Sideshow: Ten Original Tales of Freaks, Illusionists and Other Matters Odd and Magical

by Deborah Noyes (Editor)

Other authors: David Almond (Contributor), Aimee Bender (Contributor), Cecil Castellucci (Contributor), Shawn Cheng (Contributor), Annette Curtis Klause (Contributor) — 5 more, Margo Lanagan (Contributor), Danica Novgorodoff (Contributor), Matt Phelan (Contributor), Cynthia Leitich Smith (Contributor), Vivian Vande Velde (Contributor)

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Ten original tales by modern-day masters of the bizarre. Meet mediums and mummies, spinsters and bearded ladies, circus freaks and monsters of every sort!

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If sideshows or just weird stories interest you, this is a good one to breeze through in an afternoon. Ten original short stories and comics about bearded girls, fortune tellers, and mummy girls. Each story is well written and engaging, although kind of predicatble in that Twilight Zone way. My favorites: "The Bearded Girl" (Aimee Bender), "When God Came to Kathleen's Garden" (David Almond) "Jargo!" (Matt Phelan) and "The Bread Box" (Cecil Casellucci), though every one of them are unique (and odd) in their own special way. More fiction like this would be great. A sequel? (

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Author name	Role	Type of author	Work?	Status
Noyes, Deborah	Editor	primary author	all editions	confirmed
Almond, David	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Bender, Aimee	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Castellucci, Cecil	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Cheng, Shawn	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Klause, Annette Curtis	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Lanagan, Margo	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Novgorodoff, Danica	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Phelan, Matt	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Smith, Cynthia Leitich	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Vande Velde, Vivian	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed

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