THE HORROR ARCHIVES · Vol. 011The Screaming MidwayThe show must go on. Even after everyone dies.

Carnival horror, freak shows and deadly entertainment: ten fairground and circus worlds of monstrous performers, living rides and grotesque attractions, drawn for you to color.

Planned

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

Front cover of THE HORROR ARCHIVES Vol. 011, The Screaming Midway: a grinning masked ride operator in a cap pulls a lever beside a red warning light, with derelict roller-coaster cars, twisting coaster tracks and a drop tower under a full moon behind him. Red title lettering.

The eleventh volume of THE HORROR ARCHIVES runs away with the circus: ten worlds where entertainment turns into a bloody nightmare, with six scenes per world.

The Screaming Midway 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
011
Status
Planned
Planned contents
10 worlds, 6 motifs each (60 motifs)

Covers

Front cover of THE HORROR ARCHIVES Vol. 011, The Screaming Midway: a grinning masked ride operator in a cap pulls a lever beside a red warning light, with derelict roller-coaster cars, twisting coaster tracks and a drop tower under a full moon behind him. Red title lettering.
Front cover
Back cover of Vol. 011, The Screaming Midway. Yellow dripping headline: "The rides still run without their passengers." Text: "The steel track shudders above an empty queue. Somewhere beyond the maintenance doors, a ride operator is choosing who goes next." Taglines: broken coasters, endless queues, mechanical predators. Artwork: an empty, blood-stained roller-coaster train at a red-lit loading platform beneath looping coaster tracks and a full moon.
Back cover

Contents

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

  1. The Tollgate Fair

    A travelling fair where admission is paid in fingers, teeth and organs, built into new attractions

  2. The Wormlight Circus

    A pulsing living big top whose performers hatch parasitic creatures mid-show

  3. The Gallows Wheel

    A giant wheel hung on chains of bone; every full turn makes its riders more monstrous

  4. The Beast Parade

    A circus parade of stitched-together beasts and mechanical limbs crossing a dusty wasteland

  5. The Mirth Quarry

    Clowns in an open-air quarry arena whose laughter breaks bones, and victims forced to keep laughing

  6. The Carousel of Hollow Steeds

    A wandering carousel of skeletal horses whose ribcages open to swallow their riders

  7. The Knife-Mirror Fair

    A fair of mirrors and razor frames that stretch, fold and tear whoever looks into them

  8. The Exhibition of Impossible Bones

    A freak show of impossible skeletons that wake at night and rebuild themselves from visitors

  9. The Red Prize Arcade

    An endless row of game stalls whose prizes are living organs and grown monsters; losers become the next prize

  10. The Exit That Eats

    The world's largest fair fuses into one creature of tents, steel, bone and flesh, and the only exit is its mouth

Editions

There is nothing to buy yet. Digital, print and any other editions will be listed here with format, price and where you pay, once each one is real.

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