Cooger steps on the merry-go-round a forty-year-old man, and after twenty-eight turns backward, he steps off a twelve-year-old boy. The carousel is infused with the supernatural, and it has the power to instantly transform a rider’s age in keeping with how many turns it makes either forward or backward. Dark lures and captures the souls that fuel his wicked carnival. The carousel is one of the attractions of Cooger and Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Show, and while the carnival itself represents evil within Bradbury’s novel, the carousel is the means through which Mr. Dark’s carousel symbolizes temptation within Ray Bradbury’s Something Wicked This Way Comes.
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