'The novel is packed with wonderful fantasy ideas and prose. riotous gore-fest which is immensely entertaining, often hilarious and contains not a little pathos. 'An astonishing book which combines vicious slapstick and relentless black comedy with a breathtakingly vivid, visual style. 'This sadistic world makes for one highly enjoyable read, especially for all of you out there who delight in the nightmarishly macabre.' The Pilo Family Circus: .uk: Will Elliott: 9781847240217: Books Literature & Fiction Contemporary Fiction Buy used £1.72 £2. 'A bravura performance, a disquieting glimpse into a richly imagined and horribly plausible parallel universe.' this intriguing book mixes fantasy with psychological horror to squirming effect.' 'Will ElliottÕs prose is sharp and engaging. He brings a stylistic restraint to the depiction of horrors.' 'This is territory where few Australian novelists have ventured, let alone with ElliottÕs disquieting composure. I was enjoying reading this book so much I forgot I was meant to review it.' the plot is full of wonderful grotesqueries and unfolds at a cracking pace. 'An excellently coherent act of imagination. will appeal and appall in equal measure.' 'A darkly disreputable combination of horror, fantasy, thriller and gross-out humour. 'ElliottÕs clowns are as unnerving as they come.' It is not just that he has unusually nasty visions to put on the page but he has the ability to make us share them.' At his best, Elliott writes with a power commensurate with the originality of his vision. 'As much surreal poetry as macabre thrills.

It may be a true one-off but that doesnÕt stop me wanting more.' 'Inventive, scary and darkly humorous novel has a dash of Stephen King and a hint of Lovecraft but is really sui generis. An entertaining mixture of Palahnuik and David Lynch.' When he applies the white face paint, he is transformed into JJ, the most vicious clown of all. Yet, in this place-peopled by the gruesome, grotesque, and monstrous-where violence and savagery are the norm, Jamie finds that his worst enemy is himself. Delivered by a trio of psychotic clowns, this ultimatum plunges Jamie into the horrible alternate universe that is the centuries-old Pilo Family Circus, a borderline world between hell and earth from which humankind's greatest tragedies have originated.

The Pilo Family Circus by Will Elliott