Midway and Carnival Stories

Araby by James Joyce.

Spurs by Tod Robbins (inspiration for Todd Browning's "Freaks").

Source.

You'll Never Know, Dear, How Much I Love You by John Updike.

Scripts from Carnivale
Carnivàle: After the Ball is Over
Carnivàle: Black Blizzard
Carnivàle: Milfay
Carnivàle: Tipton

Pulps
Circus Fists by Robert E Howard
A Half Interest in Hell by Emile Tempperman
A Fray Down South in Dixie by Thomas Thursday
It's Great to Be Great! by Thomas Thursday
That Terrible Wrestler by Thomas Thursday
The Big-Time Heart by W. Wonderly