Carnival Pact Horror - The Price of Funhouse Games

Lucian M. Crowe

Summary

When a tired family finds a flyer promising free entry to a midnight carnival, it feels like a small gift. After months of silence and tension, maybe one night of lights and laughter can patch what’s been breaking.

But the gates demand a price. At the entrance waits a ledger, a pen heavy as iron, and a whispered rule: every guest must sign. What starts as harmless fun ring tosses, fortune cards, puppet shows twists fast. Prizes leave scars. Laughter feels borrowed. Mirrors reflect strangers.

Step by step, the carnival drags them deeper. Secrets resurface, old betrayals claw free, and the bonfire at the midway burns with memory and demand. Each choice carves into them, each bargain cuts closer, until love and destruction look the same.

Bound by signatures they barely understood, they face a truth they can’t turn from: the carnival doesn’t live on joy. It feeds on guilt, desperation, and the pieces of themselves they’ll never get back.

How much would you give to save your family and who will you be when the lights go dark?

***

And as this story closes, remember it is only one signature in the greater ledger of HELLSIGNATURE.

Across boardrooms and parliaments, carnival tents and bloodstained courts, neon alleys and hidden networks someone waits with a contract ready. HELLSIGNATURE is a series of dark bargains, written in moments of fear, hunger, or reckless hope. Each tale reveals what happens when the fine print comes due and escape is no longer an option.

Here, temptation wears many masks, but all of them hide decay. Every promise cuts deep, every victory carries a curse.

No deal is clean. No pact is safe. Every signature bleeds more than ink.

Available since: 09/07/2025.

Print length: 65 pages.

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