A FREAKY circus show which staged an impromptu performance on Preston's Flag Market last year is heading back to the city with its outrageous show.

This time it will be playing to crowds at the Guild Hall, and Preston-born ring master and creator, John 'Doktor' Haze, of The Circus of Horrors, is hoping it will be a sellout.

The circus has played to thousands across the globe, but John says that performing in Preston means more to him than any of the international tours he has done.

"I have always wanted to put the show on in Preston, I am delighted we will be coming to my home town on the tenth anniversary of the show," said the ardent PNE fan.

"We have played to people in Japan, in Argentina, and in venues across Lancashire but never properly in Preston.

"It means more to me than any of the shows abroad, it is very special for me."

The show includes death defying trapeze artists, a pickled person emerging from a tiny bottle, sword swallowers, and a vampire flying through the air suspended by her hair.

"I just know the people of Preston will love it, I guess you could say it is to circus what Rocky Horror show is to musicals.

"Yes it's outrageous, but it's supposed to be," added Doktor Haze.

The show was first performed at Glastonbury in 1995, and has gone from strength to strength both nationally and internationally.

It has appeared on television's Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway, and has performed on stage with stars including Oasis and Eminem.

John, 44, who lives in London, was introduced to the circus by his performing parents.

He lived with his mother in Ingol, until the age of 12 when his parents, who had split up when he was a baby, got back together and they hit the road with the circus.

"I learnt to eat fire in a day, and I am still eating fire more than 30 years later."

The Circus of Horrors will be in Preston, on November 11, as part of a 60 date tour from November to March.