Carnival


Something Wicked This Way Comes
Caraval (Caraval, #1)
Geek Love
Legendary (Caraval, #2)
The Night Circus
Finale (Caraval, #3)
Joyland
Water for Elephants
Daughter of the Burning City
The Book of Speculation
Carnival Nightmare (Carnival #1)
Carnival Stalker (Carnival #4)
Hollow Hellion (The Hollows Trilogy, #1)
Carnival Monster (Carnival #3)
No Place to Hide (Havoc's Playground, #1)
Madball by Fredric BrownNightmare Alley by William Lindsay GreshamGuidance to Death by Daniel V. Meier Jr.Carny Kill by Robert Edmond AlterJoyland by Stephen  King
Carny Noir
6 books — 3 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
214 books — 41 voters

The Teller of Small Fortunes by Julie LeongThe Adventurous Summer by Mabel Esther AllanMortimer's Portrait on Glass by Joan AikenThe Diddakoi by Rumer GoddenCharley by Joan G. Robinson
Gypsy Caravan - Vardo - Romani Wagon
64 books — 5 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

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

Ray Bradbury
So the carnival steams by, shakes ANY tree: it rains jackasses.
Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes

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

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Hideous Souls (An Occult Roleplay) Norville Wheelwright's Traveling Sideshow Though considered entertainment by the common cro…more
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Carnival of Souls This is a dark carnival, full of performers, freaks, and secrets. The reason you are here is bec…more
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