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What Lurks Between the Trees by will_of_the_wisps
Fandoms: The Freak Circus (Visual Novel)
28 Aug 2026
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Summary
"Rule #1: Don't go into the woods at night."
Lyra has lived in Wyoming for as long as she can remember.
But on one day, bringing her dog with her to the open basketball courts to play in the nearby city, she is stopped in her tracks by a local circus that has come to town and barricaded the streets: The Freak Circus of Horrors. And with the circus have come rumors: of people going missing, but more notably near the Duskmire Woods she lives next to.
"Rule #2: Don't look to the treeline when something speaks your name."
And when Lyra is invited to see the circus through a mysterious red ticket that ends up in her hands through a chance-meeting with one of the local freaks, she takes the chance to investigate for herself the newcomers and the forest to find whether the quiet life she once had is good as they say it is.
But the world she once saw and came to see through rose-tinted glasses… will only be grabbed and flipped upside down.
"Rule #3: Don't. Turn. Around."