for killing their deformed mutant child. Ellen has moved away from Pennsylvania where they met and married again. Now with two children: Amy (17) and Joey (10) she had turned to alcohol and religion to erase he...
Of all Dean's books, this one freaked me out the most...not sure why, but I usually re-read his books once or twice and this one was a one time only for me.
This book literally scared the hell out of me. I can remember watching the movie version in high school and being scared. They toned down that version from the book version..so just imagine! This is when Koontz rocked as an author..unfortunately for me at this time, he has gone down the boring and m...