It started, innocuously enough, with lunch in the kitsch-yet-sinister town of Celebration, where we hoped to be lucky enough to experience a postprandial, regularly scheduled fake snowfall.
Snakes Elbowss by Deirdre Madden Orchard Books £9.99, pp224 Snakes Elbowss is Irish novelist Deirdre Madden's first book for children, set in the ordinary-but-sinister town of Woodford.
Ms. O'Connell has populated a small, sinister California town with enough suspects, motives and implements to create a "Clue -style murder sClue -styleery corner.
There are some interesting ideas here; some tasty double-crossing and sinister small-town tensions.
We'll actually miss the mad, gaunt beauties and sinister small-town ministrations of Chalons du Bois, which may be the kind of France (actually Belgium, but… you know) you seldom want to be lost in, but still had its otherly charms.
When night falls, though, that same deliberate pace becomes more sinister, as the town discloses its darker side.
Inspired by Heinrich Hoffmann's droll collection of grisly bedtime stories from the mid-19th century, "Shockheaded Peter" is both the silliest and most sinister show in town.
If you can make it across the road – through the millions of swerving, beeping tuk-tuks and mopeds – you'll find a more sinister part of town, where swarms of middle-aged Western men lurk around clubs with names like Heart of Darkness.
This enabled him to write despondent letters about how much he despised his new lodgings, and never mind the "sinister" part of town where he found himself, Kenmore Square ("part student, part slum"), whose most prominent feature was a school for embalming, or so he rarely failed to point out.
