grotesquerie

a strange or horrible and often frightening creature born Joseph Merrick, the so-called Elephant Man was for a time exhibited as a sideshow grotesquerie Synonyms grotesque, monster (also grotesquery), monstrosity, ogreRelated Words ogress; Frankenstein; bête noire, bogey (also bogie or bogy), bugaboo, bugbear; banshee, bogeyman (also bogyman), demon (or daemon), devil, fiend, fright, imp, incubus; horror, terror; abomination, anathema; abnormality, freak; mutant, mutation