When the circus comes to town, it's the ghouls that put on the show. A vampire ringmaster tells the erotic horror tale for a Christmas Eve. This poem is not for children. Adults, gather round.
Archived at the UCLA Library of Special Collections. Published in Speculative Poets of Texas (2015).
Waide Riddle is an award-winning author, writer, poet & filmmaker. His poems and stories are archived at UCLA Library of Special Collections, USC ONE Institute, Poets House/NYC, the Simon Weisenthal Center/The Museum of Tolerance & the Bodleian Library at Oxford University. He was raised in Spring Branch/Houston. He is a proud member of SAG/AFTRA. Mr. Riddle currently resides in Los Angeles.