Beware when the circus comes to your town in a long, long caravan of hearses and sets up shop in a setting grimmer than a mortuary. The Ring Mistress seems to be in control of a collar of thorns rather than a round stage where the acts go on. i wonder if they have one of those signs on the entrance to the enormous black tent that implores the audience, "Do not reveal the surpass ending to your friends" All tongue in cheek of course, as nobody who attends a performance of Cirque de la Morte is around to pass on anything ever again.