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Freaks and Fantasies
"Tod Robbins, athlete, socialite and author of a brace of remarkable horror stories, was born Clarence Aaron Robbins in Brooklyn, New York, on 25 June 1888.
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"Tod Robbins, athlete, socialite and author of a brace of remarkable horror stories, was born Clarence Aaron Robbins in Brooklyn, New York, on 25 June 1888. His grandfather, Aaron Robbins, was a successful merchant; his parents, Clarence and Eloise, were prominent members of New York society. In 1923, Munsey's Magazine published 'Spurs', which Tod Browning used as the basis of his notorious 1932 quasi-horror film Freaks. Browning and his writers took the basic set-up of Robbins's story--a beautiful circus performer marries a dwarf for the money he has inherited--and made many changes to it, including giving it a new and notably gruesome ending."--Amazon.com
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