Sideshow Books by Category
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House of Deception Library: Sideshow Academic: Anatomy, Disability, Natural History, Criticism
Author Title Publication Year Publisher
Adams, Rachel Sideshow U.S.A: Freaks and the American Cultural Imagination 2001 University of Chicago Press
Bogdan, Robert Freak Show: Presenting Human Oddities for Amusement and Profit 1990 University of Chicago Press
Bondeson, Jan A Cabinet of Medical Curiosities 1999 W.W. Norton, New York
Bondeson, Jan The Feejee Mermaid and Other Essays in Natural and Unnatural History 1999 Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY
Bondeson, Jan The Two-Headed Boy, and Other Medical Marvels 2000 Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY
Buckland, Frances T. Curiosities of Natural History 1975 Beekman, New York
Burns, Stanley A Morning's Work: Medical Photographs from the Burns Archive & Collection, 1843-1939 1998 Twin Palms, Sante Fe NM
Dance, Peter S. Animal Fakes & Frauds 1976 Sampson Low, London
Dreger, Alice Domurat Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex 2000 Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA
Dreger, Alice Domurat One of Us: Conjoined Twins and the Future of Normal 2004 Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA
Gonzalez-Crussi, Frank, M.D. Notes of an Anatomist 1985 Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, San Diego
Gould, George M.; Pyle, Walter L. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1956 Bell, New York
Kohne, Eckart; Ewigleben, Cornelia (eds.) Gladiators and Caesars: The Power of Spectacle in Ancient Rome 2000 University of California Press, Berkeley
Leroi, Armand Marie Mutants: On Genetic Variety and the Human Body 2003 Viking, New York
Purcell, Rosamond Wolff Special Cases: Natural Anomalies and Historical Monsters 1997 Chronicle, San Francisco
Purcell, Rosamond Wolff; Gould, Stephen J. Finders, Keepers: Eight Collectors 1992 Norton, New York
Scientific American Supplement Vol. 65 "Circus and Museum Freaks: Curiosities of Pathology" 1908 Munn, New York
Skal, David J The Monster Show: A Cultural History of Horror 2001 Faber & Faber, London
Thomson, Rosemarie Garland Extraordinary Bodies 1997 Columbia University Press, New York
Thomson, Rosemarie Garland Freakery: Cultural Spectacles of the Extraordinary Body 1996 New York University Press
Wilson, Dudley Butler Signs and Portents: Monstrous Births from the Middle Ages to the Age of Enlightenment 1993 Routledge, New York
Worden, Gretchen Mutter Museum: Of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia 2002 Blast, New York
House of Deception Library: Medicine Shows
Author Title Publication Year Publisher
Hoyt, Harlowe R. Town Hall Tonight [Chapter 5, "Fifty Cents a Bottle--For Man or Beast"] 1955 Bramhall House, New York
McNamara, Brooks Step Right Up: An Illustrated History of the Medicine Show 1995 University Press of Mississippi
Stratton, Owen Tully Medicine Man 1989 University of Oklahoma Press
House of Deception Library: Sideshow Academic: Myths and Monsters
Author Title Publication Year Publisher
Fiedler, Leslie A Freaks: Myths and Images of the Secret Self 1979 Simon & Schuster, New York
Friedman, John Block The Monstrous Races in Medieval Art and Thought 2000 Syracuse University Press
Grant, John Monster Mysteries 1993 Chartwell, Secaucus, NJ
Humphries, Barry Bizarre 1965 Bell, New York
Kappler, Claude Monstres, démons, et merveilles à la fin du Moyen Age 1980 Payot
Napier, John Russell Bigfoot 1974 Berkley Medallion, New York
Napier, John Russell Bigfoot: The Yeti and Sasquatch in Myth and Reality 1973 E P Dutton, New York
Niccoli, Ottavia; Lydia G. Cochrane (trans.) Prophecy and People in Rennaisance Italy 1990 Princeton University Press
Pare, Ambroise; Pallister, Janis L. (trans.) On Monsters and Marvels 1995 University of Chicago Press
Patterson, Roger Do Abominable Snowmen of America Really Exist? 1966 Franklin, Yakima, WA
Purcell, Rosamond Wolff Special Cases: Natural Anomalies and Historical Monsters 1997 Chronicle, San Francisco
Sanderson, Ivan T. Abominable Snowmen: Legend Come to Life 1972 Chilton, Philadelphia
Thompson, C. J. S. Giants, Dwarfs and Other Oddities 1989 Citadel Trade, New York
Thompson, C. J. S. Mystery and Lore of Monsters 1994 Barnes & Noble, New York
Wilson, Dudley Butler Signs and Portents: Monstrous Births from the Middle Ages to the Age of Enlightenment 1993 Routledge, New York
House of Deception Library: On Collecting Oddities
Author Title Publication Year Publisher
Carmichael, Bill Incredible Collectors, Weird Antiques and Odd Hobbies 1971 Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
Impey, Oliver; MacGregor, Arthur The Origins of Museums The Cabinet of Curiosities in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Europe 2001 House of Stratus, N. Yorkshire, UK
Pomian, Krzysztof Collectors and Curiosities: Paris and Venice, 1500-1800 1991 Polity, Cambridge, UK
Purcell, Rosamond Wolff; Gould, Stephen J. Finders, Keepers: Eight Collectors 1992 Norton, New York
Stewart, Susan A. On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection 2005 Duke University Press, Durham, NC
Weschler, Lawrence Mr. Wilson's Cabinet Of Wonder 1996 Vintage, New York
House of Deception Library: Carnival & Sideshow in Art and Literature
Author Title Publication Year Publisher
Barth, Myles; Siegel, Alan Step Right This Way: The Photographs of Edward J. Kelty 2002 Barnes & Noble, New York
Darrah, William C. Cartes de Visite in Nineteenth Century Photography 1981 W.C. Darrah, Gettysburg, PA
Fraley, Tobin The Great American Carousel: A Century of Master Craftsmanship 1994 Chronicle, San Francisco
Fraley, Tobin; Sinick, Gary The Carousel Animal 1987 Chronicle, San Francisco
Gustafson, Donna Images from the World Between: The Circus in Twentieth-Century American Art 2001 MIT Press, Cambridge, MA
Hammer, Carl; Bosker, Gideon Freak Show: Sideshow Banner Art 1996 Chronicle, San Francisco
Hyman, Timothy; Malbert, Roger Carnivalesque (National Touring Exhibition) 2000 Hayward Gallery, London
Johnson, Fred G. Fred G. Johnson: Sideshow Banners 1989 State of Illinois Art Gallery, Chicago
Johnson, Randy; Meah, Johnny; Secreto, Jim; Varndell, Teddy Freaks, Geeks and Strange Girls: Sideshow Banners of the Great American Midway 2000 Hardy Marks, Honolulu
Knaebel, Nathaniel (ed) Step Right Up: Stories of Carnivals, Sideshows, and the Circus 2004 Carroll & Graf, New York
Meiselas, Susan Carnival Strippers 2003 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Steadman, Ralph Tales of the Weirrd 2002 Firefly, Ontario
Vita, Tricia Johnny Meah [Raw Vision: Outsider Art, Art Brut, Folk Art] 2005 Raw Vision, London
Weedon, Geoff; Ward, Richard Fairground Art 2003 New Cavendish, London
Wilson, Gahan The Big Book of Freaks 1996 Paradox, New York
House of Deception Library: Freaks in Film
Author Title Publication Year Publisher
Adrian, Werner Freaks: Cinema of the Bizarre 1976 Warner, New York
Cox, Stephen Munchkins of Oz 2002 Cumberland House, Cumberland, TN
Friedman, David A Youth in Babylon: Confessions of a Trash-Film King 1990 Prometheus, Buffalo, NY
Harmetz, Aljean The Making of the Wizard of Oz 1998 Hyperion, New York
Hunter, Jack Freak Babylon: An Illustrated History of Teratology & Freakshows 2005 Glitter Books
Hunter, Jack Inside Teradome: An Illustrated History of Freak Film 1998 Creation, London
House of Deception Library: P. T. Barnum and the Dime Museum
Author Title Publication Year Publisher
Andronik, Catherine M. Prince of Humbugs: A Life of P. T. Barnum 1994 Atheneum, New York
Barnum, P. T. Humbugs of the World 2003 Kessinger Publishing, Whitefish, MT
Barnum, P. T. Life of P.T. Barnum 1855 Redfield, New York
Barnum, P. T. The Life of P. T. Barnum: Written by Himself 2000 University of Illinois Press
Barnum, P. T.; Bode, Carl (ed.) Struggles and Triumphs: Or, Forty Years' Recollections of P.T. Barnum 1981 Penguin, New York
Dennett, Andrea Stulman Weird & Wonderful: The Dime Museum in America 1997 New York University Press
Fitzsimons, Raymund Barnum in London 1969 Bles, London
Harris, Neil Humbug: The Art of P. T. Barnum 1981 University of Chicago Press
Harris, Neil Humbug: The Art of P. T. Barnum. 1973 Little Brown, Boston
Kunhardt, Philip B. P. T. Barnum: America's Greatest Showman 1995 Knopf, New York
Root, Harvey W. The Unknown Barnum 1927 Harper, New York
Saxon, Arthur H. P.T. Barnum: The Legend and the Man 1989 Columbia University Press, New York
Saxon, Arthur H. Selected Letters of P. T. Barnum 1983 Columbia University Press, New York
Wallace, Irving The Fabulous Showman: The Life and Times of P. T. Barnum 1959 Alfred A. Knopf, New York
House of Deception Library: Carnival Games
Author Title Publication Year Publisher
Boles, Don The Compleat Pitchman 1972 Pinchpenny, Atlanta
Boles, Don The Midway Showman 1967 Pinchpenny, Atlanta
Brill, Aaron K. A. Brill's Bible of Building Plans and Collection of Much Information Useful to Showman, Carnie, Fairman, and Amusement Park Operator 1976 A. B. Enterprises, Peoria, IL
Connor, J. Hal Stunts and Features for Carnivals 1927 Eldridge, Franklin, OH
Fox, Theron How to Make Money With Carnival Games 1980 Pinchpenny, Atlanta
Gowler, Danny Carnival Games - How They Work and How to Win 1997 author
Gryczan, Matthew L. Carnival Secrets 1988 Zenith, Royal Oak MI
Richardson, Brian The Secrets of Amusement Park Games... Revealed! Silver Star, Houston
Scarne, John Scarne's Complete Guide to Gambling [Chapter 19, "Carnival, Fair, Bazaar, Arcade, and Amusement Park Games"] 1961 Simon & Schuster, New York
Smith, Lindsay; Walstad, Bruce Keeping Carnies Honest: Police Officer's Field Guide to Carnival Game Inspections 1990 Street Smart Coms., Littleton, CO
Sorrows, Gene All About Carnivals 1985 American Federation of Police, N. Miami, FL
Sorrows, Gene Carnival Knowledge 1983 Sun
Swierczynski, Duane The Complete Idiot's Guide To Frauds, Scams, and Cons 2002 Alpha, New York
Witter, Bret; Sharkey, Lorelei Carnival Undercover 2003 Plume, New York
House of Deception Library: Wild West Show
Author Title Publication Year Publisher
Cody, William Frederick The Life of Buffalo Bill: Or, the Life and Adventures of William F. Cody, As Told by Himself 2001 Narrative, Santa Barbara, CA
Cody, William Frederick The Life of Hon. William F. Cody Known as Buffalo Bill: An Autobiography 1978 University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln
Collings, Ellsworth The 101 Ranch 1986 University of Oklahoma Press
Enss, Chris Buffalo Gals: Women of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show 2005 Falcon, San Ramon, CA
Farnum, Allen L. Pawnee Bill's Historic Wild West: A Photo Documentary of the 1900-1905 Show Tours 1992 Schiffer, Atglen, PA
Fox, Charles Philip; Parkinson, Tom The Circus in America 2002 Hennessey & Ingalls, Santa Monica, CA
Gallop, Alan Buffalo Bill's British Wild West 2001 Gloucestershire: Sutton Publishing
Havighurst, Walter Buffalo Bill's Great Wild West Show 2000 Random Library, New York
Kasson, Joy S. Buffalo Bill's Wild West: Celebrity, Memory, and Popular History 2001 Hill and Wang, New York
McMurtry, Larry The Colonel and Little Missie: Buffalo Bill, Annie Oakley, and the Beginnings of Superstardom in America 2005 Simon & Schuster, New York
Moses, L. G. Wild West Shows and the Images of American Indians, 1883-1933 1999 University of New Mexico Press
Reddin, Paul Wild West Shows 1999 University of Illinois Press
Russell, Don Wild West: A History of the Wild West Shows 1970 Univ of Texas Press
Wallis, Michael The Real Wild West: The 101 Ranch and the Creation of the American West 2000 St. Martin's Griffin, New York
Warren, Louis S. Buffalo Bill's America: William Cody and the Wild West Show 2005 Knopf, New York
Yost, Nellie Snyder Buffalo Bill: His Family, Friends, Fame, Failures and Fortunes 1980 Ohio University Press, Athens, OH
House of Deception Library: Sideshow History, Attractions, & Performers (Pictorial Emphasis)
Author Title Publication Year Publisher
Freaks of Nature 1978 Red Lion, Canoga Park, CA
Barth, Myles; Siegel, Alan Step Right This Way: The Photographs of Edward J. Kelty 2002 Barnes & Noble, New York
Brouws, Jeff; Caron, Bruce Inside the Live Reptile Tent: The Twilight World of the Carnival Midway 2001 Chronicle, San Francisco
Dahlinger, Fred Circus World Museum Presents Show Trains of the 20th Century 2000 Iconografix, Hudson, WI
Fish, Charles Blue Ribbons and Burlesque: A Book of Country Fairs 1998 Countryman, Woodstock, VT
Fraley, Tobin The Great American Carousel: A Century of Master Craftsmanship 1994 Chronicle, San Francisco
Fraley, Tobin; Sinick, Gary The Carousel Animal 1987 Chronicle, San Francisco
Fried, Frederick; Fried, Mary America's Forgotten Folk Arts 1978 Pantheon, New York
Gilden, Bruce Coney Island 2002 Trebruk
Hunter, Virginia Lee; Fenton, Peter Carny: Americana on the Midway 2007 Umbrage Editions. New York
Lee, Polly Jae Giant: The Pictorial History of the Human Colossus 1970 A. S. Barnes, South Brunswick
Levenson, Randal; Gray, Spalding In Search of the Monkey Girl 1982 Aperture, New York
Lifson, Robert; Mastro, William Enter the Sideshow 1983 authors
Mark, Mary Ellen Indian Circus 1993 Chronicle, San Francisco
McCarry, John; Olson, Randy County Fairs: Where America Meets [Chapter 5, "The Midway"] 1997 National Geographic Society, Washington, D.C.
Meiselas, Susan Carnival Strippers 2003 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Mitchell, Michael Monsters: Human Freaks in America's Gilded Age: The Photographs of Chas Eisenmann 2002 ECW, Toronto
Rhodes, Bill Circus and Carnival Trucks: 1923-2000 Photo Archive 2001 Iconografix, Hudson, WI
Rusid, Max Side Show: Max Rusid's Photo Album of Human Oddities 1975 Amjon, New York
Schneider, Hanspeter The Last Sideshow 2004 Dazed, London
Sloan, Mark Hoaxes, Humbugs & Spectacles 1990 Villard, New York
Sloan, Mark Wild, Weird, and Wonderful: The American Circus Circa 1910 as seen by F. W. Glasier 2002 Quantuck Lane, New York
Stein, Harvey Coney Island 1998 W.W. Norton, New York
Stone, Sir Benjamin Jolly Old England's Festivals, Ceremonies and Customs: Sir Benjamin Stone's Revealing Camera 1992 Allborough, Cambridge, UK
Stone, Sir Benjamin Sir Benjamin Stone's Pictures: Records of National Life and History 1906 Cassell, London
Ware, Michael E. Historic Fairground Scenes 1977 Moorland, UK
Weedon, Geoff; Ward, Richard Fairground Art 2003 New Cavendish, London
Worsham, Roger Animal Freaks, Cards Series 1991 Mother Productions, Atwood, CA
Worsham, Roger Human Freaks and Oddities, Cards Series #1 1991 Mother Productions, Atwood, CA
Worsham, Roger Human Freaks and Oddities, Cards Series #2 1991 Mother Productions, Atwood, CA
Worsham, Roger Human Freaks and Oddities, Cards Series #3 1992 Mother Productions, Atwood, CA
Worsham, Roger Human Freaks and Oddities, Cards Series #4 1992 Mother Productions, Atwood, CA
Worsham, Roger The Gathering [hardcover edition] 2004 Bizarre Bazaar Biz, Sparks, NV
Worsham, Roger The Gathering [softcover edition] 2004 Bizarre Bazaar Biz, Sparks, NV
House of Deception Library: Sideshow History, Attractions, & Performers
Author Title Publication Year Publisher
Adams, Judith A. The American Amusement Park Industry: A History of Technology and Thrills 1991 Twayne, Boston
Alden, William Livingstone Among the Freaks 1896 Longmans Green, London
Altick, Richard D. The Shows of London: A Panoramic History of Exhibition, 1600-1862 1978 Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA
American Heritage "The Fat Man and His Friends" in American Heritage, June, 1966 1966 American Heritage, New York
Audibert, Chris Biography of Frank William Gaskill [original manuscript] 1989 [unpublished] Audibert Amusement. New York
Baldwin, Samri S. The Secrets of Mahatma Land Explained 1895 author, New York
Ballantine, Bill Wild Tigers and Tame Fleas 1958 Rinehart, New York
Barnum Museum Shocked and Amazed: The World of the Sideshow 1999 Barnum Museum, Bridgeport, CT
Berman, John S. Portraits of America: Coney Island 2003 Barnes & Noble, New York
Blaine, David Mysterious Stranger 2002 Villard, New York
Boese, Alex The Museum of Hoaxes: A Collection of Pranks, Stunts, Deceptions, and Other Wonderful Stories Contrived for the Public from the Middle Ages to the New Millennium 2002 E P Dutton, New York
Bogdan, Robert Freak Show: Presenting Human Oddities for Amusement and Profit 1990 University of Chicago Press
Boles, Don Midway Magic 1963 Pinchpenny, Atlanta
Bone, Howard Side Show: My Life With Geeks, Freaks & Vagabonds in the Carny Trade 2001 Sun Dog, Northville, MI
Bradford, Verner Phillips; Blume, Harvey Ota Benga: The Pygmy in the Zoo 1992 St. Martin's, New York
Braithwaite, David Fairground Architecture: The World of Amusement Parks, Carnivals and Fairs 1968 Praeger, New York
Broome, Richard Sideshow Alley 1998 Allen & Unwin
Carlyon, David Dan Rice: The Most Famous Man You've Never Heard Of 2001 PublicAffairs, New York
Carrington, Hereward Hindu Magic 1913 Sphinx, Kansas City
Carrington, Hereward Side-Show and Animal Tricks 1913 Sphinx, Kansas City
Carrington, Hereward Sideshow Tricks Explained 1973 Pinchpenny, Atlanta
Carrington, Hereward Side-Show Tricks Explained (Little Blue Book 1279) no date Haldeman-Julius, Girard, KS
Cavin, Lee There Were Giants on the Earth! 1970 Hanover
Chemung County Historical Society The County Fair Carnival: Where the Midway Meets the Grange 1992 Chemung County Historical Society, Elmira, NY
Clair, Colin Human Curiosities 1968 Abelard-Schuman, London
Cook, James W. The Arts of Deception: Playing With Fraud in the Age of Barnum 2001 Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA
Dadswell, Jack Hey There Sucker! 1946 Bruce Humphries, Boston
Dance, Peter S. Animal Fakes & Frauds 1976 Sampson Low, London
Darrah, William C. Cartes de Visite in Nineteenth Century Photography 1981 W.C. Darrah, Gettysburg, PA
Davis, Janet M. The Circus Age: Culture and Society Under the American Big Top 2002 University of North Carolina Press
Dennett, Andrea Stulman Weird & Wonderful: The Dime Museum in America 1997 New York University Press
Denson, Charles Coney Island: Lost and Found 2002 Ten Speed Press
Drimmer, Frederick Born Different: Amazing Stories of Very Special People 1991 Bantam Skylark, New York
Drimmer, Frederick Very Special People: The Struggles, Loves and Triumphs of Human Oddities 1973 Amjon, New York
Dufour, Lou; Kirby, Irwin Fabulous Years: A Showman's Tales of Carnivals, World's Fairs, and Broadway 1977 Vantage, New York
Fellner, Chris Freaks! No.1 1995 author
Fenton, Peter Eyeing the Flash 2005 Simon & Schuster, New York
Fox, Charles Philip; Parkinson, Tom The Circus in America 2002 Hennessey & Ingalls, Santa Monica, CA
Frega, Donnalee Women of Illusion: A Circus Family's History 2001 Palgrave/St. Martin's, New York
Fried, Frederick; Fried, Mary America's Forgotten Folk Arts 1978 Pantheon, New York
Friedman, David A Youth in Babylon: Confessions of a Trash-Film King 1990 Prometheus, Buffalo, NY
Geyer, Celesta; Roen, Samuel Diet or Die: The Dolly Dimples Weight Reducing Plan 1968 Frederick Fell, New York
Gonzalez-Crussi, Frank, M.D. Notes of an Anatomist 1985 Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, San Diego
Goodrich, Samuel G. Curiosities of Human Nature: By the Author of Peter Parley's Tales 1843 Bradbury and Soden, Boston
Gorham, Maurice Showmen and Suckers: An Excursion on the Crazy Fringe of the Entertainment World 1951 Percival Marshall, London
Graham, Peter W.; Oehlschlaeger, Fritz H. Articulating the Elephant Man: Joseph Merrick and His Interpreters 1992 Johns Hopkins University Press
Gregor, Jan T. Circus of the Scars 1998 Brennan Dalsgard, Seattle, WA
Gresham, William Lindsay Monster Midway: An Uninhibited Look at the Glittering World of the Carny 1953 Rinehart, New York
Gurney, Gene America in Wax 1977 Crown, New York
Hahn, Emily Eve & the Apes 1988 Random House, New York
Hall, Ward My Very Unusual Friends 1991 author, Gibsonton, FL
Hall, Ward Struggles and Triumphs of a Modern Day Showman 1981 Carnival Publishers of Sarasota, FL
Hartzman, Marc American Sideshow: An Encyclopedia of History's Most Wondrous and Curiously Strange Performers 2005 Tarcher/Penguin, New York
Helfer, Ralph Modoc: The True Story of the Greatest Elephant that Ever Lived 1998 Harper Perennial, New York
Hill, J. Dee; Hollenbeck, Phil Freaks and Fire: The Underground Reinvention of Circus 2004 Soft Skull, Brooklyn
Hoh, LaVahn G.; Rough, William H. Step Right Up! The Adventure of Circus in America 1990 Betterway, Whitehall, VA
Holland, Charlie Strange Feats and Clever Turns 1998 Holland & Palmer, London
Holtman, Jerry; Harry Lewiston Freak Show Man: The Autobiography of Harry Lewiston 1968 Holloway House, Los Angeles, CA
Hornberger, Francine Carny Folk 2005 Citadel, New York
Howard, Martin Victorian Grotesque 1977 Jupiter, London
Howell, Michael; Ford, Peter The True History of the Elephant Man 2001 Allison & Busby, London
Hunter, Jack Freak Babylon: An Illustrated History of Teratology & Freakshows 2005 Glitterbooks, London
Hunter, Jack Inside Teradome: An Illustrated History of Freak Film 1998 Creation, London
Hunter, Kay Duet For a Lifetime: The Story of the Original Siamese Twins 1964 Coward-McCann, New York
Hunter, Virginia Lee; Fenton, Peter Carny: Americana on the Midway 2007 Umbrage Editions. New York
Immerso, Michael Coney Island: The People's Playground 2002 Rutgers University Press
Jay, Ricky Extraordinary Exhibitions 2005 Quantuck Lane, New York
Jay, Ricky Jay's Journal of Anomalies 2001 Quantuck Lane, New York
Jay, Ricky Learned Pigs & Fireproof Women 1986 Villard, New York
Jensen, Dean The Biggest, The Smallest, The Longest, The Shortest: A Chonicle of the American Circus From Its Heartland 1975 Wisconsin House, Madison, WI
Johnson, Karl The Magician and the Cardsharp: The Search for America's Greatest Sleight-of-Hand Artist 2005 Henry Holt, New York
Kahn, Kenneth The Carny Kid: Survival of a Young Thief 2005 Pendant
Kasson, John F. Amusing the Million: Coney Island at the Turn of the Century 1978 Hill and Wang, New York
King, W. A. Jr. Rattling Yours...Snake King 1964 Springman-King, Brownsville, TX
Knaebel, Nathaniel (ed) Step Right Up: Stories of Carnivals, Sideshows, and the Circus 2004 Carroll & Graf, New York
Kobel, Bernard Human Oddities of Circus Sideshows of Yesterday and Today: Complete List and Descriptive Text 1974 author, Clearwater, FL
Kohne, Eckart; Ewigleben, Cornelia (eds.) Gladiators and Caesars: The Power of Spectacle in Ancient Rome 2000 University of California Press, Berkeley
Larson, Erik The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America 2003 Crown, New York
Lee, Polly Jae Giant: The Pictorial History of the Human Colossus 1970 A. S. Barnes, South Brunswick
Lewis, Arthur H. Carnival 1970 Trident, New York
MacKay, Charles Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds 1960 L. C. Page, Boston
Mangels, William F. The Outdoog Amusement Industry: From Earliest Times to Present 1952 Vantage, New York
Mannix, Daniel P. Freaks: We Who Are Not As Others 2000 Re/Search, San Francisco, CA
Mannix, Daniel P. Memoirs of a Sword Swallower 1996 V/Search, San Francisco
Mannix, Daniel P. Step Right Up 1951 Harper, New York
Martell, Joanne Millie-Christine: Fearfully And Wonderfully Made 2000 John F Blair, Winston-Salem, NC
McCullough, Edo Good Old Coney Island: A Sentimental Journey into the Past 1957 Scribner, New York
McCullough, Edo World's Fair Midways: An Affectionate Account of American Amusement Areas from the Crystal Palace to the Crystal Ball 1966 Exposition, NY
McKennon, Joe Circus Lingo 1980 Carnival Publishers of Sarasota, FL
McKennon, Joe Logistics of the American Circus 1977 Carnival Publishers of Sarasota, FL
McKennon, Joe Pictorial History of the American Carnival, Vol. I and II 1977 Carnival Publishers of Sarasota, FL
McKennon, Joe Pictorial History of the American Carnival, Vol. III 1981 Carnival Publishers of Sarasota, FL
Miller, David Prince Life of a Showman 1855 Thomas Hailes Lacy, London
Mitchell, Joseph "Lady Olga" in Up in the Old Hotel 1993 Vintage, New York
Monestier, Martin Human Oddities: A Book of Nature's Anomalies 1987 Citadel, New York
Montagu, Ashley The Elephant Man: A Study in Human Dignity 2001 Acadian, Lafayette, LA
Morgan, Robert The Showies: Revelations of Australian Outdoor Side-Showmen 1995 Brown Prior Anderson, Burwood, Victoria, Australia
Nickell, Joe Secrets Of The Sideshows 2005 University Press of Kentucky
Nicol, Philippe Biographical Sketches of Count and Countess Philippe Nicol and Their Son Philippe Jr. 1946 Midget's Palace, Montreal
Noell, Mae Gorilla Show: The History of Noell's Ark Gorilla Show 1979 Noell's Ark, Tarpon Springs, FL
Ogden, Tom Two Hundred Years of the American Circus: From Aba-Daba to the Zoppe-Zavatta Troupe 1993 Facts on File, New York
O'Nan, Stewart The Circus Fire: A True Story of an American Tragedy 2001 Anchor, New York
Ord-Hume, Arthur W. J. G. Clockwork Music 1973 Crown, New York
Pacific Coast Showmen's Association Old Times New Times: Those Were the Days (20th Anniversary Souvenir Edition Yearbook) 1983 P.C.S.A.
Packard, Mary Ripley's Believe It or Not Special Edition 2004 2003 Scholastic, New York
Parker, Mike The World's Most Fantastic Freaks 1997 Hamlyn, London
Pepper, Professor The True History of Pepper's Ghost 1890 Cassell, London
Quinonas, Gualterio The Armless Marvel, Mary Belle 1949 North River, Croton-On-Hudson, NY
Ray, Fred Olen Grind Show: Weirdness as Entertainment 1993 American Independent Press, Hollywood, CA
Register, Woody The Kid of Coney Island: Fred Thompson and the Rise of American Amusements 2001 Oxford University Press
Rhodes, Bill Circus and Carnival Trucks: 1923-2000 Photo Archive 2001 Iconografix, Hudson, WI
Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Circus Route Book, Season of 1948 1948 Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Circus
Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Circus Route Book, Season of 1951 1951 Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Circus
Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Circus Route Book, Season of 1953 1953 Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Circus
Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Circus Route Book, Season of 1954 1954 Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Circus
Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Circus Route Book, Season of 1955 1955 Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Circus
Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Circus Route Book, Season of 1965 1965 Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Circus
Ripley, Robert; Noskowski, Thomas Ripley's Believe it or Not!: Human Oddities 1977 Warner, New York
Rose, Jim Freak Like Me 1995 Dell, New York
Rosen, Fred Lobster Boy 2002 Pinnacle/Kensington, New York
Roth, Hy; Cromie, Robert The Little People 1980 Everest House, New York
Schoenknecht, John M., et al The Circus in Waukesha County 1998 Waukesha County Historical Society, WI
Scott, Barbara Bamberger With It: A Year On The Carnival Trail 2004 Behler, Lake Forest, CA
Sellman, Arthur Traveling Shows and Roundabouts 1975 Oakwood, Dorset, UK
Showmen's League of America Ladies Auxiliary America: From Sea to Shining Sea (Yearbook) 1976 L.A.S.L.A
Sparks, Christine Elephant Man 1986 Ballantine, New York
Steadman, Ralph Tales of the Weirrd 2002 Firefly, Ontario
Stencell, A. W. Girl Show: Into the Canvas World of Bump and Grind 2000 ECW, Toronto
Stencell, A. W. Seeing Is Believing: America's Side Shows 2002 ECW, Toronto
Stevenson, Jack Pandemonium: Freaks, Magicians, and Movie Stars 1989 Jack Stevenson, Cambridge, MA
Svenvold, Mark Elmer McCurdy: The Misadventures in Life and Afterlife of an American Outlaw 2002 Basic/Perseus, New York
Tate, Celestine Some Crawl and Never Walk 1995 Dorrance, Pittsburg
Taylor, James Shocked and Amazed: On and Off the Midway, Vol. 1 1995 Dolphin-Moon, Baltimore
Taylor, James Shocked and Amazed: On and Off the Midway, Vol. 2 1996 Dolphin-Moon, Baltimore
Taylor, James Shocked and Amazed: On and Off the Midway, Vol. 3 1996 Dolphin-Moon, Baltimore
Taylor, James Shocked and Amazed: On and Off the Midway, Vol. 4 1997 Dolphin-Moon, Baltimore
Taylor, James Shocked and Amazed: On and Off the Midway, Vol. 5 1998 Dolphin-Moon, Baltimore
Taylor, James Shocked and Amazed: On and Off the Midway, Vol. 6 2001 Dolphin-Moon, Baltimore
Taylor, James Shocked and Amazed: On and Off the Midway, Vol. 7 2003 Dolphin-Moon, Baltimore
Taylor, James; Kotcher, Kathleen James Taylor's Shocked and Amazed: On & Off the Midway 2002 Lyons, Guilford, CT
Taylor, James; Kotcher, Kathleen Shocked and Amazed: On and Off the Midway, Vol. 8 2005 Dolphin-Moon, Baltimore
Taylor, James; Kotcher, Kathleen Shocked and Amazed: On and Off the Midway, Vol. 9 2007 Dolphin-Moon, Baltimore
Taylor, Robert Lewis Center Ring: The People of the Circus 1956 Doubleday, Garden City, NY
Toole-Stott, Raymond English Circus Books: A Bibliography of Books on the Circus in English from 1773 to 1964 1964 Harpur, Derby, England
Trav; S. D. No Applause--Just Throw Money: The Book That Made Vaudeville Famous 2005 Faber & Faber, London
University of Kentucky Art of the Sideshow: Freaks Past and Present (Exhibition Catalogue) 1997 University of Kentucky
Unthan, Carl Herrmann The Armless Fiddler, A Pediscript: Being the Life Story of a Vaudeville Man, by C. H. Unthan 1935 G. Allen & Unwin
Vale, V.; Juno, Andrea Modern Primitives: An Investigation of Contemporary Adornment and Ritual 1989 Re/Search, San Francisco, CA
Wallace, Irving; Wallace, Amy The Two: The Story of the Original Siamese Twins 1978 Simon & Schuster, New York
Wilson, Gahan The Big Book of Freaks 1996 Paradox, New York
Wittke, Carl Tambo and Bones: A History of the American Minstrel Stage 1930 Duke University Press, Durham, NC
Wonder Book The Loves and Lives of the Hilton Sisters Wonder Book
Carnival & Sideshow Book Covers M-Z
Sideshow Ballys and Banners
Carnival & Sideshow Book Covers A-L
Carnival & Sideshow History Books by Category
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Pro Wrestling History
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1. Sideshow History, Attractions and Performers
The eleven categories are:

1. Sideshow History, Attractions, & Performers

2. Sideshow History, Attractions, & Performers (Pictorial Emphasis)

3. P. T. Barnum and the Dime Museum

4. History of the Wild West Show

5. History of the Medicine Show

6. Sideshow Academic: Anatomy, Disability, Natural History, Criticism

7. Sideshow Academic: Myths and Monsters

8. On Collecting Oddities

9. Carnivals and Sideshows in Art and Literature

10. Freaks in Film

11. Carnival Games



Carnival & Sideshow History Books
By Category
2. Sideshow History, Attractions and Performers (Pictorial Emphasis)

3. P. T. Barnum and the Dime Museum
4. History of The Wild West Show
5. History of the Medicine Show
6. Sideshow Academic: Anatomy, Disability,
Natural History, Criticism
7. Sideshow Academic: Myths and Monsters
8. On Collecting Oddities
9. Carnival & Sideshow in Art and Literature
10. Freaks in Film
11. Carnival Games
Carnival & Sideshow Books, Complete List

Carnival & Sideshow Books by Category

Carnival & Sideshow Book Covers, A-L

Carnival & Sideshow Book Covers, M-Z
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