A string of grisly deaths in a Florida town built by retired circus sideshow performers has Mulder delighted and Scully deeply unsettled, since almost everyone they interview turns out to be hiding something stranger than the last. Humbug adapts one of the show's most famously off-kilter episodes for younger readers, mixing sideshow history with a genuinely creepy secret about who—or what—is doing the killing.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
Placement
- The X-Files Young Readers Series — #5
- contained in The X Files Omnibusomnibus
- contained in The X-Files: Triple Box Setomnibus