The circus, with its built-in otherworldliness, is an ideal setting for fantasy, horror and science-fiction novels. Authors have been capitalizing on it for years. Stephen King terrified a whole ...

Though he’s far from done clowning, Barry Lubin, a.k.a. Grandma, will bid adieu to the Big Apple Circus when the tent comes down May 13. It’s a fitting bookend to his circus career. In 1974 ...