Some call them freaks, human oddities and monters but I call them human marvels.

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© 2001 – 2012, J Tithonus Pednaud. All rights reserved.

RECOMMENDED READING

American Sideshow: An Encyclopedia

Freak Show: Presenting Human Oddities for Amusement and Profit

Sideshow U.S.A.: Freaks and the American Cultural Imagination

Jay's Journal of Anomalies

Freaks, Geeks, and Strange Girls

Pickled Punks & Girlie Shows: A Life Spent on the Midways of America

The Lives and Loves of Daisy and Violet Hilton: A True Story of Conjoined Twins

The Circus Age: Culture and Society under the American Big Top

Freakery: Cultural Spectacles of the Extraordinary Body

James Taylor's Shocked and Amazed: On & Off the Midway




THE AUTHOR

J Tithonus Pednaud has dedicated this site to highlighting the remarkable lives of those born exceedingly different. These so-called freaks and human oddities stand as uplifting testaments to human spirit and serve as inspiring examples of human tenacity.

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