The Elderwood Kids

The Grinning Gallery

By: John Anthony Davis

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Beneath the rain-soaked streets of Elderwood, a new kind of nightmare is setting up its tents.

When a strange ticket appears during a relentless downpour, Milo, Tess, and Leo know something is terribly wrong. The Grinning Gallery has arrived—a traveling carnival that doesn’t trade in tickets, but in the very fabric of the self: a laugh for luck, a memory for a moment, a scream for a wish.

But this is Elderwood, a town already awake to magic and mystery. The Elderwood Kids have faced ledger-keeping monsters and reality-warping balancers. They’re not about to let a predatory carnival drain their town of its joy. Armed with their unique gifts—a connection to the living Grove, a reporter’s keen eye, and a tinkerer’s brilliant mind—they decide to fight back not with force, but with the rules of the game itself.

To win, they must empty the Carnival’s prize shelves, beat its twisted games, and face a final challenge in a hall of mirrors that feeds on hidden truths. The price of failure is the soul of their town. The cost of victory might be a piece of their own.

Step right up to a story where every feeling has a price, every game is a trap, and the only way out is to play.