The Darker Carnival

Come one, come all! Step right up to the terrors that stalk the midway.The Markhat Files, Book 9When Dark’s Diverse Delights arrives by night to set up shows and rides that promisefun and excitement for one and all, the outskirts of Rannit begin to look disturbingly likethe nightmares that plague Markhat’s sleep.Mama Hog has sent him a new client, a cattle rancher with a missing daughter. Markhat’ssearch reveals genuine terrors lurking amidst the carnival’s tawdry sideshows, where Deathitself takes the main stage every evening, just past midnight.The orchestrator of the murderous, monstrous mayhem is the mysterious carnivalmaster, Ubel Thorkel. And after Buttercup the Banshee is threatened, Markhat is in a raceagainst time to find the carnival’s dark heart and strike it down once and for all—or dietrying.Warning: Left unattended, this book is prone to rotate corn crops, eschew oral hygiene,engage in long-distance artillery exchanges with remaindered copies of C.S Lewis’s “TheChronicles of Narnia”, and provide unwelcome commentary during rush-hour traffic.Readers are advised to exercise extreme caution during vertical take-off and landing ofHarrier fighter jets, because that’s just basic common sense. At no point should this bookbe considered a substitute for professional medical advice or paprika. Especially paprika.

The Markhat Files Series, book nine