"Satan's Circus" by Lady Eleanor Smith | Weird tales | Original audio narration

Keen to know more about the mysterious and infamous Circus Brandt, a woman encourages her juggler friend to recount the grisly sequence of events that made him quit the show...and which haunt his nightmares still...

This original recording is an audio presentation by Jasper L'Estrange for EnCrypted: The Classic Horror Podcast. "Satan's Circus" by Lady Eleanor Smith (1931).

00:00 Intro
00:21 The Circus Brandt
10:05 The juggler begins his story
32:07 Anatole and the menagerie
39:41 What the nightwatchman saw
44:15 Outro

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About the story:

"Satan's Circus" by Lady Eleanor Smith. First published in Weird Tales, October 1931. Later collected in "Satan's Circus and Other Stories" by Lady Eleanor Smith (pub. Gollancz, 1932).

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