Nightmare Alley Author:William Lindsay Gresham "This driving novel surges with the color and excitement of the carnival, the riotous swarm of barkers, performers, freaks, and marks. It is the store of a young man who bludgeons his way to success by betraying the two women who love him, by stealing a fortune from the gullible and the weak-minded, by seducing the innocent into degeneracy and ... more »corruption. His calculated advance from the tent-front carny to a famous and powerful spiritualist is a fascinating study in malignancy"« less