Nightmare Alley is American author William Lindsay Gresham's first and best-known work. The novel, most admired by noir fiction fans, features characters ranging from hustlers to Machiavellian femme fatales in a dark world of show business. Stan Carlisle is an ambitious 'carny' who eventually becomes a spiritualist for the rich and gullible. It appears that the world is at his feet, but not everything is as it seems.
