Dark’s business partner, rides on the carnival’s broken carousel in reverse with Chopin’s “Funeral March” playing backwards, the middle-aged man transforms into a boy of twelve.
Will and Jim stare in disbelief as the musical instrument “wails” with no one at the keyboard, chilled and entranced by what appears to be a supernatural event unfolding right before their eyes. As the carnival pulls into town, a railcar hauls a mysterious calliope that appears to be playing by itself. Dark and his side show freaks rely on the supernatural to threaten Green Town, and they actively terrorize the people. The carnival itself further becomes an allegory for fear of the unknown, and it’s only by facing that fear-by effectively accepting that certain things cannot be explained or understood-that it can be defeated. Dark head on and confronts his fears that he can finally defeat the evil of the traveling carnival, and it is in this way that Bradbury effectively argues that fear only has as much power as individuals grant it.
But…Nothing? Where do you hit it?…So the carnival just shakes a great croupier’s cupful of Nothing at us, and reaps us as we tumble back head-over-heels in fright.” It is only after Charles faces Mr. According to Will’s father, Charles, “the carnival wisely knows we’re more afraid of Nothing than we are of Something. Dark and the carnival rely on the town’s natural fear of the unknown, using seemingly unexplainable-and, the thinking goes, unstoppable-supernatural elements to terrorize the town. When Cooger and Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Show arrives, it is not long before a palpable dread blankets the entire town. Will Halloway and Jim Nightshade’s own names reflect this spooky holiday, which also happens to be Jim’s birthday (Will, for his part, was born just one minute before Halloween). Something Wicked This Way Comes begins just one week before Halloween, and the novel is fittingly pervaded by a sense of fear and filled with references to the supernatural.
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