Weird Show

April, 1958

Weird ShowBefore Marshall Jenkins made his home in the Weird Show, he had found other things. Sometimes the nasal small-town newspaper people would touch their pencils against their tongues and ask, "But what? What other things? What did you do before, Mr. Jenkins?""Other things," he would repeat, showing his teeth in a mirthless smile, and if the newspaper person were a woman, she might giggle. He had a way of creating unease on all sides. It was part of the act. Marsh had a...