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Dan Chaon’s new horror fantasy, ‘One of Us,’ follows clairvoyant orphan twins who join a circus.

The novel features a relentless, ax-murdering antagonist inspired by a real-life killer.

The author will sign copies of his novel at Loganberry Books in Shaker Heights on Oct. 9.

“I have a sort of Ark,” says Mr. Jengling, a kind of father figure in “One of Us,” Cleveland Heights author Dan Chaon ’s magnificent new horror fantasy. ”Do you know the story of Noah’s Ark?”

He is talking to Eleanor and Bolt, 13-year-old orphan twins he has acquired from a notorious Orphan Train, a program that transported such children on western-bound trains to be adopted by midwestern farmers to be beloved family members or, just as likely, to be indentured servants.

Their setup happens

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