Essential Monsters and Freaks Show

... is an Oakland, California based company, a forerunner of the steampunk fashion revolution. Essential Monsters makes t-shirts, hoodies, bags, pin sets, wallets and other one-of-a-kind goodies. Some items are currently for sale at the website. Essential Monsters has worked with the Melvins on limited edition tour tees, codesigned tour tees and tote bags... and they even have made tees for Aerosmith to wear on tour in Japan!

Essential Monsters designs the images, burns the screens, hand inks the items, makes the pins and hand sews details and tags.

Essential Monsters offers free first class shipping for domestic orders, but priority mail shipping is available for an extra cost. California state residents must pay sales tax. They do ship abroad also. You need to email Essential Monsters before you place your order with the items you would like and to calculate shipping costs.

Essential Monsters has a wide range of interests. They include: curiosities, natural history, anatomy, deformities, conjoined twins, amputation, the donner party, medical antiques, freaks, taxidermy, cannibals, ferns, insects, meat, carnie folk, animals in victorian dress, skin diseases, old prints of rainforests and dinosaurs in swamps, goliath beetles, skulls, red coral, stereoviews, locks, deep sea divers, tide pools, darwin, giants, midgets, lotus slippers, cabinets of curiosities, extra digits and limbs, glaciers, birds, dust, skeleton keys, scissors, poison labels and bottles, seahorses, cactus, geishas, composition dolls, dried goods, old frames, hooves, carnivorous plants, urchins, wheelchairs, the potter museum, prosthetic limbs, old farm animal masks, stalactites, turtle shells, canvas, silk screens, tintypes, the titanic, cabinet cards, zeppelins, sea creatures, hospitals, antlers, riker mounts, shark jaws, tribal jewelry, old jars, seba prints, contortionists, natural disasters, the burns archive, bones, sideshows, meat hooks, museums, dentures, rust, medical cabinets, corsets, leg braces, entomology, natives, rhinos, anatomical charts, coffins, post mortem photography, dissection, insane fetishes and specimens: in resin, bottled, pinned, dried, stuffed, etc.