Scrapbook of Agnes Schwarzenbacher:
The Rubber Skin Lady
Scrapbook of Agnes Schwarzenbacher: The Rubber Skin Lady faithfully reproduces the scrapbook kept by one of sideshow’s biggest stars of the 1930s. It includes numerous photos of Agnes, her family, her friends in the sideshow, newspaper clippings related to performances and other sideshow news, and more.
This is a book I’ve been wanting to make for more than ten years, ever since Agnes’s great niece first reached out to me about it. During the pandemic I finally had time to put it together and write an introduction along with brief biographies of most performers seen throughout the book.
This very limited edition is a perfect addition to any sideshow/circus/oddities collection.
“Your book is a virtual time capsule of images never before seen. An absolute treasure and a must for anyone interested in the history of the American Sideshow!”
-Kevin Gerrone, sideshow artist, historian, and author
The Talking Dead: A Collection of Messages From Beyond the Veil, 1850s to 1920s
If the dead could talk, what would they say? According to mediums during the height of Spiritualism, a lot.
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, psychics were busy delivering a cornucopia of messages from beyond the veil, including many from some of world’s greatest luminaries. Hear all about the afterlife straight from William Shakespeare, Mark Twain, Edgar Allan Poe, Washington Irving, Abraham Lincoln, Benjamin Franklin, and other spirits living it up in death in this most unusual collection of writing.
Editor Marc Hartzman guides readers through these post-mortem communications across three main sections:
Spirit Teachings – What is the afterlife like? What is God like? Do we have to eat? Drink? Where do we live? The answers to these questions, and many more, await the living.
Afterlives of the Rich and Famous – How are the world’s greatest writers enjoying life on the Other Side? What new works have they had time to author? And what advice did our most beloved presidents have for America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century?
Heaven on Mars – Forget Heaven on Earth, according to one medium, Heaven is on Mars. Read all about it in one very thorough description from a spirit living on the Red Planet.
Stereoview Sideshow Trading Cards
Knife throwers, sword swallowers, and other sideshow performers are seen in 3D in this trading card set photographed by me, and produced by Frank Eachus Publishing. Each set comes with a fold-up stereoviewer.
Curious Publications.
Books for the unlike-minded.
I started Curious Publications as a way to give new life to weird and wonderful public domain books that have been lost to obscurity, as well as to create a home for new passion projects with strange and unusual themes.