wondermonger

Etymology

From wonder + monger.

wondermonger means One who deals in wondrous things. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 100 out of 100.

Why this word is great

WONDERMONGER — [Noun] One who deals in or tells of wondrous, strange, or freakish things. From wonder (meaning "a marvelous or astonishing thing") + monger (meaning "a dealer or trader in a specified commodity"). Unlike a wonderworker, who is credited with performing marvels, or a scaremonger, who trades exclusively in dread, the wondermonger is a merchant of awe, a broker of the bizarre for astonishment's own sake. He is the carny barker gesturing toward a two-headed calf in brine, the sailor sketching impossible sea-beasts on a damp napkin, the antiquarian displaying a fragment of 'dragon bone' in a velvet-lined case—a purveyor of that fragile currency of awe which exists in the space between belief and disbelief, reminding us that the desire to be awed is the most reliable market of all.

noun

One who deals in wondrous things.“[…] mechanical puzzles, juggling tricks, sensational dramas, and popular music — in a word, whatever a wondermonger can collect to allure the curious and idle many to amusement at small individual cost to them but lucrative to the showman.”