Carny Sideshows is popular PDF and ePub book, written by Tony Gangi in 2012-03-01, it is a fantastic choice for those who relish reading online the Reference genre. Let's immerse ourselves in this engaging Reference book by exploring the summary and details provided below. Remember, Carny Sideshows can be Read Online from any device for your convenience.

Carny Sideshows Book PDF Summary

Step right up, Ladies and Germs, and feast your eyes on the incomparable wonders of a hidden world! Be astonished! amazed! disgusted! by brazen acts of self-destruction that no natural human body should be able to withstand! Tony Gangi, professional magician, lifelong sideshow devotee, and card-carrying graduate of Coney Island's famed Sideshow School, guides you through the stupendous techniques and proud traditions of this shocking and fascinating realm of entertainment. • Learn the secrets behind Breathing Fire! Sword Swallowing! The Bed of Nails! Pounding Spikes into the Head! • Enter the mysterious worlds of the Snake Lady, the Human Blockhead, and more! • Meet sideshow greats like Melvin Burkhart and Ward Hall. • Discover today's dedicated entertainers, like Todd Robbins, Harley Newman, Tyler Fyre, Thrill Kill Jill, Donny Vomit, The Black Scorpion, and more! • See what it takes to enter this underground yet welcoming world as a performer. Features interviews with Penn Jillette and Todd Robbins and Penn Jillette's ode to the sideshow, the "10 in 1" monologue as performed by Penn & Teller Editors's Note: Not for the faint of heart, weak of stomach or easily grossed out. So go ahead, how can you resist?! Tony Gangi, a Philadelphia native, never actually intended to make his living by shoving nails up his nose. He left the corporate world to become a professional magician and proprietor of one of the few flea circuses remaining in the world ("Live fleas do, in fact, perform circus tricks," he says. They just need to be "trained the right way and treated with kindness.") He's now mastered straightjacket escapes, fire-eating, and napping on a bed of nails. He is currently working on his presentation for walking barefoot on broken glass. This is his first book. He hopes it is not his last.

Detail Book of Carny Sideshows PDF

Carny Sideshows
  • Author : Tony Gangi
  • Release : 01 March 2012
  • Publisher : Kensington Publishing Corp.
  • ISBN : 9780806535982
  • Genre : Reference
  • Total Page : 240 pages
  • Language : English
  • PDF File Size : 7,9 Mb

If you're still pondering over how to secure a PDF or EPUB version of the book Carny Sideshows by Tony Gangi, don't worry! All you have to do is click the 'Get Book' buttons below to kick off your Download or Read Online journey. Just a friendly reminder: we don't upload or host the files ourselves.

Get Book

Carny Sideshows

Carny Sideshows Author : Tony Gangi
Publisher : Kensington Publishing Corp.
File Size : 34,8 Mb
Get Book
Step right up, Ladies and Germs, and feast your eyes on the incomparable wonders of a hidden world! ...

Secrets of the Sideshows

Secrets of the Sideshows Author : Joe Nickell
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
File Size : 39,9 Mb
Get Book
The carnival sideshows of the past have left behind a fascinating legacy of mystery and intrigue. Th...

The Magician and the Cardsharp

The Magician and the Cardsharp Author : Karl Johnson
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
File Size : 14,9 Mb
Get Book
A famous magician's journey to find the greatest cardsharp ever evokes the forgotten world of magic ...

American Sideshow

American Sideshow Author : Marc Hartzman
Publisher : Penguin
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Get Book
A fascinating look into the history of the American sideshow and its performers. Learn what's real, ...

Sideshow

Sideshow Author : J. S. Frankel
Publisher : eXtasy Books
File Size : 7,6 Mb
Get Book
Irving (Irv) Isserlis, seventeen, is a sideshow archer, working for a small circus outfit based in t...

Secrets of the Sideshows

Secrets of the Sideshows Author : Joe Nickell
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
File Size : 13,6 Mb
Get Book
The carnival sideshows of the past have left behind a fascinating legacy of mystery and intrigue. Th...

The Phantom Twin

The Phantom Twin Author : Lisa Brown
Publisher : First Second
File Size : 26,5 Mb
Get Book
A young woman is haunted by the ghost of her conjoined twin, in Lisa Brown's The Phantom Twin, a swe...

Nightmare Alley

Nightmare Alley Author : William Lindsay Gresham
Publisher : New York Review of Books
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Get Book
Soon to be a major motion picture from Academy Award–winning director Guillermo del Toro and starr...

Nightmare Carnival

Nightmare Carnival Author : Ellen Datlow
Publisher : Open Road Media
File Size : 25,6 Mb
Get Book
Encounter the scariest clowns and freakiest curiosities under the big top, in stories by Stephen Gra...