 "Tent-Show
Bride"
by Jack Hanley
Intimate Novel #30, 1953
The back cover reads:
"When a marijuana scandal makes life intolerable for young Gay Leslie in
her home town, she runs off with a carnival show as ballyhoo girl. Soon,
in her innocence, she succumbs to the sweet talk and gorgeous body of Apollo,
the strong-man with the show. The the glamor of carnival life quickly disappears,
to be replaced by sordidness and cruelty. For Apollo turns out to be a
mighty lover--but also a jealous, calculating madman! He makes Gay perform
as the carnival stripper, each day forcing her to sink lower into degradation.
Gay cannot resist this cruel, queer love--nor his reckless exploitation
of her beauty. The giant is too strong, too dangerous! But she does find
a haven in the arms of another man--who struggles with Apollo to break
the fetters which enslave her..." Ahhhh, sideshow love! A bad girl with
a heart-of-gold forced to live with the shame of a reefer party scandal
does what every red-blooded youth does in times of trouble...she joins
the circus. She quickly falls for and marries the strongman Apollo, who
forces her into becoming the sideshow attraction known as "Venus," the
mythical beauty who shows all. But their love turns sour. What is the deep,
dark secret in Apollo's past? Will Venus ever be able to escape his dangerous
embrace? What other cruelties await this tortured beauty? It's love,
sex and murder at the traveling carnival. Just step right up and get your
ticket, because soon you will see things that will shock and amaze you!
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