154 pp. Bizarrely fascinating illustrations by Boris Artzybasheff. The Circus of Dr. Lao is an irreverent, licentious, insolent, and wildly imaginative book. With his circus of legendary creatures - a hermaphroditic sphinx, a werewolf, a Gorgon, a unicorn, a Greek satyr, a rich assortment of chimeras and live virgins, and even Satan himself - Charles G. Finney creates an orgiastic nightmare fantasy that is horrifying, scintillating, and brilliantly unmerciful in its assault against the values of contemporary civilization. The Circus of Dr. Lao - here masterfully illustrated by Boris Artzybasheff - remains without peer in the annals of sardonic phantasmagoria.
