Six from Nowhere

"My guiltiest pleasure is Harry Stephen Keeler. He may been the greatest bad writer America has ever produced. Or perhaps the worst great writer. I do not know. There are few faults you can accuse him of that he is not guilty of. But I love him." -- Neil Gaiman

Who are those six mysterious figures that are looming outside the owner''s trailer of Angus MacWhorter''s Mammoth Motorized Shows? And why ...