Freaks

Via mefi, the Freakatorium Museum.

Some of my favourite books:

Fiction
Geek Love
Cultural Studies
Freaks: We Who Are Not as Others
Sideshow USA: Freaks and the American Cultural Imagination
Freak Show: Presenting Human Oddities for Amusement and Profit
Freakery: Cultural Spectacles of the Extraordinary Body
The Big Book of Freaks
Freaks Talk Back: Tabloid Talk Shows and Sexual Nonconformity

I'm also looking forward to Monsters: Human Freaks in America's Gilded Age: The Photographs of Chas Eisenmann

Contemporary Freaks: I've seen these folks four times and enjoyed it each time. But I really have a thing for sword-swallowers and fire-eaters. Erotic like bull-fighting...