William Lindsay Gresham: 2 books
by William Lindsay Gresham
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
No Magician has captured the imagination of the World as did Harry Houdini, his very name become a byword for stunning, amazing escapes.
In this authoritative biography, acclaimed author and noted psychic sceptic, William Lindsay Gresham details the life of the great man. The strands of Houdini’s...
by William Lindsay Gresham
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2011
*Nightmare Alley *begins with an extraordinary description of a freak-show geek—alcoholic and abject and the object of the voyeuristic crowd’s gleeful disgust and derision—going about his work at a county fair. Young Stan Carlisle is working as a carny, and he wonders how a man could fall so...