FREAKS & SIDESHOWS
For fans of carnivals, circuses, sideshows, and human oddities.
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Snake Oil: Life's Calculations, Misdirections, and Manipulations
$12.95The gyp, hoodwink, shuck, sandbag: An artform that has been passed down through generations of hustlers, con men, and freaks. Learn More -
SideShow: My Life with Geeks, Freaks And Vagabonds in the Carny Trade
$12.95Howard Bone was a sideshow magician virtually his whole working life. Learn More -
Sideshow U.S.A.
$19.00Adams reveals images of the freak show, with its combination of the grotesque, the horrific, and the amusing, and how it stubbornly reappears in literature and the arts. Learn More -
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Shocked And Amazed! Volume 8
$19.95On & Off The Midway! The legendary journal about life on the midway and beyond! Truly incredible! Learn More -
Shocked And Amazed! Volume 7
$19.95On and off the Midway! Coney Island ain't what it used to be. Can you name me one thing that is? The Funny Place! Learn More -
Shocked And Amazed! Volume 6
$19.95That's right, brothers and sisters, it's hot and it's here: Vol.6 of James Taylor's SHOCKED AND AMAZED! On & Off the Midway. It's wild! Learn More -
Secrets Of The Sideshows
$19.95On small-town ballfields and county fairgrounds, the sideshow performers set up their tents and trailers in the shadow of the Ferris wheel. Learn More -
On Deception
$12.95Throughout his life, the world’s most famous escapologist strove to expose the methods and tricks of illusionists and sham spiritualists. Learn More -
Nightmare Alley
$14.95Nightmare Alley begins with an extraordinary description of a freak-show geek—alcoholic and abject and the object of the voyeuristic crowd’s gleeful disgust and derision—going about his work at a county fair. Young Stan Carlisle is working as a carny, and he wonders how a man could fall so low. There’s no way in hell, he vows, that anything like that will ever happen to him. Learn More
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