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The Troupe

by Robert Jackson Bennett

Dark FantasyHistorical FantasyMythic Fantasy
Published 1960 Pages 389 ~6h Audience Adult Heat 🔥🔥 Pacing Slow-burn Magic Soft
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Darkness Level 4 — Dark
Violence, trauma and morally harsh outcomes

Synopsis

George Carole ran away from home to join the Vaudeville circuit. Sixteen years old, uncommonly gifted at the piano, he falls in with a strange troupe - even for Vaudeville. Under the watchful eye of the enigmatic figure of Silenus, George comes to realise that the members of the troupe are more than they appear to be. And their travels have a purpo…

Tropes

Coming of AgeOutcast HeroFound FamilyMentor FigureHidden Society

Awards

★ Locus Nominee

Tone

MysteriousDark & SeriousWhimsical

Content Warnings

sexual-contentgraphic-violencechild-deathabusesexual-assaulttorturesuicidepsychological-trauma

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