A star-studded urban illusion anthology starring bestselling authors Rachel Caine, Jennifer Estep, Kevin Hearne, Seanan McGuire, and Rob Thurman, and including Delilah S. Dawson, Kelly Homosexual, Tag Henry, Hillary Jacques, Jackie Kessler, Kelly Meding, Allison Pang, Nicole D. Peeler, and Jaye Wells, whose stories explore the creepy, incomprehensible, and, yes, sometimes magical world of journeying carnivals.

Come one, arrive all! The Carniepunk Midway claims you every excitement and chill a traveling carnival about Carniepunk can offer. But fear not really! Urban fantasy’s biggest stars are here to guide you through this strange and dangerous world . .

RACHEL CAINE’s vampires aren’t child’s play, like a naïve teenager discovers when her center leads her far, much astray in “The Cold Lady.” With “Parlor Techniques,” JENNIFER ESTEP pits Gin Blanco, the Elemental Assassin, against the Wheel of Death and some dangerously creepy clowns. SEANAN McGUIRE narrates a poignant, ethereal story of a mysterious carnival that earnings to a dangerous town after two decades in “Child of the Midway, the Mermaid, and the Open, Lonely Ocean.” KEVIN HEARNE’s Iron Druid and his wisecracking Irish wolfhound discover in “The Demon Barker of Wheat Street” that the impossibly wholesome sounding Kansas Whole wheat Festival is actually not a healthy place to go out. With an eerie, unstable twist, ROB THURMAN reveals the destiny of the psychopath stalking two youthful carnies in “Painted Love.”