The Horrific Sufferings of the Mind-Reading Monster Hercules Barefoot: His Wonderful Love and His Terrible Hatred

Chronicles the lifelong love between the children of two prostitutes--Henriette, a healthy young girl, and Hercules, a hideously deformed boy--as Hercules endures a life of social oppression, corruption, and religious persecution during his sojourn with the grotesques in a freak show, a stay in a sinister Jesuit monastery, and confinement in an asylum. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.