1. Something Wicked This Way Comes Part I: Arrivals Chapters 1-15

2. Chapter One A seller of lightening rods visits Green Town, Illinois. He sees Jim Nightshade and Will Halloway lying on the lawn in front of Will's house. His name is Tom Fury, and he helps protect houses and residents from storms. Tom Fury feels that Jim's house will be hit.

3. Chapter Two The boys are heading to the library for the evening. Jim pauses on the steps because he thinks he hears organ music. Will sees his father Charles William Halloway, the janitor in the library. Mr. Holloway says there are two types of people: white hats and black hats.

4. Chapter Three Charles Halloway thinks about Will and Jim, and thinks about how boys are different. He says Will and Jim are good representations of the types of people there are in life. Jim will see trouble coming and get out of the way. Will won’t see it and will be left dealing with the trouble.

5. Chapter Four Will and Jim run through the town, and at nine P.M. it is deserted. They see Mr. Crosetti standing outside of his barber shop. He is crying They laugh at him, and he asks them if they can smell what he can. He smells cotton candy and other carnival type food. Mr. Crosetti points out that only carnivals sell cotton candy.

6. Chapter Five Charles Halloway sees a man putting up posters inside an empty store. Halloway sees into the store where a sign advertises "Cooger & Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show." Inside there is a large block of ice, which the poster advertises as the most beautiful woman in the world. The ice sculpture looks like a hollow in the shape of a woman.

7. Chapter Six Jim stops at Hickory Street. He calls a house “The Theater”. The fifth house on the street has a window. One day the boys looked through to see people undressing. Will did not like “The Theater”, but Jim could not resist it.

8. Chapter Seven The boys see paper falling from the sky. It is an advertisement for Cooger and Dark's show, and it mentions all sorts of strange people. It mentions an illustrated man, which Jim explains is more than just a tattooed man. They realize that the carnival must be coming to town that night.

9. Chapter Eight Will wonders why his father is so sad and his mother is so happy. He feels they are always like that. He sees that his father has a carnival flier, and later, he hears his dad burn the flier. Will understands that the carnival worries his father.

10. Chapter Nine Jim Nightshade goes to bed, but his mom comes to the room. He tells her he never plans on having children or anything that can hurt him.

11. Chapter Ten The lightning-rod salesman, who is still in town, sees the woman in the ice. She symbolizes great beauty to him. He wonders what would happen if the ice melted. He steps in and the door shuts.

12. Chapter Eleven At three in the morning, Will and Jim are awakened by the sound of a train. They hear a calliope (an organ). Both boys look out at the train with binoculars and realize it must be the carnival.

13. Chapter Twelve They follow the train and see a balloon with someone in its basket. A tall man in a dark suit gets off the train and signals. Immediately afterward, people begin setting up, but they do not talk. This makes Will scared. The moon is covered by clouds, and when the darkness lifts, the tents are set up, and the field is empty. The boys run home, scared.

14. Chapter Thirteen Charles Halloway sees the carnival. On the way home, he passes the store where the lady in the ice had been. The ice has melted into water, and there are only a few shards of ice and some hair in the ice.

15. Chapter Fourteen Charles Halloway thinks that three in the morning is a special time. Three in the morning, when despair is deepest, is when the train comes.

16. Chapter Fifteen The next morning, Will and Jim head out to check out the carnival, and to their surprise, it seems normal. While walking around, they see Miss Foley, their seventh grade teacher. She is looking for her nephew, Robert, and heads off to the Mirror Maze. Will is afraid of the maze and tells her not to go in. She goes in and panics, feeling lost. The boys get her out, but she is crying. She tells them that they must go find the little girl who is lost in there.

17. Quotes To Know They left him behind in a wind that very faintly smelled of licorice and cotton candy. No carnival’s coming this late. It can’t! Three a.m…the soul’s midnight. The tide goes out, the soul ebbs. And a train arrives at an hour of despair…Why? Poor girl, oh the poor lost sweet… She looked like myself, many, many years ago.

18. For Tomorrow Study your notes for a quiz. It will focus on the Prologue up to Chapter 15. Which boy do you like better so far and why? Which would you rather have as a friend and why?