From the brand new York Times bestselling writer of Hounded-“an excellent urban fantasy debut” (Publishers Weekly, starred review)-comes an Iron Druid Chronicles short story in the captivating Carniepunk anthology.

The ancient Druid Atticus O’Sullivan gets a lot more than greasy corn dogs and flat soda when he visits a carnival in Kansas to which his apprentice, Granuaile, drags him. He runs across a barker having a strange power over the group: attractive women leave their guys and vanish into an unmarked tent, never to be seen again, and the males wander aside, forgetting that they ever endured girlfriends or wives. When Granuaile falls beneath the barker’s influence and enters the tent, Atticus isn’t going to forget it and proceed. He and his Irish wolfhound, Oberon, pursue her and discover the horrifying secret to the carnival’s success.