The ladies stayed by his side and warned people to be quiet. His hair was a dirty gray color and he walked with a stoop, fingers hanging down around his knees. When they were ready, they stepped down from the stage and walked the hypnotized wolf-man through the theater. "The wolf-man will not be able to hurt you as long as we control him, but a loud sound could wake him up, and then he would be deadly!" "You must be very quiet," she said in a foreign accent. The wolf-man was yapping and howling when he first came out of the cage, until one of the ladies hypnotized him with her fingers. A few people looked scared but nobody left. That was the end of his speech and he walked offstage Two pretty women in shiny suits came on next and unlocked the door of the wolf-man's cage. This is not so! Every act you see tonight is real. Maybe they thought our freaks would be people in masks, or harmless misfits.
"I'm sure there are people who came tonight thinking this was a joke. "Those who are easily scared should leave now," he warned. Our lineup has changed many times, but never our aim, which is to astound and terrify you! We present acts both frightening and bizarre, acts you can find nowhere else in the world. "We have toured for five hundred years, bringing the grotesque to generation after generation. "Ladies and gentlemen," he said, and even though his voice was low and croaky, everybody could hear what he was saying, "welcome to the Cirque Du Freak, home of the world's most remarkable human beings. When he was sitting on his backside, the way dogs do, Mr. The wolf-man went on shaking the bars and jumping around, before calming down. I nearly screamed myself, except I didn't want to look like a baby. Lots more people screamed when he roared. He shook the bars of the cage and roared. His eyes were yellow and his teeth were red. He had a long bushy beard, which covered most of his face. He only wore a piece of cloth around his middle, like Tarzan, so we could see his hairy legs and belly and back and arms. He was very ugly, with hair all over his body. I think the people who screamed did it for fun, the way people scream on a roller coaster, not because they were actually afraid. The freak was pretty shocking, but he was chained up inside the cage.