Capp named her after the carnival-themed horror film, Nightmare Alley (1947).
Like Nightmare Alley (1947), this film tells the story of a phony spiritualist racket.
Wainwright, taking Baxter at his word, takes him to a black diamond run called "Nightmare Alley."
Twelve of them never got up again, and I began to understand how the sisters O'Toole had managed to survive in Nightmare Alley.
Nightmare Alley is a novel by William Lindsay Gresham.
Nightmare Alley was also produced as a film noir motion picture starring Tyrone Power in 1947.
One Milford man is even offering a course in defensive driving on I-95, which he describes as "Nightmare Alley."
The hoodwink-picture genre doesn't have a whole lot of peaks to choose from, but "Nightmare Alley" is one of the few.
His best-known work is Nightmare Alley (1946), which was adapted into a 1947 film starring Tyrone Power.
"This is Nightmare Alley," said the Iceman.