Publisher: Corinth Publications, San Diego[Rudolph Grey detailed: "When Karl the Abominable Snowman escapes from a carnival, a series of gruesome murders ensues. Change from the original title Naked Bones as more marketable for the paperback trade, Side-Show Siren is possibly the first of Wood’s carnival novels. It resembles films like The Ape (with Boris Karloff, Monogram, 1940) and Circus of Horrors (AIP, 1960). The character of Jinx Dixon, a cowboy sharpshooter, is modeled after Wood’s close friend, Kenne Duncan." One-time Republic Pictures contract actor, Kenne "Horsecock" Duncan was, according to Grey, "known and billed as ‘the meanest man in the movies.’"]