Eight speculative fiction authors share their tales of Carnivals. These stories explore the real world phenomena of the 1920s with horror, supernatural, and fantasy twists. What did the Miami Hurricane '26 really blow in? What if it wasn't really an elephant that rampaged through Portland in May of '22? Find out these and many more alternative explanations to the strange goings on America between recovering from the 1918 influenza pandemic and just before the stock market crash of 1929.

Authors include Corry L. Lee, Ed Heiland, Aigner Loren Wilson, R. Z. Held, Shawna Hansen, Aaron C. Smith, Amanda Dier, Emily Sorensen, and Edmund Schluessel.