Something Wicked This Way Comes

Something Wicked This Way Comes is a 1962 novel by Ray Bradbury. It is about two thirteen-year-old boys, Jim Nightshade and William Halloway, who have a harrowing experience with a nightmarish carnival that comes to their Midwestern town one October. The carnival's leader is the mysterious "Mr. Dark" who bears a tattoo for each person who, lured by the offer to live out their secret fantasies, has become bound in service to the carnival. Mr. Dark's malevolent presence is countered by that of Will's father, Charles Halloway, who harbors his own secret desire to regain his youth.

The novel combines elements of fantasy and horror, analyzing the conflicting natures of good and evil, and on how they come into play between the characters and the carnival. Unlike many of Bradbury's other works, including the tangentially related Dandelion Wine, which are collections of loosely related short stories, Something Wicked This Way Comes can be considered a full-length novel with a consistent plot.

Something Wicked This Way Comes is one of the best books ever written.

by StellarGirl77 January 14, 2009

After the show comes the shit cart.

Old saying from WW1 used by soldiers returning to the trenches after being on leave in England

Soldier #1; Poor Tom bought it hardly a day after returning from leave in London!"

Soldier 2; " Yes, after the show comes the shit cart."

by OneWhoKnowsBetter January 24, 2020

This shit cums

When a song sounds good and you want to show how much you like it

Person 1: did you hear this new shrek all star remix, here listen to it!
Person 2: wow, this shit cums

by Nairnia February 4, 2021

cubes

Slang for the most popular type of hallucinogenic mushroom, Psilocybe Cubensis which contains Psylocibin as the active ingredient which makes one trip.

"I'm planning on buying ten grams of cubes for the weekend."

by SweeperOfDreams April 23, 2004

What comes around goes around

A person's actions, whether good or bad, will often have consequences for that person.

You kick a dog in the morning. Later that night a rabid dog bites you in the ass and you die of rabies. The neighbor who saw you kick his dog says: What comes around goes around.

by Supercords July 18, 2012

cume

the old english word for sperm

Andrew drank a fine keg of Bob's cume

by dick guzinya March 20, 2004

here comes the brick

Meaning "You will shit a brick when you hear this next thing I'm going to say."

Billy: I just watched The Sixth Sense, and you better put on your Depends because here comes the brick, Bruce Willis is dead the whole time.

Timmy: Lemme guess, you've been living under a rock for the past 10 years.

Billy: How'd you know that?

by indiancorn November 12, 2009