International Award-Winning and Bestselling Author
The Queen of Horror
M.D. LaBelle
Is a critically acclaimed bestselling award-winning author also crowned by her readers as the Queen of Mind-Gripping Stories. She has won the 2025 BookTok Author Awards in 4 categories, has won numerous other awards such as the 2021 Goodnovel Thriller Chillers Award, the 2022 Inkitt Mystery Contest, the 1986 Young Author's Award for Horror, the 2026 Book Authority Award for Best New Circus Books, The 2025 Book Authority Award for the Best Circus Books of All Time, The 2025 Book Authority Award for Best Circus Audiobooks of All Time. She has written over 80 books and several have been translated into upwards of 8 languages.
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The Circus
Where Everyone Is Welcome But A Few Never Go Home
Nothing bad ever happens in the quiet little town of Hope. However, when the circus rolls in one misty morning in late October, everyone decides to go see what they have. Even the Jorgenson family and their 8 year old son Noah head on down to the circus big top, but when it is time to leave he is nowhere to be found. WIth the help of Sheriff Langley, his parents search the premises, but they don't find him. Now that it is closing time, they are forced to leave in hopes that he will come home. Will they ever find him and all the other children that have gone missing from other towns?
Find out in The Circus, if what lies beneath the shiny exterior is something darker and far worse than you could have ever thought possible.
Reviews
5 out of 5 Stars
"This book made me not want to ever step foot in a circus or a haunted house with a clown display. This was a fun, scary ride. It scared the heck out of me in the best ways possible! Well done, MD! ❤."
Chelsea Warren- Amazon Reviewer in the United States
5 out of 5 Stars
"Mixed with genuine thrills and suspense, The Circus holds a creepiness level of the highest disturbing standards. I was pleasantly surprised by the sub-plots of personal agendas and unique spitefulness provided by the towns characters. These ominous undoings are held only second to a certain little “Needful Things” town located in Castle Rock, Maine. Inhumane actions that Labelle’s circus brings to town cleverly distorts the storyline into an unputdownable (because it’s that good) novella."
5 out of 5 Stars
"If you like horror/novellas, you will love this. Not for the faint of heart, but not total splatterpunk either, a good middle ground."
Kaitlin.Elizabeth- Amazon Reviewer in the United States
Mike Rankin- Horror Reviewer horrorbookwormreviews.com
The Circus Is Back
COME ONE COME ALL TO THE DEMON CIRCUS STRAIGHT FROM HELL
If you thought The Circus was scary, then hold on to your pants because it is about to get scarier, and gorier. In the sequel The Circus Is Back, the circus pops up in another small town clear across the country on the eve of Halloween.
"As they roll unexpectedly into the next little town, they all feel this immense sense of excitement. For they know all too well that some little boy or girl will soon be their next meal.
Reviews
5 out of 5 Stars
"Scary and Gory AF I Loved It.
This is a sequel to The Circus. When M.D. says that this book is longer and gorier and scarier, she's not lying. This book is more centered on the clowns (who technically are demons dressed in clown skin). The book starts off gory and scary right off the bat. These clowns have the ability to make children trust them and come to them and it leads to a piling up of missing children reports. They don't only k!ll children though. They also have it out for adults as well. When the circus comes to town, it can never mean anything good. I'm coulrophobic and The Circus and The Circus Is Back helped me face that fear head on. Did it make it better? No, not at all. Did I love this book? ABSOLUTELY!"
5 out of 5 Stars
"I don’t know why I have to torture myself by reading about clowns…but I do and I throughly enjoyed this quick read. A circus on Halloween night? You can’t go wrong wanting to be there or can you?"
Jennifer Hewett- Horror Reviewer on Instagram and Goodreads
Chelsea Warren- Amazon Reviewer in the United States
5 out of 5 Stars
A One-Way Ticket To A Creepy Circus
The night before Halloween, a mysterious yet strange circus arrives in the small community of Coupeville. Worn paper flyers begin to appear around town advertising the Rondell Family Circus. As darkness falls, the eerie music begins. The Circus Is Back, and so is The Ringmaster and his group of misfit clowns. Town folk, take heed, lock up your little boys and girls so they don’t become the next victims of this carnival.
Yes, the circus is back in town and the disappearances and lifeless bodies begin to stack up at an alarming rate. Underneath the LaBelle big top, there’s many morbid wrong doings and murderous intentions under way. This freak show of killers has existed for hundred of years and thousands of victims.
Reading M.D. LaBelle’s books are like Lay’s potato chips, “you can’t read just one.” After delving into the first book in the series, The Circus, I acquired a taste for cotton candy. Now, a second encounter with the Rondell Family Circus is available! LaBelle does not skimp on grizzly details and freakishly strange happenings. So if you are easily offended, warning: this book contains some of the most horrendous displays of cannibalism imaginable.
Scary white face paint and screaming crowds, if you like Art the Clown you’re gonna love the Rondell clan. Step right up and purchase your one-way ticket to LaBelle’s creepy circus, you won’t regret it! A five star ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Horror Bookworm Recommendation.
Mike Rankin- Horror Bookworm Recommendation
The Circus Is Back 1/2
The Circus Is Back 1/2 is the next installment in the series and is a circus clown horror story short. In this series addition the circus comes back the next year and brings all new horrors to small town USA. As Sheriff Carleson tries to warn other small towns the circus pops up in another unsuspecting place clear across the country where Sheriff Kowalski finds that the circus is not what it appears to be and little Suzy ends up with new playmates.
Reviews
5 out of 5 Stars
Another amazing installment in The Circus series. If you are looking for a summerween read, this is it. Demonic cannibal clowns, leaving a trail of murders everywhere the circus stops. A sheriff trying to stop them. Will the sheriff catch them? or will the murders continue?
Scrappy Doo - Goodreads Reviewer in the United States
5 out of 5 Stars
Amazing short story that gets you ready for the next in the series. And I still hate clowns yet I torture myself by reading about clowns lol
Jennifer Hewett - Horror Reviewer on Goodreads
5 out of 5 Stars
A Wildly entertaining short horror story!!
The circus is coming back to town and the clowns are hungry! This circus isn’t made up of ordinary clowns, and the police begin to suspect something isn’t right. They immediately try to stop the town from going to see this circus.
This story is creepy, gory and overall makes the fear of clowns even greater! It’s a fast and entertaining read!
I was lucky to get an arc of this exciting and creepy story!!
This is book 3 in the series:
1.) The Circus
2.) The Circus is Back
3.) The Circus is Back 1/2
**This fun and gruesome short story is out August 19th!! Check out the intense series!!*
Ali O - Reviewer on Goodreads