March Horror Book Club: Freakslaw by Jane Flett
Schedule
Wed, 18 Mar, 2026 at 06:15 pm
UTC-05:00Location
302 A Jefferson Street, Lafayette, LA, United States, Louisiana 70501 | Lafayette, LA
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Horror Book Club at CHB Lafayette is reading *Freakslaw* by Jane Fleet! We’ll gather at 6:15 p.m. on March 18 at the store to chat about this traveling carnival of troublemakers who arrive in a small Scottish town to perform their favorite pastime: revenge.
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Synopsis:
It is the summer of '97 and the repressed Scottish town of Pitlaw is itching for change.
Enter the Freakslaw--a travelling carnival of deviant queers and architects of mayhem. There's Gloria, fortune teller and worm charmer; her daughter Nancy, a contortionist witch; big-hearted tightrope walker, Werewolf Louie; not to mention illusionists and conjoined twins, Cass and Henry, and tattooed human pincushion, the Pin Gal. Against Pitlaw's miserably grey landscape, the carnival shines electric and bright, and it doesn't take long for the town's teenagers to be seduced by its neon charms and the possibility of escape.
But beneath it all, these newcomers are harboring a darker desire: revenge. Revenge for being cast out, never allowed to settle, punished for purely existing. And as tensions reach fever pitch between the stoic, unwelcoming locals and the dazzling intruders, a violence that has been bubbling for centuries is about to be unleashed . . .
Katherine Dunn's Geek Love meets Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus in this sizzling debut by a writer as captivating as she is incisive, as wild as she is precise. Read this and try not to run away with the Freakslaw. Go on. We dare you.
Horror Book Club is CHB Lafayette's bimonthly book club focusing on horror and dark stories! Ashley, a CHB Bookseller, leads the discussion, and we vote at our meetings for our upcoming monthly picks.
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