Zamora the Torture King

Zamora the Torture King is the stage name of Tim Cridland, an American sideshow performer.^[1]^[2] Zamora was an original member of the Jim Rose Circus, where he performed painful feats as entertainment. His stunts include fire eating, sword swallowing, body skewering and electric shock.^[3] Zamora co-authored (with Jan Gregor) Circus of the Scars, a history of the Jim Rose Circus. In 2022 Gregor produced a 96 minute documentary with the same title, featuring Cridland and other stars of the circus.^[4]

Zamora has been featured on Ripley's Believe It or Not!, 48 Hours, Man Vs Weird and Stan Lee's Superhumans.

^ Nickell, Joe (2005). Secrets of the Sideshows. University Press of Kentucky. pp. 236–237. ISBN 9780813123585.
^ Hartzman, Marc (21 September 2006). American Sideshow: An Encyclopedia of History's Most Wondrous and Curiously Strange Performers. Penguin. pp. 243–246. ISBN 978-1-58542-530-3.
^ Favazza, Armando R. (2 May 2011). Bodies under Siege: Self-mutilation, Nonsuicidal Self-injury, and Body Modification in Culture and Psychiatry. Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 208. ISBN 978-1-4214-0111-9.
^ Kay, Tony (19 May 2023). "SIFF 2023: Circus of the Scars Revisits Jim Rose's crazed Circus Sideshow". The SunBreak.

[1] Nickell, Joe (2005). Secrets of the Sideshows. University Press of Kentucky. pp. 236–237. ISBN 9780813123585.

[2] Hartzman, Marc (21 September 2006). American Sideshow: An Encyclopedia of History's Most Wondrous and Curiously Strange Performers. Penguin. pp. 243–246. ISBN 978-1-58542-530-3.

[3] Favazza, Armando R. (2 May 2011). Bodies under Siege: Self-mutilation, Nonsuicidal Self-injury, and Body Modification in Culture and Psychiatry. Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 208. ISBN 978-1-4214-0111-9.

[4] Kay, Tony (19 May 2023). "SIFF 2023: Circus of the Scars Revisits Jim Rose's crazed Circus Sideshow". The SunBreak.

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