Echo & Command is the fifth volume in the Curtainfall series — a spectral tribute to the voices and hands that once led the circus from behind horns, batons, and raised chins. These are not performers, but orchestrators. Ringmasters, buglers, drum majors, and ghostly parade leaders carved into the face of Buffalo Nickels, each one frozen not in applause, but in control. Their mouths are open, their arms raised, and their uniforms shaped from memory. They are caught mid-command, still holding center long after the tent emptied.

Inside are over 30 original black-and-white engravings, each paired with a ghost story or poem that carries the rhythm of the forgotten. These skeletal leaders are not silent — they are still conducting. Their bugles still gleam. Their drumbeats still echo. This is not a book about performance. It is a book about presence, about the ones who gave the show its spine. Echo & Command invites you to listen for the unbroken rhythm beneath the page and to honor the ones who never missed their cue.