![]() ![]() Along with many trips to Coney Island as it is today, including the Coney Island Museum, these were the books that really helped me feel it. ![]() (Sigmund Freud reportedly said that Coney Island was the only thing of interest to him in America). A dark, twisty modern fairytale where three sisters discover they are not exactly all that they seem and evil things really do go bump in the night. During my years of research, I needed to immerse myself in the history and culture of America’s trippiest, naughtiest seaside playground, with its amusement parks, freak shows, sideshows, hijinks, and hanky panky. Bizarre as it seems, and despite Martin Couney’s many fabrications, he was the rightful father of American neonatology, not only getting rich but also saving thousands of children when the medical establishment couldn’t or wouldn’t do it: Some of his patients are still alive. The “doctor” ran infant incubator sideshows for forty years at Coney Island (among other places) where the public would pay to view tiny preemies. However, Sutherland tries to connect it with sexual harassment and abuse. Couney: How a Mysterious European Showman Saved Thousands of American Babies. The Hollow sisters are beautiful but how is their beauty dangerous and equivalent with death It creates ominous mystery and cleverly connects it to nature which is a central tenet of this book as well. I’m the author of five books, the most recent of which is The Strange Case of Dr. ![]()
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