Freaks in Fiction and Non-Fiction
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Teratologist - Signed
by Edward Lee
Billionaire John Farrington is obsessed with the idea of offending God to the point that God would want to confront him in person. Farrington has …
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Freak Show
by F. Paul Wilson
A collection of horror tales features the work of Brad Strickland, Gregory Nicoll, Rex Miller, Nancy Kilpatrick, Scott A. Cupp, Kathryn Ptacek, Douglas Borton, Morgan …
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The Freakshow
by Bryan Smith
The Flaherty Brothers Traveling Carnivale and Freakshow has rolled into Pleasant Hills, Tennessee, and the quiet little town will never be the same. In fact, …
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Twilight Eyes
by Dean Ray Koontz
Sought by police for murder, slim Mackenzie, a young man both blessed and cursed by "twilight eyes," stalks the diabolical "Others," who feed their twisted …
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Invisible Monsters: A Novel
by Chuck Palahniuk
The career of a model ends when she is disfigured in an accident. Suspecting the accident was the work of her ex-boyfriend and his new …
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Geek Love
by Katherine Dunn
National Book Award Finalist • Here is the unforgettable story of the Binewskis, a circus-geek family whose matriarch and patriarch have bred their own exhibit …
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Water for Elephants
by Sara Gruen
Ninety-something-year-old Jacob Jankowski remembers his time in the circus as a young man during the Great Depression, and his friendship with Marlena, the star of …
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Freaks
by Daniel P. Mannix
Meet the strangest people who ever lived! Read all about: · the notorious love affairs of midgets · the strange sex lives of Siamese twins …
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The Two-headed Boy, and Other Medical Marvels
by Jan Bondeson
A successor to his popular book A Cabinet of Medical Curiosities, this new collection of essays by Jan Bondeson illustrates various anomalies of human development, …
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A Cabinet of Medical Curiosities
by Jan Bondeson
Discusses several strange diseases, remarkable malformations, uncommon and gruesome ways of death, and unlikely feats of fasting or gluttony, which proliferated in the seventeenth and …
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Side Show
by Howard Bone
Reminisces about life as a member of a traveling carnival troupe, about girlie shows, magic acts, pickled punks, torture acts, and the carnival in general.
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Freak Show
by Robert Bogdan
From 1840 until 1940, freak shows by the hundreds crisscrossed the United States, from the smallest towns to the largest cities, exhibiting their casts of …
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The Girls
by Lori Lansens
Rarely has the experience of being a sister been so poignantly and memorably captured as in Lori Lansens's triumphant novel. The Girls celebrates life's fundamental …
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Half Life
by Shelley Jackson
Nora and Blanche are conjoined twins. Nora is strong, funny, and deeply independent, thirsting for love and adventure. Blanche, by contrast, has been asleep for …
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The Pilo Family Circus
by Will Elliott
"Delivered by a trio of psychotic clowns, this ultimatum [to pass his audition for the circus] plunges Jamie into the horrific alternate universe of the …
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Freak Babylon
by Jack Hunter
A comprehensive study of freaks and freakshows, FREAK BABYLON also includes Doctor Frederick Treve's classic case history The Elephant Man and an illustrated account of …
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Human Oddities
by Noria Jablonski
A collection of short works focuses on a central theme of the human body as a landscape, in a volume that relates the experiences of …
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The Tsar's Dwarf
by Peter Fogtdal
Soerine, a deformed female dwarf from Denmark, is given as a gift to Tsar Peter the Great, who is smitten by her freakishness and intellect. …
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The Bighead
by Edward Lee
Who, or what, is the "Bighead"? Could it be a supernatural psychopath? Whatever it is, it's on a roll now, raging out of the Virginia …