num_pages: 52
description: **WINNER OF THE 2013 BigAl's BOOKS AND PALS READERS' CHOICE AWARD (Best Short Story Collection/Anthology)**We've been expecting you...The morbid 100-word shorts of chaos and pure sinister evil are back in LESSONS IV: The Dead Carnival and Other Morbid Drabbles. In his latest installment of twenty-nine horrifying and darkly humorous stories author Michael Crane takes you on a trip to the carnival you'll never forget (and a trip you may not survive). Oh there will be games that cheat you out of something far more valuable than money. Rides will break down but not necessarily by accident. Nobody leaves happy. In fact nobody leaves at all.Welcome to the Dead Carnival... a place that truly lives up to its name.Features bonus drabbles/shorts by authors Daniel Pyle Robert J. Duperre Jason Letts Daniel Arenson J.L. Bryan M.S. Verish and M.P. McDonald.(Be sure to check out the other books in the series: LESSONS AND OTHER MORBID DRABBLES LESSONS II: ANOTHER MORBID DRABBLE COLLECTION and LESSONS III: DEMONIC DOLLS AND OTHER MORBID DRABBLES) 
language: English
title: LESSONS IV: The Dead Carnival and Other Morbid Drabbles
publisher: Michael Crane