The narrative is a bit loose at times, but it all comes together in the end in an epic showdown of evil and eviler.
Elliot let it spend enough time in the oven before serving it to his guests. It starts out as a nasty bit of work, but eases into a more slapstick style of violence as it progresses.
It has been compared to both, but is more Stephen King than David Lynch. This is not a well-dressed man who knows where your cute butt is hiding ; it is a gaggle of lobotomized Frank Booths in face paint hunting you down.
The Pilo Family Circus is a horror novel by Will Elliott. Contents. 1 Background; 2 Plot; 3 References; 4 External links. Background[edit]. The Pilo Family. The Pilo Family Circus has ratings and reviews. Shelby *trains flying monkeys* said: A book about psychotic clowns? I couldn't resist that one!.
And, oh yeah- those psychos just may have been the catalyst behind the holocaust. While certainly not high literature, Circus is fun as hell and damned imaginative at times. Unless you suffer from acute coulrophobia, you just might enjoy a trip to this circus.
Joshua Chaplinsky writes reviews for Twitch Film. He also maintains his own blog at http: Skip to main content. Send in the muthafuckin' clowns.
The execution was not. He then makes a stupendous error in judgment when he spies on some nefarious clown activities late one evening and retrieves a small bag one of them discards and brings it home with him. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. El final sorprendente donde criaturas y mounstruos son los principales elementos del conflicto. His ingestion of some of the beads gets him visited by three ruthless clowns who vandalize his apartment and leave him a message informing him he has 30 hours to pass his audition or he forfeits his life. No longer young men, they have little left in common and tensions
As the silent-film star Lon Chaney is supposed to have said, there's nothing funny about a clown in the moonlight. The next day it happens again, but this time there are three of them: The day after that, they wreak havoc in Jamie's house.
Amid the wreckage, Jamie finds a card addressed "For a Special Guy", and inside it the message: You better pass it, feller. You're joining the circus. Ain't that the best news you ever got?
Will Elliott's first novel taps into an established tradition born out of coulrophobia, or fear of clowns. From the murderous jester of commedia dell' arte to the sadistic Pennywise in Stephen King's It, the masked man with the false grin is both a reliable bogey man and a subversive social critic. Elliott's clowns are as unnerving as they come, but their weirdness is more than just an act: Reached via a Portaloo portal, it floats in a dark cellar of the universe, right next door to hell.
From there, it lures unsuspecting "tricks" - "regular types who eat pies, watch football and breed" - before milking them of their souls.
In charge of this operation is Kurt Pilo, a seven-foot giant with talons who likes to snack on teeth as if they were popcorn.