The circus we remember was built on spectacle, but Forgotten Carnival reveals the ones who stood just beyond the spotlight. This sixth volume in the Curtainfall series brings to life the unseen hands and whispered rituals behind the big top. Inside these pages are skeletal mystics, mediums, and laborers — figures who bottled dreams, stitched tents, tossed fate with a glance, and listened to the bones. Etched onto vintage Buffalo Nickels, each engraving is paired with a ghost story or lyrical poem, turning each coin into an invocation of the carnival’s hidden keepers.

These are not background characters. They are the soul of the show, now captured in black-and-white engravings that blend hobo nickel tradition with dark circus folklore. The Hookback Medium. The Bone Bell Ringer. The Inkreader of Fate. Each portrait is a ceremony, each page a candlelit breath from a world that never truly left. Whether you collect folklore, crave occult art, or seek what lingers between silence and smoke, Forgotten Carnival opens the tent and lets the spirits speak.