Freak Show

Freak Show Poster - The Stupendous Strongman Created in Photoshop CC & Illustrator

Turn off the Monster Mash and turn this year's Halloween party into a Freak Show, #AmericanHorrorStory style!

'Freak Shows' were a popular form of entertainment between the 16th and 19th Centuries. Despite changing attitudes towards disabilities our 21st Century society is itself a 'Freak Show'.

Turn off the Monster Mash and turn this year's Halloween party into a Freak Show, #AmericanHorrorStory style!

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Vintage Circus Freak Show Oddities

Here at Thrillvania we’re ecstatic over the news that American Horror Story Season 4 will revolve around a carnival freak show. A haunted house? An asylum with an evil Nazi doctor? A coven of witches with super powers? They’ve all been done before. But, what could be more deliciously terrifying than a Halloween party […]

People have always been fascinated by the strange and weird, and this fascination found a thriving home in the circus sideshows of the past two centuries. The banners that advertised the wonders within were hand painted with vibrant colors and images that would draw even the most morally upright into the mysteries of the sideshow.

Real Name: Josephine-JosephTime Frame: Early 1900sAmazing Fact: Though it is unknown whether the individual was truly a hermaphrodite or rather a skilled impersonator, Josephine-Joseph's half-man/half-woman body landed her/him a role in the 1932 film Freaks, where she/he famously begin the chant, "We accept her, we accept her. One of us, one of us."

AHS freak show entrance