Shocked and Amazed Vol 9 out now

The thing you’ve been waiting for with bated breath, the thing around which your love of variety revolves:
Volume 9 of SHOCKED AND AMAZED! is now available!

In its grand and glorious – and new, new, new! – pages, you’ll find:


• Blow-out interviews with cover boy Tim “Zamora the Torture King” Cridland, one of the most extreme performers on the planet; Manuel King, billed in his day as “The World’s Youngest Animal Trainer”; and Karen Forsythe, 10-in-1 worker in the old days and once-girlfriend of Popeye!

• A major photo essay on the Bros. Grim Sideshow, one of the only old-time 10-in-1 shows, a faithful recreation of the carnival & circus sideshows from the 1930s!

• Up close & friendly instructions on how to create your very own fakir act! (Just don’t try this at our house!)

• A truly revealing detective tale on tracking the real Joseph Pujol, a.k.a. Le Pétomane, the original fartomaniac!

• The tale of “Snake” King, the man who supplied nearly every carnival show in his day with the most exotic animal attractions!

• Major pieces on the history of both minstrel & medicine shows!

• The latest installments from NEW editor D.B. Denholtz on the history of Hubert’s museum in NYC; Walt Hudson’s scintillating “Coney Island Baby”; and the rarest of rare pictures of 19th century variety as showcased in “The Strand”!

• and let's not fail to mention fantastic cover art by Mark Frierson and illustrations by Kevin Gerrone and James Mundie


Hey, it’s a volume as un-PC as we could make it, and it’s all for you. And it’s already being called our best looking – and best reading – volume in the brand’s history, so why don’t your find out for yourself?

And you may see it elsewhere, but go NOWHERE else for you ultimate fix but www.shockedandamazed.com. If you get it somewhere else, well, it just ain’t YOUR best guide to the weird, the bizarre, the strange, the odd and the unusual, your SHOCKED AND AMAZED!

posted by M.A.R.T. at 7:23 PM