THE HORROR ARCHIVES · Vol. 009Carnival of the DamnedYour ticket was printed before you arrived.

Circus horror, freak shows and grotesque performers: ten acts of one vast travelling circus of the dead, from ringmaster to finale, drawn for you to color.

Planned

Planned. No edition, price or release date is set.

Front cover of THE HORROR ARCHIVES Vol. 009, Carnival of the Damned: a skull-faced ringmaster in a top hat holds out a ticket in front of a striped circus tent, a Ferris wheel and a lit carousel under an orange sky and full moon. Red title lettering.

The ninth volume of THE HORROR ARCHIVES follows a giant travelling circus that appears wherever death and despair gather. Each world is one of its troupes: ringmasters, clowns, aerialists, tamers, illusionists and monstrous performers, with six scenes per world. The rides belong to Vol. 011; this book is about the people in the ring.

Carnival of the Damned is planned, not released. Its release details, format and price are not set yet.

The books contain gothic, creature, body and splatter horror imagery. They are not made for children.

Series
THE HORROR ARCHIVES
Volume
009
Status
Planned
Planned contents
10 worlds, 6 motifs each (60 motifs)

Covers

Front cover of THE HORROR ARCHIVES Vol. 009, Carnival of the Damned: a skull-faced ringmaster in a top hat holds out a ticket in front of a striped circus tent, a Ferris wheel and a lit carousel under an orange sky and full moon. Red title lettering.
Front cover
Back cover of Vol. 009, Carnival of the Damned. Red dripping headline: "Your ticket was printed before you arrived." Text: "The gates open after midnight. Behind the faded banners, the performers are preparing a final act with a place reserved for you." Taglines: sinister midways, broken rides, eternal performances. Artwork: a skeletal hand feeding a long strip of tickets from a lit ticket booth, with a striped big top, a Ferris wheel and a muddy midway under an orange moon.
Back cover

Contents

Working contents from the story bible. Titles and order may change before release.

  1. The Last Admission

    The ringmaster's circus arrives after midnight, and every ticket already carries the visitor's date of death

  2. The Crimson Trapeze

    Surgically lengthened aerialists who never touch the ground; whoever falls becomes part of the next trapeze

  3. The Painted Hunger

    Clowns whose greasepaint has become living parasitic masks hiding extra jaws and bone

  4. The Hunger Menagerie

    Caged hybrid beasts that ate their keepers, around one creature grown from many predators

  5. The Bonebreaker Pavilion

    Strongmen whose muscles never stopped growing, with bones for scaffolding and extra arms

  6. The Vanishing Cabinet

    Illusionists who fold their own bodies and never return their volunteers

  7. The Orchestra of Throats

    Instruments of bone and sinew, and music that makes the audience dance against its will

  8. The Cabinet of Unnatural Wonders

    A sideshow of impossible life in tents that grow together and change shape every night

  9. The Cinder Performers

    Fire-eaters of charred skin and glowing bone in a tent that has burned for decades

  10. The Neverending Finale

    Every troupe in one last show until the whole arena rises as a monster and the ringmaster calls the next act

Editions

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Sample pages will be shown here once they are approved for publication.