The Obsidian Carnival

Seventeen years ago, something took Evelyn Reed's sister.
Now it has come back.

A carnival appears overnight on Oakhaven's abandoned fairgrounds-brilliant lights, joyous music, and a beauty that feels profoundly wrong. While the town is lulled into awe, Evelyn hears what others can't: a grinding hum layered with distant screams. This isn't a fair. It's a living organism, vast and intelligent, feeding on flesh and memory alike.

As people vanish, Evelyn follows the truth into the carnival's twisting rides and pulsing corridors, armed with forbidden research and occult science. Every attraction is part of the creature's anatomy. Every step draws her deeper into something that digests the living and reshapes them into itself.

But the deeper she goes, the clearer one truth becomes-

The carnival remembers her.
And it didn't come to Oakhaven by accident.

• The cosmic dread and small-town horror of Stephen King

• The unsettling, reality-warping terror of H.P. Lovecraft

• Living, biological nightmares in the vein of Clive Barker

• Dark, immersive horror with strong psychological and body-horror elements

• Stories where the monster is vast, intelligent, and unknowable
  
  - By the author of Stairway to Darkness and many others -