Magnus Eisengrim, the illustrious magician star of a movie being filmed in Switzerland, spends his free time relating the sad story of his life to his director and producer, a cameraman, a mysterious hostess, and a Canadian schoolmaster, in the third volume of the Deptford Trilogy. Reprint.

After the death of her father, a circus performer, Emma Molinero moves in with her grandmother, whom she had never met, and struggles to find a place for herself in a rugged English village

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.

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Sixteen stories by the likes of Poe, Ellin, Gallico, and Queen find mystery, murder, and mayhem in circuses, carnivals, amusement parks, and sideshows across the land

At the center of a vicious custody battle, Ada Cunningham, a young musician, runs away and finds herself at a circus where she discovers a meaning to her life that transcends suffering and gives birth to art

Local high-school student Marcie falls for a handsome aerialist in town with his circus family and must discover if he feels the same way about her

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.

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 an historical novel based on the 1944 Barnum & Bailey's circus tent fire that killed hundreds, two survivors reexamine their lives and marriage while seeking the fire's true cause. By the author of The Port of Missing Men.

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

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.

Product Description: One day in 1897, as the huge carnival big-top swooshed upward, a child came flying out of the folds of the tent and landed softly in the straw on the ground. This is Slip’s story, and skillfully illustrates the curiosity towards the human condition that exists today as it did at the height of the turn-of-the-century freak-show...read more

A clever pull-tab and pop-up activity book allows young children to perform incredible circus feats, such as levitation and human cannonball tricks, knocking down clowns, and more.

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

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.

Found alone in an Ohio mall after closing, mute, and covered head-to-toe with fish-scale tattoos, a young girl is adopted by Lucy, a former circus fat lady, but when 'Emma' becomes a pawn in a scheme by a mad itinerant preacher, Lucy must risk her life--and her sanity--to protect her charge and uncover the mystery of her true identity. Original. 15,000 first printing.

During World War II, orphans Jeanmarie, Pearl, and Wilfred are hospitalized after a circus fire and, while exploring the nineteenth-century basement tunnels in New York City's Bellevue Hospital, they encounter a thief. (view table of contents)

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.