The Peabody- Ozymandias Traveling Circus & Oddity Emporium

"The troupe. The freak show. People with green skin, white skin, furry skin, reptile hide, no eyes, extra eyes, no digits, extra digits, people with visions, with no visions, with one face, with two faces. A gathering to give many a towner nightmares for life. But to Oz, they were beautiful. Because they were kin. Brother and sister were not forms of address he took lightly. Truly kin. For they shared a common parent, a third parent that had left an indelible imprint on their genes. The Otherness. Each had been touched by the Otherness. And so begins a hunt ... for the pieces of a Device, a Contraption, a Thing-a-ma-jig. Call it what you will, it has power ... it straddles the worlds -- the one we know and another we cannot see. What it will do when reassembled, only Oz knows. But the completed Device, activated in the right place at the proper time will change everything -- make up down, and down up ... freaks normal, and normals freaks. Hop aboard. The Oddity Emporium leaves soon. You want to join. You need to join. You'd damn well better join."--Page 4 of cover