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Books with good carnival or masquerade scenes/settings. Not so much short stories.
Example: In The Count of Monte Cristothe Count has Albert and Franz watch a public execution in Rome and then gets bandits to capture them.Or the one in Faust II.
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>>9871719
master and margarita since it's based off faust.
m/f by burgess has an island carnivale iirc
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The opening chapter of Daniel Deronda
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>>9871719
Byron's Don Juan which, though verse, reads like a light, satiric novel (which is pretty much what it is). Though unfinished, very entertaining.
Hoffmann's Princess Brambilla may be the kind of thing youre looking for, though short.
Of course Bradbury's Something Wicked this way comes turns on events that occur at a dark-magic carnival if youre up for reading him. I know of some others, but these came first to mind.
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>>9871719
Not sure if you're into the actual theory of the Carnivalesque but if so you should check out Mikhail Bakhtin's "Rabelais and His World".
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>>9874094
Something Wicked was the first one that came to my mind.
IIRC there's a scene in Blood Meridian, or some other McCarthy western with a Dia de los Muertos celebration.
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>>9871719
Specifically the story "Gas Station Carnivals", but this whole collection has a Gothic circus/harlequin motif bubbling just under the surface
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