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The Traveling Triple-C Incorporeal Circus is a 2019 paranormal road-trip novel by Alanna Mcfall.

Chelsea is determined to make it to her brother's wedding in San Francisco...despite the fact that she's been dead for two years. Teamed up with another, more experienced ghost named Carmen, and a living woman named Cyndricka who can speak to ghosts (and works as a mime), she walks from New York City across the country to get to her brother's wedding.


The Traveling Triple-C Incorporeal Circus contains examples of:

  • Ghostly Chill: How much chill a person feels is dependent on how inherently receptive they are. Some people ignore a ghost passing through them entirely, while others may feel it so strongly that they stop in place.

  • I See Dead People: Cyndricka can see and hear ghosts, and while she is mute, she can communicate with them in sign language.

  • Our Ghosts Are Different: The ghosts in Triple-C are mostly just echoes of the people they were when alive. The exceptions are "wailers", ghosts so consumed with grief that they become incapacitated, and "poltergeists", ghosts so consumed with rage that they become monsters.

  • Road Trip Plot: The main arc of the story is Chelsea, Carmen and Cyndricka traveling from New York City to San Francisco on foot. The two ghosts don't mind the walk, but the journey takes a physical toll on the still-living Cyndricka.

  • Silly Spook: Chelsea and Carmen must become this in order to put on a circus show with Cyndricka and distract some poltergeists from attacking them.

  • Unfinished Business: Chelsea dies by accident right after receiving the invitation to her younger brother's wedding. The desire to attend his wedding stays with her after death. (The wedding itself is pushed back several years due to the family grieving Chelsea.)

  • Unhappy Medium: Cyndricka is a generally happy and optimistic person. She is also homeless, mute, and considered insane by most living people.


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