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Step right up, folks, and prepare to have your blood run cold as
you meet the strangest, most bizarre trio of misfits ever spawned
by a carnival of blood: TWEEDLEDEE, an adult man trapped in the
body of a three-year-old toddler, whose mask of childlike innocence
hides a seething brain plotting hideous revenge against all that is
sane and normal HERCULES, the circus strongman, brutal, bestial,
revelling in carnage and murder - yet the submissive slave of a
deadly dwarf ECHO, the expert ventriloquist with the uncanny
ability to throw his voice so that lifeless wooden dummies seem to
speak even as you or I Together, they are THE UNHOLY THREE, star
attractions of Tod Robbins' classic novel of hate, murder and
madness on and off the midway. Best known as author of the story
which inspired the still-controversial fear-film FREAKS, Robbins
first stunned the public with this intense account of a ruthless
war on society waged by a triad of carny castaways.
This early work by Tod Robbins was originally published in 1919 and
we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography
as part of our Cryptofiction Classics series. 'The Whimpus' is a
short story of a race of mermaid-like fish women. Clarence Aaron
'Tod' Robbins was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1888. Robbins is
largely forgotten today; apart from 'Spurs', most of his writings
have been out of print for over half a century. Some critics see
this as a great shame, and regard Robbins as an important writer in
the canons of horror and mystery fiction.
Tod Robbins' 'Spurs' centres on the macabre consequences of a
circus romance between a midget performer and a bareback rider. The
basis for the Tod Browning film Freaks, it is a weird classic of
early 20th century horror.Many of the horror stories of monsters
and ghouls, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before,
are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are
republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality,
modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
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