Shocked and Amazed - On and Off the Midway

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SIDESHOW SITES

Showhistory.com
In one site, Showhistory.com is an attempt to compile snippets, full-length bios, pictures and assorted anecdotal information on EVERY novelty & variety performer and attraction in the history of such exhibition.

Sideshow World
Preserving the Past and Promoting the Future of Sideshow.

Matt's Carnival Warehouse
Discussion group

Carnival Midways
So you wanna know where the shows are? Carnival Midways has them ALL!

PERFORMERS

Bindlestiff Family Cirkus
In the spirit of P.T. Barnum and Coney Island, A Vaudevillainous Variety of Cirkus, Sideshow, and the Burlesque

Harley Newman, Professional Lunatic

Human Marvels Rock n Roll Stunt Show
Featuring Katzen, and the Enigma from the Jim Rose Sideshow!

Jim Rose Circus
News & Sightings, Tour Schedule, Mutant Museum, Freak Memorabilia, Fan Club, Reviews, Pictures & more!
Jim Rose's new book Snake Oil, (an encyclopedia of hustles) can now be bought from Bartleby Press.

The Lizardman -- Erik Sprague

Manuel the Wolf Boy's Page
EVERYBODY's looking for the wolf boys, well here's the whole family!

Michael Rosman

Mr. Lifto
Think Stretch Armstrong, only with his most male parts.

Pain Solution
Oslo-based suspension artists

www.shortdwarf.com
What do YOU think the site is about?

Sideshow Bennie

Zamora "The Torture King" - Tim Cridland
Formerly of the Jim Rose Circus Sideshow, the Torture King punches himself full of holes. Gotta see it to believe it!

Fiasco Sideshow

PERFORMANCE SPACES

James Taylor's Palace of Wonders

Coney Island U.S.A

Coney Island's "Burlesque at the Beach"

Coney Island's "Sideshows by the Seashore"
Bearded Women! Fire Eaters! and Freaks, Freaks, Freaks!

FESTIVALS, FAIRS and EVENTS

Bloomsburg Fair
Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania's Fair is one of the best old-timey Fairs still around

MUSEUMS

American Visionary Art Museum

American Dime Museum
The world's only exhibition, research, and performance space dedicated exclusively to variety and novelty entertainment

Baltimore Tattoo Museum

Barnum Museum

Johnny Fox's FREAKATORIUM
The World's Best Sword-Swallower now has a museum of his own!

Museum of Jurassic Technology

The Mutter Museum, College of Physicicians
The best museum in the world. They have a death cast of the original Siamese twins Cheng and Eng.

The Palace of Variety and Free Museum of Times Square

Pitt Rivers Museum

Ripley's Believe It Or Not! Museum
If we need to explain Ripley's to you, you've been living under a rock. Visit them all - start collecting now!

Sir John Soane's Museum

PROGRAMS

National Geographic Channel's Mummy Road Show

ORGANIZATIONS

Baltimore City Historical Society

FREAK FAN PAGES

The Elephant House
The life and times of Joseph Merrick, "The Elephant Man"

ThEnigma Fan Site
created by Jim Rose Circus Sideshow’s Katie “The Piledriver” Wilson

Jan Bruun's weblog

Joe's Freak Show
Pictures of human oddities, banners and other sideshow silliness!

Joe Bates Sideshow Discussion Board

Johnny's World
Eck-citing, Eck-cellent, Eck-tastic. Half boy Johnny Eck was from Baltimore, too. Do you think there is something in the water?

nurple dot com
Proudly presents the Side Show... Pickled Punks, Human Oddities,
Nature's Mistakes, Circus Carnival Sideshow Freaks, Living Human Curiosities, Monstrosities, Medical Abnormalities and more.

Prof. Ouch's Great American Sideshow Museum & Odditorium
You can call him Furry Couch or you can call him Prof. F. Ouch
or you can call him Mister Goofy Head, but CHECK OUT HIS SITE!

ARTISTS

Aye Jaye
This guy has mastered the art of the schmooze (he got us to include his link didn’t he?)

Banner Artist Mark Frierson
Cover artist for Shocked & Amazed Volumes 1 and 3!

Johnny Meah, the "Czar of Bizarre "

Planet Krulik
If there was a movie about SHOCKED AND AMAZED! Jeff Krulik would be the director

Prodigies: Anomalous Humans by James G. Mundie

sideshowbanners.com

Acme Miniature Flea Circus
A dog walked by the other day and stole the show!

Firebreathing FAQ
Warning: Do not try this at home. Neither Atomic Books nor Shocked and Amazed! will accept responsibility for your own stupidity.

The Circus of Horrors
We first heard about Circus of Horrors from its creator, circus great Gerry Cottle. If you visit the Isles and don't take in this show, you've missed the Rocky Horror Picture Show, Grand Guignol, Alice Cooper and Nightmare on Elm St. all rolled into one.

Mark Borkowski
One of "Publicist Extraordinaire" Mark Borkowski's hero's, Jim Moran, once said, "It's a sad day for American capitalism when you can't fly a midget from a kite over Central Park." And Mark proves him right every day. If you thought you knew from publicity stunts, you ain't seen nothin' yet.

BURLESQUE

Exotic World Burlesque Museum

G-Strings Forever!
Excellent site with tons of Burlesque links

Le Scandal New York Burlesque

The World Famous Pontani Sisters

Velvet Hammer Burlesque
Girls, Girls, Girls!

MAGICIANS

The Amazing Vanteen - Magician
"My Life As An Outdoor Showman." One of the great sideshow magicians, now you can read Vanteen's life story written by the man himself.

Denny Haney

Penn and Teller
The bad boys of magic, bunny in the chipper is still the coolest!

FREAKY SHOPPING

Atomic Books
"Literary Finds for Mutated Minds"

Denny & Lee Magic Studio
Denny Haney has our favorite magic shop in all the world. Especially at 11pm at night. Seven days a week, no less (magic never sleeps).

Jim Rose Circus of the Scars
Sideshow Book by Jan T. Gregor

Joe Petro's Sideshow Art
Affordable midway masterpieces. Now featuring Master Handsome's Library, the penultimate book list of all things freaky!

Mad Chicken Town

Market Magic in Seattle
Get your fake tongues here! You never know when you are going to need one.

Nightowl Books
Teenage Terrors! Delicious Delinquint Dolls! Mayhem! Madness! Monsters! Posters from the exploitation films available and ready for hanging!

Ye Olde Curiosity Shop

MORE FREAKY PLACES ON THE WEB

Backwash Magazine

Trepan.Com
You'd have holes in your head if you didn't like this site--dedicated exclusively to trepannation (self-inflicted holes in the head).

Live Deformed Frog Cam
Fantastic freak frogs!

Rotten.com
Tasteless, tasteless, tasteless--what's not to like about that?

Tattoo Charlies
Tattoo Charlies is the only place I know advertising "Tattoos
while you wait." In addition to having one of the coolest shops around (3 in Kentucky) they are awfully swell guys.

Whatever Happened to ...?
Newsletter dedicated to professional wrestling nostalgia.

Dr. Mysterian
Your future's just a click away. Don't let it be mysterious to you. Doc Mysterian knows all, tells all.

Wunder Pages
A collection of curiosites for study & grins