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unusual facts about freak show


Freak Show/Freak Show Soundtrack

Freak Show marked the beginning of The Residents' obsession with emerging computer technology in the 1990s.


Billy the Kid's Old Timey Oddities

Written by Eric Powell, with artwork provided by Kyle Hotz, the series teams Billy the Kid with members of a travelling freak show in a quest to retrieve a powerful object from the castle of Dr. Victor Frankenstein.

Howling VI: The Freaks

It does bear some similarities with the novel The Howling III: Echoes in both the freak show aspect and its sympathetic view of the werewolf, something otherwise only seen in the film series during Marsupials.

Magdalen Street

The whole of St Giles' and even Magdalen Street by Elliston and Cavell's right up to and beyond the War Memorial, at the meeting of the Woodstock and Banbury roads, is thick with freak shows, roundabouts, cake-walks, the whip, and the witching waves.

St Giles' Fair

The whole of St Giles' and even Magdalen Street by Elliston and Cavell's right up to and beyond the War Memorial, at the meeting of the Woodstock and Banbury roads, is thick with freak shows, roundabouts, cake-walks, the whip, and the witching waves.

The Carnivorous Carnival

Klaus refers to Joseph Merrick (incorrectly naming him "John Merrick") when discussing the cruelty of freak shows.

Zombiepowder.

Balmunk leads a gang of criminals with unusual powers based on traditional circus acts and freak shows, such as fire swallowing and the box-impalement trick.


see also

Bulgarian wedding music

Bulgarian wedding music was a source of inspiration on the "Freak Show Excess" song from his album Real Illusions: Reflections.

Gregory Gibson

Gibson’s third book Hubert's Freaks, is the story of Bob Langmuir, a gifted but troubled antiquarian book dealer whose headlong pursuit of the archive of a Times Square freak show led him to the discovery of a trove of hitherto unknown photographs by the great American photographer Diane Arbus.

NGEN Radio

# Jennifer Reyna and Chita Johnson of KPRC-TV and KHOU-TV respectively provide traffic and weather for the Afternoon Freak Show.