Carnival


Something Wicked This Way Comes
Caraval (Caraval, #1)
Geek Love
Legendary (Caraval, #2)
The Night Circus
Finale (Caraval, #3)
Joyland
Carnival Nightmare (Carnival #1)
Water for Elephants
Carnival Stalker (Carnival #4)
Carnival Monster (Carnival #3)
Daughter of the Burning City
The Book of Speculation
Carnival Mayhem (Carnival #6)
Carnival Master (Carnival #5)
Water for Elephants by Sara GruenThe Night Circus by Erin MorgensternThe Mermaid by Christina HenryGeek Love by Katherine DunnThe Ladies of the Secret Circus by Constance Sayers
Circus Historical Fiction
42 books — 11 voters
It by Stephen  KingDown A Dark Road by Taryn WomackWhen The Circus Came To Town by Deborah McClatcheyFloppy Shoes Apocalypse by John LedgerHeathen's Barrow by Nash Nelson
Clown Horror
51 books — 46 voters

Trick Me Twice by Becca SteeleLiberty Falls by Lee JacquotCapturing the Devil by Kerri ManiscalcoBrothers in Blood by Rory IrelandSlay Me by Jessica Wayne
Ferris Wheels on the Cover
213 books — 40 voters
Mirette on the High Wire by Emily Arnold McCullyThe Man Who Walked Between the Towers by Mordicai GersteinLouise, The Adventures of a Chicken by Kate DiCamilloWalking on Air by Kelly EastonLet the Great World Spin by Colum McCann
Walking the Tightrope
41 books — 8 voters

The Routledge Companion to Commedia dell'Arte by Judith ChaffeeScenarios Of The Commedia dell'arte by Henry F. SalernoHarlequin on the Moon by Lynne LawnerBefriending the Commedia dell'Arte of Flaminio Scala by Natalie Crohn SchmittThe Commedia dell'Arte of Flaminio Scala by Richard Andrews
Commedia dell'arte
15 books — 2 voters

Mikhail Bulgakov
Bulgakov always loved clowning and agreed with E. T. A. Hoffmann that irony and buffoonery are expressions of ‘the deepest contemplation contemplation of life in all its conditionality’. It is not by chance that his stage adaptations of the comic masterpieces of Gogol and Cervantes coincided with the writing of The Master and Margarita. Behind such specific ‘influences’ stands the age-old tradition of folk humour with its carnivalized world-view, its reversals and dethronings, its relativizing ...more
Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita

Amanda Hocking
That's when I realized the chill wasn't coming from outside—it was coming from within me. ...more
Amanda Hocking, Freeks

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