Dark Carnival - The Secret World of Tod Browning, Hollywood's Master of the Macabre - David J. Skal - Paperback Bog - University of Minnesota Press -

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One of the most original and unsettling filmmakers of all time, Tod Browning (1880–1962) began his career buried alive in a carnival sideshow and saw his Hollywood reputation crash with the box office disaster–turned–cult classic Freaks. Penetrating the secret world of “the Edgar Allan Poe of the cinema,” Dark Carnival excavates the story of this complicated, fiercely private man.