# The Barnum Museum

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- Book: [The Barnum Museum](https://www.bookquiver.com/steven-millhauser/the-barnum-museum) ([The Barnum Museum.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/steven-millhauser/the-barnum-museum.md))
- Authors: [Steven Millhauser](https://www.bookquiver.com/steven-millhauser)
- Publisher: corsair
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-7215-106-3
- Published: 2015-10-01
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

The Barnum Museum is a combination waxworks, masked ball, and circus sideshow masquerading as a collection of short stories. Within its pages, note such sights as: a study of the motives and strategies used by the participants in the game of Clue, including the seduction of Miss Scarlet by Colonel Mustard; the Barnum Museum, a fantastic, monstrous landmark so compelling that an entire town finds its citizens gradually and inexorably disappearing into it; a bored dilettante who constructs an imaginary woman - and loses her to an imaginary man! - and a legendary magician so skilled at sleight-of-hand that he is pursued by police for the crime of erasing the line between the real and the conjured.