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"Victorian Grotesque: An Illustrated Excursion Into Medical Curiosities, Freaks and Abnormalities -Principally of the Victorian Age" London: Jupiter Books. 1977 Howell, Michael and Peter Ford The True History of the Elephant Man New York: Penguin Books. 1980 Humphries, Barry (comp.) Bizarre New York: Bell 1965 Hunter, Jack. Inside Teradome: An Illustrated History of Freak Film London: Creation Books 1995 Hutchinson, H.N. , J.W. Gregory and R. Lydekker The Living Races of Mankind, Vol's 1 and 2 Delhi: Mittal Publications (orig pub 1900) Iuliani, Giovanni. Freaks: A Collector's Edition of Nature's Human Oddities- Past and Present Montreal: Publications Ideal Inc. 1966 Irving, Wallace The Fabulous Showman: The Life and Times of P.T. Barnum New York: Knoph. 1959 Jay, Ricky Jay's Journal of Anomalies New York: Farrar, Strous and Giroux, 2001 Learned Pigs and Fireproof Women New York: Warner 1987 Jensen, Dean The Lives and Loves of Daisy and Violet Hilton: A True Story of Conjoined Twins Berkeley: Ten Speed Press 2006 Kilgarriff, Michael. Grace, Beauty and Banjos: Peculiar Lives and Strange Times of Music Hall and Variety Artists London: Oberon Books. 1998 Kunhardt, Philip B., Philip B. Kunhardt III and Peter W. Kunhardt P.T. Barnum: America's Greatest Showman New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 1995 Lamparski, Richard Whatever Became Of ... ? Ninth Series New York: Crown Publishers. 1985 Lee, Polly Jae Giant: The Pictorial History of the Human Colossus New York: A. S. Barnes and Company 1970 Leroi, Armand Marie Mutants: On Genetic Variety and the Human Body New York: Viking 2003 Levenson, Randal and Spalding Gray In Search of the Monkey Girl Millerton, NY: Aperture 1982 Lewis, Arthur H. Carnival: The Wide, Weird, Wonderful World Where Carnies Meet the Marks - And Everyone Goes Away Happy New York: Trident Press 1970 Lifson, Robert Enter the Sideshow Bala Cynwyd, PA: Mason Pub. Co 1983 Lindfors, Bernth (ed.) Africans On Stage: Studies In Ethnological Show Business Bloomington (Ind): Indiana Univ Press 1999 Mannix, Dan Freaks: We Who Are Not As Others San Francisco: Re/Search Pub 1990 Manchester, Richard B. Incredible Facts: The Indispensable Collection of True Life Facts and Oddities New York: Galahad Books 1986 Martel, Joanne Millie-Christine: Fearfully and Wonderfully Made N.Carolina: Joh. F. Blair 2000 Martin, Charles D. The White African American Body: A Cultural and Literary Exploration New Jersey: Rutgers Univ. Press 2002 Matthews, Peter (Editor) The Guiness Book of Records, 1993 New York: Bantam 1993 McCulloch, Lou W. Card Photographs: A Guide to Their History and Value East Exton, PA: Schiffer 1981 Meadows, Robert (comp.) A Private Anthropological Cabinet New York: Falstaff Press. 1934 Mitchell, Joseph McSorley's Wonderful Saloon New York: Blue Ribbon Books 1944 Mitchell, Michael Monsters of the Gilded Age: The Photographs of Charles Eisenmann Toronto: Gage Publishing. 1979 Monestier, Martin Human Oddities: A Book of Nature's Anomalies (trans. by Robert Campbell) Seacaucus, NJ: Citadel 1987 Parker, Mike The Worlds's Most Fantastic Freaks London: Hamlyn 1994 Peacock, Shane The Great Farini: The High-Wire Life of William Hunt New York: Viking Penguin 1995 Pernick, Martin S. The Black Stork: Eugenics and the Death of "Defective" Babies in American Medicine and Motion Pictures Since 1915 Oxfor Univ Press 1996 Purcell, Rosamond. Special Cases: Natural Anomalies and Historical Monsters San Francisco: Chronicle Books. 1997 Ray, Fred Olen. Grind Show: Weirdness as Entertainment Hollywood: American Independent Press. 1993 Ripley, Robert. Believe It Or Not: A Modern book of Wonders, Miracles, Freaks, Monstrosities and Almost Impossibilities New York: Simon and Schuster. 1929 Ripley's Believe It Or Not!: Human Oddities New York: Warner Books, Inc. 1977 Romaine, Mertie E. General Tom thumb and his Lady Mass: William S. Sullwold 1976 Roth, Hy and Robert Cromie The Little People: An Illustrated Look at Some of the World's Most Engaging Men and Women New York: Everest House 1980 Rusid, Max Sideshow: Photo Album of Human Oddities New York: Amjon Pub. 1975 Saxon, A. H. P.T. Barnum: The Legend and the Man New York: Columbia University Press. 1989 Scheugl, Felix Show Freaks & Monster Koln: Verlag M. 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Paramount. 1952 I Am Not a Freak: Six Shocking True Stories You'll Never Forget Kirby Dick, director 1987 Fox Hills Video The Incredible Life and Times of Robert Ripley: Believe it or Not! 1993. TBS Productions Meet Boston Blackie Robert Florey, director. 1941 The Secret World of Circuses and Sideshows 1998 Film Garden Entertainment Sideshow William Conrad, director. 1981. Transworld Entertainment Sideshow: Alive on the Inside Lynn Dougherty, director 1996. Big Chief Entertainment WEBSITES Wellcome Library http://catalogue.wellcome.ac.uk Disability History Museum www.disabilitymuseum.org Galerie des Monstres http://www.editorialbitacora.com/bitacora/galeria/galeria.htm Stanton, Jeffrey Coney Island - Freaks http://naid.sppsr.ucla.edu/coneyisland/articles/freaks.htm. 1997 The Missing Link "Freaks of Nature" David J. http://www.missinglinkclassichorror.co.uk/freaksnattxt.htm Ronald G. Becker Collection of Charles Eisenman Photographs, Syracuse University Digital Library http://libwww.syr.edu/digital/guides/b/becker_eisenmann.htm PERIODICALS Coronet May 1946 DeGenaro, Stephan A. "The Little Men" Timeline Nov/Dec 2002 Palmer, Randy "Freaks" Famous Monsters May 1981 Humphrey, Marmaduke "The Pranks of Nature" Godey's Magazine Feb. 1896. pp 118ff Kochanek, Lisa. "Reframing the Freak: From Sideshow to Science" Victorian Periodicals Review. Vol 30, Number 3, Fall 1997. pp 227-243 Skal, David J. and Elias Savada."The Making of Tod Browning's "Freaks" Filmfax vol 52 Sept/Oct 1995 "The Fat Man and His Friends" American Heritage: The Magazine of History June 1966. pp 34-39 Lucas, Bob. "Now 28, Siamese Twins Make Career As Gospel Singers" JET 20 Mar 1978, pp 14-18 Fellner, Chris (Publisher). Freaks, 18 issues. First pub. 1995 TRADING CARDS Freakards, Series I - Shel-Tone Publications. 1991 Human Freak and Oddities, Series I - IV (trading cards) Mother Productions. 1991 - |
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