Zombie Circus

Zombie Circus
Author: Keith Carpenter
Publisher: Genesis Creations Ent.
Total Pages: 166
Release: 2009-12-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 144995149X

Brian Keeping was a young closeted gay mechanic who lived in Ashbrooke, one of the most un-PC homophobic, backward little towns in mid-west America. One day the traveling circus came to town and he, along with his two best friends, thought maybe a trip to the circus would be a welcome diversion from the monotony of their sleepy little town, but to their horror everything went terribly wrong. It seemed their sleepy little towns dark history was about to come back to haunt them as a result of a heinous crime that had been committed sixty years earlier. The zealous pastor and self appointed moral leader of Ashbrooke, Harry Farwell, coaxed his congregation to rise up and run the "sinful" Fink and Zimner Freak Show and Circus out of town. Instead they ended up putting it to the torch and condemning the circus and it's performers to a horrible fiery death. All but one that was... the sole survivor, the circus' fortune teller Madame Zadora, was in possession of a mysterious tonic she acquired from her motherland Romania, which had the potential to bring upon the town, a horrible curse of the UNDEAD. Now the new circus has come to town and all hell is about to break loose, in more ways than one. This Zombie fest of the highest order takes the genre to places it's never been before and we know you will be DYING to read it!

The Creeping Clown

The Creeping Clown
Author: Jessica Gunderson
Publisher: Capstone
Total Pages: 73
Release: 2018-08
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 149657348X

Josh is terrified of clowns, and the news that someone dressed as a clown in a neighboring town has been kidnapping children does not help, especially after the kidnapper escapes custody; so when he encounters a threatening clown at the House of Horrors at the amusement park he panics--but will he be able to save himself, much less rescue a little girl who is lost in the hall of mirrors?

Circus Clown Punch-Out Masks

Circus Clown Punch-Out Masks
Author: A. G. Smith
Publisher: Dover
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1990-05
Genre: Clowns
ISBN: 9780486263267

Six authentically designed punch-out masks based on the comic make-up created by favorite circus clowns—perfect for school shows, Halloween dress-up, clown routines, room decorations, or just clowning around at home. No cutting necessary.

Zom-B Circus

Zom-B Circus
Author: Darren Shan
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 71
Release: 2014-10-14
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1443438650

In this thrilling and macabre companion book to Darren Shan’s Zom-B series, Cat Ward, a teacher from B Smith's school, must run for her life on the day of the zombie apocalypse. Will her ruthless determination help her survive this plague of the undead? Someone has his eye on Cat, someone who is just as merciless as she is . . . Ferociously bold, furiously paced and deliciously horrifying, the Zom-B series is a sprawling epic that holds readers in its grip through every plot twist.

Eerie: Thriller

Eerie: Thriller
Author: S. Carey
Publisher: Penguin Group Australia
Total Pages: 42
Release: 2013-06-26
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1742538649

Eerie. Because goosebumps are for chickens. Alfie has a thriller idea for the school camp show, and using his grandfather's mortician's make-up could be just the thing to give it a real zombie touch.

The Many Lives of Scary Clowns

The Many Lives of Scary Clowns
Author: Ron Riekki
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 183
Release: 2022-05-16
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1476644527

The frightening yet comic clown is one of the best and most enduring characters in literature, theater, television, and film. Across the centuries, from Shakespeare's Porter in Macbeth to Edgar Allan Poe's "Hop-Frog," or Stephen King's Pennywise, horror and comedy have blended to create the perfect recipe for entertainment. This volume gives an in-depth analysis of the clown horror genre, including essays by revered horror scholars such as Kevin Wetmore, Dale Bailey, Kim Hester Williams, Jennifer K. Cox, and Joanna Parypinski. Their essays cover topics such as nostalgia, race, class, and new portrayals of the scary clown as zombies or phantoms. It also offers interviews with actors and directors working in the clown horror genre: Eoghan McQuinn (Stitches), Kevin Kangas (Fear of Clowns), and Jaysen Buterin (Kill Giggles). Some of fiction's most terrifying creations--like the Killer Klowns, Captain Spaulding, Art the Clown, Krusty, Frowny, the Joker, and Twisty--jig through these pages of analysis and deconstruction, asking what these many iterations of scary clowns have to say about our society and its fears.

Circus

Circus
Author: Christopher Shavers
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2021-02-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1649130600

Circus By: Christopher Shavers Need an escape from reality? Come to the Circus. The only ones here are you, revenge, and creatures escaping into reality. Not all nightmares stay in your head. Some haunt you in your homes. Some eat at your dreams. Others live like you. But they all have one thing in common. They all live off of fear. So, what better place for nightmares to gather fear in plain sight than at a circus. Come to get away and see where the lines of frightening and fantastic blur. Shows so unbelievable, you won't believe how everyone, and everything, comes back together.

Working Stiff

Working Stiff
Author: Kevin J Anderson
Publisher: WordFire +ORM
Total Pages: 211
Release: 2015-01-22
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1614752036

From a New York Times–bestselling author, seven hilarious mystery stories starring a zombie detective who won’t let death stop his pursuit of justice. Even being murdered doesn’t keep a good detective down, and in the Unnatural Quarter—inhabited by ghosts, vampires, werewolves, mummies, and all sorts of creatures that go bump (or thud) in the night—a zombie P.I. fits right in. Dan Chambeaux, a.k.a. “Shamble,” solves a string of madcap cases with his ghost girlfriend Sheyenne, his Best Human Friend Officer Toby McGoohan, and his firebrand lawyer partner Robin Deyer. Working Stiff contains seven cases from the files of Chambeaux & Deyer Investigations. Dan Shamble must solve the mystery of a stolen deck of fortune-telling cards and the undeath-defying feats of a vampire trapeze artist, finds himself sealed in a coffin in the back of a truck with no idea where he’s being taken, and is even hired by Santa Claus to find his lost “naughty and nice” list. Being trapped in an unbreakable monster-proof crypt, deciphering a string of mysterious zombie graffiti, investigating the murder of a costumed fan at a science fiction convention where the monsters are the normal attendees, or tracking down a kidnapped hellhound for legendary vigilante werewolf cop Hairy Harry—it’s all in a day’s work for Dan Shamble, Zombie P.I.

The Big Top on the Big Screen

The Big Top on the Big Screen
Author: Teresa Cutler-Broyles
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 173
Release: 2020-01-13
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1476671184

Circuses and film are a natural pairing, and the new essays making up this volume begin the exploration of how these two forms of entertainment have often worked together to create a spectacle of onscreen alchemy. The films discussed herein are an eclectic group, ranging from early silent comedies to animated, 21st century examples, in which circuses serve as liminal or carnivalesque spaces wherein characters--and by extension audience members--can confront issues as far-reaching as labor relations, sensuality, identity, ethics, and more. The circus as discussed in these essays encompasses the big top, the midway, the sideshow and the freak show; it becomes backdrop, character, catalyst and setting; and it is welcoming, malicious or terrifying. Circus performers are family, friends, foe or all of the above. And film is the medium that brings it all together. This volume starts the conversation about how circuses and film can combine to form productive, exciting spaces where almost anything can happen.