FREAKS & SIDESHOWS
For fans of carnivals, circuses, sideshows, and human oddities.
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Chang and Eng: A Novel
$16.00History’s most famous twins. Born in Siam in 1811—on a squalid houseboat on the Mekong River—Chang and Eng Bunker were international celebrities before the age of twenty. Learn More -
Dissection: Photographs of a Rite of Passage in American Medicine 1880-1930
$50.00From the advent of photography in the 19th and into the 20th century, medical students, often in secrecy, took photographs of themselves with the cadavers that they dissected: their first patients. Learn More -
Drew Friedman's Sideshow Freaks
$19.95Melvin Burkhart the Anatomical Wonder; Zip the Pinhead; Chang and Eng, the original Siamese twins; Johnny Eck, the King of the Freaks; Koo Koo the Birdgirl; and 45 more fascinating sideshow freaks both famous and obscure are immortalized in Drew Friedman’s delightful portraits. Learn More -
Extraordinary Exhibitions
$49.95This is an informal history of sensational, scientific, silly, satisfying and startling attractions based on seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth century broadsides from the Ricky Jay's extraordinary collection. Learn More -
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Freak Babylon: An Illustrated History of Teratology And Freakshows
$17.95FREAK BABYLON is a sometimes startling, sometimes disturbing documentary of the history of one of mankind’s most fascinating sciences – teratology – and its shadowy cultural correlative, the Freakshow, from ancient times to the present day. Learn More -
Freaks And Fire: The Underground Reinvention of Circus
$24.95Freaks & Fire is a free-falling leap into the world of radical circus. Learn More -
Freaks, Geeks And Strange Girls: Sideshow Banners Of The Great American Midway
$30.00A colorful history of the carnival sideshow and its distinctive banner art. Learn More -
Freaks: We Who Are Not As Others
$20.00The Re/Search edition of this long out-of-print classic book based on Mannix's personal acquaintance with sideshow stars such as the Alligator Man and the Monkey Woman. Learn More -
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