Grady Franklin Stiles, Jr.

Originally posted on Exequy's Blog:

Grady Franklin Stiles, Jr. (June 26, 1937 – November 29, 1992) was a freak show performer. His deformity was ectrodactyly, where the fingers and toes are fused together to form claw-like extremities. Stiles’ stage name was the “Lobster Boy”.

Family history

The Stiles family had a long history of ectrodactyly. Stiles was the sixth in a line that began with the birth of William Stiles in 1805. Grady Stiles’ father was a sideshow attraction in a traveling ca...