Blue Behemoth
Author: first_name: Leigh Douglass
last_name: Brackett
Language: English
Year: 0

Shannon's Imperial Circus was a jinxed space-carny leased for a mysterious tour of the inner worlds. It made a one-night pitch on a Venusian swamp-town—to find that death stalked it from the jungle in a tiny ball of flame. (Summary from the text)