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Have there been many creepy novels written about the circus? I have an idea for one, but I'm not sure how well this ground is trodden. It would be more of a psychological novel than a horror one.

>> No.2166079

have you seen the film freaks?

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The Melancholy of Resistance by Lazso Krasznahorkai might be similar to what you're looking for.

"A powerful, surreal novel, in the tradition of Gogol, about the chaotic events surrounding the arrival of a circus in a small Hungarian town. The Melancholy of Resistance, László Krasznahorkai's magisterial, surreal novel, depicts a chain of mysterious events in a small Hungarian town. A circus, promising to display the stuffed body of the largest whale in the world, arrives in the dead of winter, prompting bizarre rumors. Word spreads that the circus folk have a sinister purpose in mind, and the frightened citizens cling to any manifestation of order they can find music, cosmology, fascism. The novel's characters are unforgettable: the evil Mrs. Eszter, plotting her takeover of the town; her weakling husband; and Valuska, our hapless hero with his head in the clouds, who is the tender center of the book, the only pure and noble soul to be found. Compact, powerful and intense, The Melancholy of Resistance, as its enormously gifted translator George Szirtes puts it, "is a slow lava flow of narrative, a vast black river of type." And yet, miraculously, the novel, in the words of The Guardian, "lifts the reader along in lunar leaps and bounds.""

>> No.2166125

geek love by katherine dunn was interesting. you could also check out that hbo series, "carnivale."

>> No.2166167

>>2166092

Bela Tarr made a famous movie adaptation of this book a couple year ago, called Werckmeister Harmonies. If you are into "ambitious" (to not say pretentious) films, this is one of the best. I personally liked it a lot, despite having som obvious flaws. The first ten minutes of the movie is one of the best sequences ever filmed:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFmu7BYbthY

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Read Nightmare Alley by William Lindsay Gresham.