People/Characters John Merrick

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I, Partridge: We Need To Talk About Alan by Steve Coogan
The Pirates!: An Adventure with Scientists & An Adventure with Ahab by Gideon Defoe
A Taste for Monsters by Matthew J. Kirby
The Raj Quartet, Volume 2: The Towers of Silence; A Division of the Spoils by Paul Scott
The Big Book of Freaks by Gahan Wilson
A Whisper in the Dark by Linda Castillo
The Elephant Man and Other Reminiscences by Sir Frederick Treves
Shipwrecked [1990 film] by Nils Gaup
The Circus Infinitus: Stories, Volume 1 by Ethan Somerville
lebendige Maske 2 \| 1980 by Kryolan GMBH

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Joseph Carey Merrick (1862-1890), often known as John Merrick, was an Englishman with a severe physical disease of unknown origin, which deformed his body so radically that he was forced to find work as a human exhibit named the Elephant Man.