A disenchanted young man, Gary signs up to be a circus hand in Venice, Florida, and discovers, much to his delight, the exciting, secret, and peripatetic life under the 'Big Top.' A first novel. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

An orphan refugee possessing the power to communicate telepathically with animals inherits a spaceship that she hopes will enable her to find the home planet of a cat-like creature with whom she has bonded.

Flora has been a circus performer all the years of her young life, and her curiosity about the outside world leads her on an adventure to see how non-circus performers live.

Spanning the years from 1884 to 1939, a unique novel in stories charts the long relationship between the Great Porter Circus and a small town in Indiana, where circus folk and small-town inhabitants mingle in a series of long-term relationships that cross into both worlds. Reprint.

Abalone, Arizona, is a sleepy southwestern town whose chief concerns are boredom and surviving the Great Depression. That is, until the circus of Dr. Lao arrives and immensely and irrevocably changes the lives of everyone drawn to its tents. Expecting a sideshow spectacle, the citizens of Abalone instead confront and learn profound lessons from the mythical made real--a chimera, a Medusa, a talking sphinx, a sea serpent, witches, the Hound of the Hedges, a werewolf, a mermaid, an ancient god, and the elusive, ever-changing Dr. Lao. The circus unfolds, spinning magical, dark strands that ensnare the town's populace: the sea serpent's tale shatters love's illusions; the fortune-teller's shocking pronouncements toll the tedium and secret dread of every person's life; sensual undercurrents pour forth for men and women alike; and the dead walk again. Dazzling and macabre, literary and philosophical, The Circus of Dr. Lao has been acclaimed as a masterpiece of speculative fiction and influenced such writers as Ray Bradbury. This Bison Frontiers of Imagination edition features a new introduction by noted fantasy writer John Marco and striking illustrations by Boris Artzybasheff from the first edition.

When his wife volunteers for a circus magician's trick and then vanishes without a trace, Alex Barton sets out to find the sinister power that has kidnapped her, a quest that leads to a job as a tightrope walker. 10,000 first printing.

Product Description: In Patti Frazee's astonishing debut novel, enchantment and illusion casually commingle with reality as the Borefsky Brothers Circus makes its way across the American Midwest in the summer of 1900. Mariana, the fortune teller, makes herself invisible and drifts through the nighttime circus, listening in on conversations and watching over her beloved Shanghai, a fire-breathing dwarf who closely guards his secrets, even from Mariana's second sight...read more

After being kicked out of college, Bailey Quinn embarks on a difficult and potentially dangerous journey through life, as a series of terrible choices take him from a job at the circus cleaning up elephant poop, to a run-in with a meth-cooking biker gang and vengeful circus freaks, to falling in love with a sexy ex-hooker in A.A. A first novel. Originally published as Serpent Girl. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

Discovering that he has a doppelgänger, Prince Halim Eddin, an ambitious Otto of Schlepsig, tired of his career with a third-rate circus, sets out for Shqiperi, where Prince Halim has been invited to become the next king, in order to assume the throne for himself, braving the perils of the ocean, monsters, pirates, and the suspicions of his new subjects along the way. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

Product Description: Synopsis: The original Buster Brown icon for Buster Brown shoes, Major Ray and his newly wed wife Jennie are the focus of a story that is both tragic and full of beautiful love. While only 36 and 37 inches tall, the couple journeyed down their chosen pat

When Edward Miller, a London tabloid newspaper editor, finds his career, his marriage, his reputation, and his security in tatters following a night of incredible stupidity and debauchery, he seeks refuge in a Florida town, populated by circus freaks and carnies, where he learns a valuable lesson in life, love, and commitment. By the author of Who's Who in Hell. Original. 25,000 first printing.

Aloysious and Lillian Binewski, the proprietors of a traveling carnival, attempt to reduce overhead by breeding their own freak show, with tragic results, in a new edition of the acclaimed cult classic. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.

Product Description: The troupe’s unravelling hopes fall on their latest and most promising recruit, Webern Bell, a sixteen-year- old hunchbacked midget devoted obsessively to perfecting the surreal clown performances that come to him in his dreams...read more

Zack Freedman has complete control and feels a sense of calm on the high wire. If only he could say the same about the rest of his life. His fellow youth circus performer and roommate, Cubby, hates him, and his aunt dumps a yappy, excitable dog on him. When a necklace is stolen during a circus performance and the victim of the theft threatens to shut down the circus, Zack is desperate to solve the mystery so he can keep his place on the wire.

Agents Scully and Mulder travel to Gibsonton, Florida, to investigate a bizarre murder among a group of circus and sideshow performers

Agents Scully and Mulder travel to Gibsonton, Florida, to investigate a bizarre murder among a group of circus and sideshow performers. Original. TV tie-in.