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    The Book of the Bizarre: Freaky Facts and Strange Stories

    By Varla Ventura

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    Did you know duck dander is hallucinogenic? Or that Katherine Hepburn had a phobia of dirty hair? Have you ever wondered about the Magickal Skull of Doom or contemplated the mysterious Transylvanian Tablets? The Book of the Bizarre is a veritable treasure trove of startling and strangerthanfiction trivia that spans history, continents, even worlds. Never before have so many truly frightful facts been gathered together in one place. Teeming with the strange, the shocking, and the downright fantastic, The Book of the Bizarre's thirteen chapters include: Something Wicked: Mysterious Objects & Haunted Homes, Tender Murderers and Malevolent Males: Killingly Good Tales of Terror, and Morbid Writers and Tortured Artists: From Edgar Allan Poe to Vincent Van Gogh. Terrifying topics range from Corpses on Campus to Strange Rock and Roll Stories to Medical Maladies, Conspiracy Theories, Superstitions, Hexes, and even UFO's. The Book of the Bizarre is designed for the depraved, outlandish enough for the eccentric, and freaky enough for even the hardest trivia nut.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRed Wheel Weiser
    Release dateOct 1, 2008
    ISBN9781609250539
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    The Book of the Bizarre: Freaky Facts and Strange Stories
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    Varla Ventura

    Varla Ventura is the author of Varla Ventura’s Paranormal Parlor: Ghosts, Seances and Tales of True Hauntings, as well as Fairies, Pookas, and Changelings: A Complete Guide to the Wild & Wicked Enchanted Realm, along with several other books on spooky ooky stuff.  She can often be found lurking about the deep dark woods, lakes, streams and parlors on the hunt for beastly things and hidden history. Visit her online at www.varlaventura.net

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    • 5/5
      ''Nothing beats a haunted moonlit night on All Hallows'Eve...And on this fatal night, at this witching time, the starless sky laments black and unmoving. The somber hues of an ominous, dark forest are suddenly illuminated under the emerging force of the full moon.''
      - Kim Elizabeth

      I consider myself a rather sceptic person when it comes to the Paranormal and the Supernatural, but I'm an avid reader of every book that deals with the subject. From time to time, I even watch these funny ''ghost'' shows, if only just to see to what extent the researchers will go either to prove the spirits' existence or to disprove it. In any case, regardless whether you are a believer or not, this is a very entertaining and informative book.

      Here, we find some well-known ghost stories (and plenty more obscure ones), references to haunted graveyards and urban legends, but what I enjoyed immensely was the fact that the writer didn't limit herself to the supernatural element. She also included strange -bizarre, indeed- facts of deaths, disasters and other fateful cases that have been recorded as actual events. For instance, the section devoted to starnge -and mostly lethal- coincidences is particularly chilling. It makes you contemplate on that weird and incoherent thing we call ''fate''.

      The writing style is relaxed but well-composed, clear and to the point. There are snipets of information, but they are enough to attract the readers' interest and make them search for more references. Like a paranormal treasure hunt, one event leads to another. Dark quotes by well-known historical and intellectual figures are also included, dealing with the human nature.

      ....Human nature...perhaps, the most bizarre thing of all....
    • 3/5
      This was fun. I love this kind of stuff. Facts and legends about ghosts, famous people, cults, diseases, aliens, unsolved mysteries, etc... I read this stuff hoping that it will leak into my writing and sound more real. And to sound cool at parties. Kinda like the Pac-Man line in "Scott Pilgrim vs the World".This is the perfect bathroom book.
    • 3/5
      Not really a book about freaky facts. Just pretty basic. Some pretty cool facts. Just maybe more on a 5th grader level facts. Good conversational pieces.
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    • 4/5
      Interesting.....though further clarification on some of the facts and stories was in order.
    • 4/5
      This book covers a wide range of facts and stories. It covers a lot of paranormal stories, and simply weird facts.