BIBLIOGRAPHY
                                                                                                          BOOKS

Adrian, Werner. 
Freaks; Cinema of the Bizarre New York: Warner Books. 1976

Altick, Richard D. 
The Shows of London Mass: Harvard University Press 1978

Barth, Miles 
Step Right This Way: The Photographs of Edward J. Kelty   New York: Word Wise Press 2002
 
Bogdan, Robert.  
Freak Show: Presenting Human Oddities for Amusement and Profit  . Chicago: Univ of Chicago Press. 1998

Bondeson, Jan.   A Cabinet of Medical Curiosities  . New York: W.W. Norton & Company. 1997
                        
The Feejee Mermaid: and Other Essays in Natural and Unnatural History Ithaca and London: Cornell Univ.
            Press   1999                                     

                        
The Two-Headed Boy and Other Medical Marvels  Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press   2000

Bradna, Fred and Hartzell Spence  
The Big Top: My 40 Years with the Greatest Show on Earth   New York: Simon and Schuster
            1952

Brightwell, L.R. ed.
  Buckland's Curiosities of Natural History  London: The Batchworth Press. 1948

Brough, James   
"We Were Five": The Dionne Quintuplets' Story   New York: Simon and Schuster  1963

Buchanan-Taylor, W.  
Shake It Again London: Heath Cranton   1943

Carmichael, Bill.   Incredible Collectors, Weird Antiques, and Odd Hobbies  Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.  1971

Cheronnet, Louis  
Petit Musee de la Curiosite Photographique  Editions "Tel" 1945

Chindahl, George L. 
A History of the Circus in America   Caldwell, ID:  The Caxton Printers, Ltd.   1959

Clair, Colin   
Human Curiosities   New York: Abelard-Schuman 1968

Coup, W.C.
   Sawdust and Spangles  Washington, D.C.: Paul A. Ruddell. 1961 

Cox, Stephen   
The Munchkins of Oz   Nashville: Cumberland House. 1996

Davis, Janet M.  
The Circus Age: Culture & Society Under the American Big Top Chapel Hill, NC: The Univ of North Carolina
            Press   2002

de Herder, Wouter W.  
Acromegaly and gigantism in the 29th century: Fairs, freakshows, photos and postcards   Arnhem, The
            Netherlands: Novartis Pharma B. V.

Dikotter, Frank   
Imperfect Conceptions: Medical Knowledge, Birth Defects, and Eugenics in China   New York: Columbia
             University Press. 1998

Drimmer, Frederick  
Born Different: Amazing Stories of Very Special People   New York: Atheneum 1988
                             
Incredible People: Five stories of Extraordinary Lives   New York: Atheneum  1997
                             
Very Special People: The Struggles, Loves and Triumphs of Human Oddities   New York: Amjon.. 1973

Dufour, Lou.   
Fabulous Years: A Showman's Tales of Carnivals, World's  Fairs and Broadway    New York: Vantage Press
            1977

Durant, John and Alice.   
Pictorial History of the American Circus   New York: A.S. Barnes and Company. 1957

Ed.s, Time-Life Books.  
Mysteries of the Human Body    Virginia: Time-Life Books. 1990

Edwards, Frank.   
Strange People   New York: Carol Communications. 1961

Ewing, William A.   
The Body: Photographs of the Human Form   San Francisco: Chronicle Books. 1994

Fellows, Dexter W. and Andrew A. Freeman   
This Way to the Big Show: The Life of Dexter Fellows   New York: Halcyon
            House 1936

Fenner, Bruce   
The Circus: Lure and Legend    Prentice Hall. 1970

Fiedler, Leslie 
Freaks: Myths & Images of the Secret Self   New York: Simon and Schuster.  1978

Flammarion, Ernst (ed.)
   Les Variations du Corps Humain   Paris 1925

Ford, Laura   
For the Love of Jennie: A Tiny Love Story   Memphis: Skyward publishing. 1995

Foti, Frank S.  
The Drum Major of Company A: A Biography of Fleming W. Ackerman a.k.a. Colonel Speck   Cayuga-Owasco
            Lakes Historical Society   2005

Freaks: La Collezione Akimitsu Naruyama Logos. 2000

Fried, Fred and Mary.   
America's Forgotten Folk Arts    New York: Pantheon Books. 1978

Gardner, Dick   
The Impossible   New York: Ballantine Books. 1962

Goldman, Jane.   
The X-Files Book of the Unexplained   New York:  Harper Prism. 1997

Gould, George M. and Walter Pyle.   
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine   New York: Bell 1956

Gould, Stephen Jay  
The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History   New York: W.W. Norton   1985

Gresham, William Lindsay.   
Monster Midway: An Uninhibited Look at the Glittering World of the Carny    New York: Rinehart
             & Company, Inc. 1953

Gylseth, Christopher Hals and Lars O. Toverud 
Julia Pastrana: The Tragic Story of the Victorian Ape Woman    (trans by
            Donald Tumasonis) England: Sutton Publishing 2003

Gwathmey, Emily and Ellen Stern.
   Sister Sets: Sisters Whose Togetherness Sets Them Apart    New York: William Morrow. 1997

Hall, Ward   
My Very Unusual Friends   (self pub.) 1991

Hammer, Carl and Gideon Bosker   
Freakshow: Sideshow Banner Art    San Francisco: Chronicle Books. 1996

Hartzman, Marc 
American Sideshow: An Encyclopedia of History's Most Wondrous and Curiously Strange Performers   New
             York: Penguin  2005

History and Medical Description of the Two-Headed Girl Connecticut: Alton Nexier Bild. 1976 (orig. pub. 1869) 

Holland, Charlie (comp.)   
Strange Feats and Clever Turns   London: Holland & Palmer. 1998

Holtman, Jerry   
Freak Show Man: The Autobiography of Harry Lewiston as told to Jerry Holtman   Los Angeles: Holloway
              House. 1968

Houdini, Harry  
Miracle Mongers and Their Methods: A Complete Expose   New York: Prometheus   1993

Howard, Martin.  
"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. DuMont 1974

Skal, David J. and Elias Savada 
Dark Carnival: the Secret World of Tod Browning, Hollywood's Master of the Macabre   New
            York:: Anchor Books  1995

Sloan, Mark   
Hoaxes, Humbugs and Spectacles   New York: Villard Books. 1990

Sloan, Mark, Roger Manley and Michelle Van Parys, Ed's   
Dear Mr. Ripley: A Compendium of Curioddities from the Believe It
            or Not! Archives    Boston: Bullfinch Press 1993

Smith, J. David   
Psychological Profiles of Conjoined Twins: Heredity, Environment, and Identity   Connecticut: Praeger   
            Publishers 1988

Stacey, Michelle  
The Fasting Girl: A True Victorian Medical Mystery   New York: Putnam   2002

Stencell, A.W.   
Seeing Is Believing: America's Sideshows   Canada: ECW Press 2002

Svenvold, Mark   
Elmer McCurdy: The Misadventures In Life and Afterlife of an American Outlaw    New York: Basic Books.  
            2002

Sweet, Matthew  
Inventing the Victorians: What We Think We Know About Them and Why We're Wrong   New York: St.
            Martins Press   2001

Thompson, C.J.S.
   Giants, Dwarfs and Other Oddities   New York: Carol Publishing 1968 

The Carnival of the Grotesque: Freaks, Fools and Foulness Culled from the Pages of FHM  (supplement to the June 2001 edition
            of FHM magazine)

Wallace, Irving 
The Fabulous Showman: The Life and Times of P.T. Barnum New York: Alfred A. Knopf  1959

Wallace, Irving and Amy Wallace.   The Two: The Story of the Original Siamese Twins   New York: Simon and Schuster. 1978

Werner, Adrian 
Freaks: Cinema of the Bizarre   New York: Warner   1976

Wood, Gaby   
Living Dolls: A Magical History of the Quest for Mechanical Life   London: Faber and Faber 2002
 
  

                                                                     
FILM

Being Different  
Harry Rasky, director.  1981 Double S. Productions (Astral) Ltd 

Born Different: Nature's Most Peculiar People   1992 Reel World Productions

Freaks  Tod Browning, director 1932. MGM/UA Home Video

Freaks Uncensored: A Human Sideshow   Ari Roussimoff, director; copyright 1998 Bohemia Productions, Inc;
premier Feb 1999

I Am Not a Freak: Six Shocking True Stories You'll Never Forget  Kirby Dick, director 1987 Fox Hills Video

Meet Boston Blackie   Robert Florey, director. 1941

Sideshow   William Conrad, director. 1981. Transworld Entertainment

Sideshow: Alive on the Inside   Lynn Dougherty, director 1996. Big Chief Entertainment

The Greatest Show on Earth   Cecil B. DeMille, director. Paramount. 1952

The Incredible Life and Times of Robert Ripley: Believe it or Not!   1993. TBS Productions

The Secret World of Circuses and Sideshows   1998 Film Garden 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/r/RonaldGBeckerInventory.xls


                                                                
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 -