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* ''[[The Circus of Doctor Lao]]'', the one novel by Charles G. Finney. One amazing novel.
* The setting for the [[Ravenloft]] novel ''Carnival of Fear''.
* According to the short story "A Boy and His Monster" in ''[[Star Wars]]: [[Tales From JabbasJabba's Palace]]'', Malakili the Rancor Keeper was previously employed by the Circus Horrificus, where Hutts paid to see weird creatures get tortured to death.
 
 
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* ''[[Doctor Who]]'', during the 7th Doctor's tenure, had the Psychic Circus in ''[[Doctor Who/Recap/S25 E4/E04 The Greatest Showinthe Galaxy|The Greatest Show in the Galaxy]]''.
** There was also an untelevised script for a Sixth Doctor story called ''The Nightmare Fair'', later released as a novel, then an audio play (unofficial) and then an audio drama (official). The circus in question belongs to an enemy called the Celestial Toymaker.
* ''[[Torchwood]]'' series 2 had the Night Travellers in the episode "From Out of the Rain".
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** Then there's that all-seeing eye at the entry gate that looks a lot like it belongs to one of the raid bosses... and the NPC who stumbles over his words as he almost says that the Master would be interested in certain items. It is very heavily implied that the Faire is related to the Big Bad of that expansion.
* ''[[Painkiller]]:Battle out of Hell'' has a circus/ fun fair called Loony Park with killer clowns and monsters made out of snack food.
* Ryan Amusements in ''[[BioshockBioShock (series)]]'''s Rapture is designed mostly as a propaganda device to scare children into never going to the surface.
* One level in ASC's ''Sanitarium'' has this. Of course, it's a delusion...
* Sweet Tooth's circus in ''[[Twisted Metal]] 4'' features such attractions as the "roller toaster", aside from being a battleground where the demented clown and a number of assorted psychos try to kill each other.