WELCOME TO THE GHOST SHOW

The Ghost Show is coming . . . are you ready? Three friends must face their deepest fears in this spine-tingling horror novel by USA Today bestselling author J.W. Ocker that's perfect for fans of R.L. Stine and Mary Downing Hahn.

In a town that's recently experienced a great tragedy, a so-called "Ghost Circus" arrives, promising customers a chance to meet with their recently departed, but Autumn and her friends in the Shivers Society can tell the creepy "ring leader" is up to something sinister. The fourth middle-grade novel from Edgar Award-winning author J.W. Ocker, THE GHOST CIRCUS is horror fiction for a curious crowd.

J.W. Ocker is the award-winning author of macabre travelogues, spooky kid's books, and horror novels. His nonfiction books include The New England Grimpendium and The New York Grimpendium (both Lowell Thomas Award winners), Poe-Land: The Hallowed Haunts of Edgar Allan Poe (Edgar Award winner), A Season with the Witch: The Magic and Mayhem of Halloween in Salem,
Massachusetts, and Cursed Objects: Strange But True Stories of the World's Most Infamous Items. His novels for kids include Death and Douglas, The Smashed Man of Dread End, and The Black Slide.

Ocker is also the creator of OTIS: Odd Things I've Seen (oddthingsiveseen.com), where he chronicles his visits to thousands of oddities of culture, art, nature, and history across the country and world with photos, articles, and through Odd Things I've Seen: The Podcast. His work has appeared on or in CNN.com, The Atlantic, Rue Morgue, the Boston Globe, The Guardian, TIME, and other places people stick writing. Ocker is from Maryland but has lived in New Hampshire for more than a decade. He has a wife, three daughters, and celebrates Halloween for two months.