Sideshow & Oddities is the second volume in the Curtainfall series — a haunting collection of engraved art and ghostly verse that brings strange beauty back into focus. Inspired by the tradition of hobo nickels, this book transforms Buffalo coins into portraits of the overlooked and unforgettable. Conjoined twins, tattooed skeletons, boneless wonders, and smoke-swallowing spirits are etched into metal, each paired with a poetic story or eerie vignette. These are not sideshow attractions. They are souls made visible.

Over 30 original black-and-white engravings tell the stories of figures once labeled freaks or forgotten entirely. But here, they are honored. Their ribs become instruments, their skulls carry ink, their bones hold riddles no tent could silence. Sideshow & Oddities is a celebration of sacred strangeness, where every coin refuses to whisper and instead speaks clearly — of survival, spectacle, and spirit. This is not a book about pity. It is a resurrection.