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curiosities, natural history, anatomy, deformities, conjoined twins, amputation, the donner party, medical antiques, freaks, taxidermy, cannibals, ferns, insects, meat, carnie folk, animals in victorian dress, skin diseases, old prints of rainforests and dinosaurs in swamps, goliath beetles, skulls, red coral, stereoviews, locks, deep sea divers, tide pools, darwin, giants, midgets, lotus slippers, cabinets of curiosities, extra digits and limbs, glaciers, birds, dust, skeleton keys, scissors, chernobyl children, poison labels and bottles, seahorses, cactus, geishas, composition dolls, dried goods, old frames, hooves, carnivorous plants, urchins, wheelchairs, the potter museum, prosthetic limbs, old farm animal masks, stalactites, turtle shells, canvas, silk screens, tintypes, the titanic, cabinet cards, zeppelins, sea creatures, hospitals, antlers, riker mounts, shark jaws, tribal jewelry, old jars, seba prints, contortionists, natural disasters, the burns archive, bones, sideshows, specimens: in resin, bottled, pinned, dried, stuffed, etc., meat hooks, museums, dentures, rust, medical cabinets, corsets, leg braces, entomology, natives, rhinos, anatomical charts, coffins, post mortem photography, dissection, insane fetishes(i'm not talking latex here kids, more like amputation, equine and other animal fetishes, siamese twin lust...) to be continued.....
you. beautiful freaks.
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thanks!
oh, i suppose i should get around to this. i don't work in silence that's for sure. until then, essential monsters does have a couple of patron saints:
buzz osborne
adam jones
thanks guys!
the cameraman's revenge, the brothers quay, twin falls idaho, chang, dead ringers, jeunet et caro, freaks, the elephant man, winged migration, jaws, georges melies, 20,000 leagues under the sea, peter greenaway, amadeus... ..
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