Step Right Up!: I'm Gonna Scare The Pants Off America

7 best books like Step Right Up!: I'm Gonna Scare The Pants Off America (William Castle): The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick, The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper, Frogcatchers, Experimental Film, Cotton Tenants: Three Families, The Card: Collectors, Con Men, and the True Story of History's Most Desired Baseball Card, The Bloom County Library, Vol. 1: 1980-1982

The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick

Author

Mallory O'Meara

The Lady from the Black Lagoon uncovers the life and work of Milicent Patrick—one of Disney’s first female animators and the only woman in history to create one of Hollywood’s classic movie monsters.

As a teenager, Mallory O’Meara was thrilled to discover that one of her favorite...

The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper

Author

Hallie Rubenhold

Five devastating human stories and a dark and moving portrait of Victorian London—the untold lives of the women killed by Jack the Ripper.

Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine and Mary-Jane are famous for the same thing, though they never met. They came from Fleet Street, Knightsbridge,...

Frogcatchers

Author	Jeff Lemire
ISBN	1982107375

Experience a surreal descent into one man’s psychosis in this haunting and chilling graphic novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Roughneck and Sweet Tooth, “the Stephen King of comics” (Maclean’s).

A man wakes up alone in a strange room with no recollection of who he...

Experimental Film

Author	Gemma Files
ISBN	1771483490

Experimental Film is a contemporary ghost story in which former Canadian film history teacher Lois Cairns-jobless and depressed in the wake of her son's autism diagnosis-accidentally discovers the existence of lost early 20th century Ontario filmmaker Mrs. A. Macalla Whitcomb. By deciding to...

Cotton Tenants: Three Families

Author	James Agee
ISBN	1612192122

A re-discovered masterpiece of reporting by a literary icon and a celebrated photographer

In 1941, James Agee and Walker Evans published Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, a four-hundred-page prose symphony about three tenant farming families in Hale County, Alabama at the height of the Great...

The Card: Collectors, Con Men, and the True Story of History's Most Desired Baseball Card

Author	Michael O'Keeffe
ISBN	0061123927

Since its limited release just after the turn of the twentieth century, this American Tobacco cigarette card has beguiled and bedeviled collectors. First identified as valuable in the 1930s, when the whole notion of card collecting was still young, the T206 Wagner has remained the big score for collectors...

The Bloom County Library, Vol. 1: 1980-1982

Author	Berkeley Breathed
ISBN	1600105319

Berkley Breathed's Bloom County was one of the most popular and critically acclaimed newspaper strips of all time. Bloom County ran from December 8th, 1980 to August 6th, 1989 and was published in an astounding 1200 newspapers on a daily basis. The huge popularity of Bloom County spawned a merchandizing...