The Stuff of Nightmares - The New York Times<br/><br/>Something Wicked This Way Comes<br/><br/>The show crept into town late one dark October night to the eerie whine of a calliope. In the terrifying days that followed, a schoolteacher suddenly became a little girl, a rosy-cheeked boy became a wizened Methuselah, a full-grown man became a tiny dwarf...And then two boys stumbled onto the first of the secrets - the secrets of the nightmare merry-go-round that produced the grisly turnabout of human beings. But not until they actually became part of the horror did they discover the final - and blackest - mystery of all...