About The Author
Will Elliott is the author of The Pilo Family Circus, which won five literary wards including the Golden Aurealis. He was named as one of the Sydney Morning Herald's Best Young Novelists. His novels has been published in the UK, US, Germany, Italy and Sweden.
Will lives in Australia.
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Other Books by Will Elliott
The Pilo Family Circus
Pilgrims Shadow
World's End
Nightfall
Inside Out
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Praise for Will Elliott
"I couldn't put Elliott's novel down. It's fantastic . . . An entertaining mixture of Palahniuk and David Lynch."
—Independent on Sunday
"Inventive, scary and darkly humorous novel has a dash of Stephen King and a hint of Lovecraft but is really sui generis. It may be a true one-off but that doesn't stop me wanting more."
—Observer
"As much surreal poetry as macabre thrills . . . this is a first novel of real promise. At his best, Elliott writes with a power commensurate with the originality of his vision. It is not just that he has unusually nasty visions to put on the page but he has the ability to make us share them."
—TLS
"Elliott's clowns are as unnerving as they come."
—The Guardian
"A bravura performance, a disquieting glimpse into a richly imagined and horribly plausible parallel universe."
—Financial Times
"Dark, wickedly inventive comedy . . . Awesome."
—Maxim
"An astonishing book which combines vicious slapstick and relentless black comedy with a breathtakingly vivid, visual style . . . riotous gore-fest which is immensely entertaining, often hilarious and contains not a little pathos. Completely unforgettable."
—Tangled Web
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The Pilo Traveling Show is work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author's imagination or are used in an absolutely fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons—living or dead—is entirely coincidental.
Copyright
© 2015 Will Elliott
All rights reserved, which means that no portion of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the express written permission of the publisher.
This is U021, and it has an ISBN of 978-1-63023-008-1.
This book was printed in the United States of America, and it is published by Underland Press, an imprint of Resurrection House (Puyallup, WA).
This clown, he had seen it somewhere before . . .
Edited by Mark Teppo
Cover Design by Darin Bradley
Book Design by Aaron Leis
First Underland Press edition: October 2015.
www.resurrectionhouse.com
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