The Freak Show - Edited by Peter Haining - 1971 Corgi Books Paperback - Bruce Pennington Cover

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Condition: Acceptable. Please see the images for more details. May show signs of wear such as:
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Cover art: Bruce Pennington

Blurb: “Magicians and murderers … Puppets and corpses … Carnivals and cannibals …

Grisly tales of fairgrounds - where the music of the carousel drowns screams of terror .....

Stories of dwarves and giants and ape-men: and puppets whose evil spirits dominate their masters .....

THE FREAK SHOW: A world of terror and the macabre ... peopled by weird and horrifying beings ......

Daniel Defoe - The Magician
Edgar Allan Poe - Hop-Frog
Tod Robbins - Spurs
Clark Ashton Smith - The Ampoi Giant
Ray Bradbury - The Dwarf
L. Sprague de Camp - The Gnarly Man
Mildred Clingerman - The Gay Deceiver
Davis Grubb - The Magic Prince
Stanley Ellen - Beiderbauer’s Flea
Fritz Leiber - The Power Of The Puppets
Joseph Payne Brennan - The Rising Man (Levitation)
John Wyndham - Jizzle
August Derleth - Carousel
Esther Carlson - Heads You Win
Robert Bloch - Girl From Mars
Harry Harrison - At Last, The True Story Of Frankenstein
Eric Frank Russell - Mutants For Sale
Margaret St. Clair - Horrer Howce
Harlan Ellison - Big Sam Was My Friend
Dylan Thomas - After The Fair