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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 -
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