This collection contains selected papers and documents of John Clifford, who wrote the screenplay for Herk Harvey's feature film, Carnival of Souls. This collection consists of documents and promotional materials related to the film, as well as some of Clifford's original book manuscripts and comic strip proposals.

Herk Harvey was an actor, vice president, director, and producer for Centron Films in Lawrence, Kansas. This collection contains film treatments, notes, correspondence, catalogs, slides, contracts, a mayoral proclamation, news articles, photographs, scripts, and an Academy Award Nomination plaque.