Gary Cross - Freak Show Legacies

Studio publicity shot of Tod Browning and sideshow performers in Freaks

Theatrical poster advertising Night of the Living Dead

Woodcut of a two-headed monster c. 1495

P.T. Barnum and General Tom Thumb, c. 1850

Krao, The Missing Link

Cover of History of Sexual Wonders: The Great Lala Coolah (1916)

Oft-published image of the Frank Lentini as a young man with his parasitical twin

Cover of Isaac W. Sprague, The Living Skeleton (1870)

Giraffe Burmese Women at leisure from their circus sideshow in London

Drawings of Robert Ripley from Believe it or Not (1929)

The conjoined twins Violet and Daisy Hilton as young performers

An example of the trend toward the grotesque in carnival sideshows

Grace McDaniels (18881958), victim of elephantiasis of the lip

A geek performing at a fair in Donaldsonville, Louisiana, 1938

Famed sideshow impresario Ward Hall (with the red top hat), shown in 2002 with cast members

Admiral Dot, c. 1875

Tom Thumb, c. 1848, dressed to impress his genteel audience

Lady Little, The Doll Lady, c. 1911

Three of the Doll family, c. 1924

Anita The Living Doll, c. 1910

Schaefers Fairy Tale Town, 1933, in Lubeck, Germany

Ed Big Daddy Roths Beatnik Bandit customized car, 1960

Classic poster from the grindhouse cinema

Poster for The Screaming Skull (1958)

A gathering of costumed fans for the final viewing of Rocky Horror Picture Show at the Roxy Theater in Toronto (May 8, 1983)

The Enigma

Latter-day Coney Island freak show (2006)

A promotional poster for Universals 1935 remake of the famous Frankenstein by Karoly Grosz

Poster for I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957)

Zombies on the march in Night of the Living Dead, 1968

Cast of Texas Chainsaw Massacre posing in costume (1974)

Robert Englund portrayed as Freddy Krueger in A Nightmare on Elm Street, c. 1989