Pity the monsters
Richard Altick, 18 December 1980
The Elephant Man: the Book of the Film
by Joy Kuhn.
Virgin, 90 pp., £6.95, October 1980,9780907080091 Show More
by Joy Kuhn.
Virgin, 90 pp., £6.95, October 1980,
The Elephant Man and Other Reminiscences
by Frederick Treves.
Star, 126 pp., £95, August 1980,0 352 30747 1 Show More
by Frederick Treves.
Star, 126 pp., £95, August 1980,
The Elephant Man and Other Freaks
by Sian Richards.
Futura, 197 pp., £1.25, October 1980,0 7088 1927 3 Show More
by Sian Richards.
Futura, 197 pp., £1.25, October 1980,
The True History of the Elephant Man
by Michael Howell and Peter Ford.
Allison and Busby, 190 pp., £6.95, March 1980,0 85031 353 8 Show More
by Michael Howell and Peter Ford.
Allison and Busby, 190 pp., £6.95, March 1980,
“... The thing arose slowly and let the blanket that covered its head and back fall to the ground. There stood revealed the most disgusting specimen of humanity that I have ever seen. In the course of my profession I had come upon lamentable deformities of the face due to injury or disease, as well as mutilations and contortions of the body depending upon like causes; but at no time had I met with such a degraded or perverted version of a human being as this lone figure displayed ... ”
