num_pages: 320
description: “Imagine if Monty Python wrote the Mayo Clinic Family Health Book, and you sort of get the idea. Afraid you’re afflicted with an unknown malady? Finally you have a place to turn!” —Book SenseYou hold in your hands the most complete and official guide to imaginary ailments ever assembled—each disease carefully documented by the most stellar collection of speculative fiction writers ever to play doctor. Detailed within for your reading and diagnostic pleasure are the frightening, ridiculous, and downright absurdly hilarious symptoms, histories, and possible cures to all the ills human flesh isn’t heir to, including Ballistic Organ Disease, Delusions of Universal Grandeur, and Reverse Pinocchio Syndrome.Lavishly illustrated with cunning examples of everything that can’t go wrong with you, the Lambshead Guide provides a healthy dose of good humor and relief for hypochondriacs, pessimists, and lovers of imaginative fiction everywhere. Even if you don’t have Pentzler’s Lubriciousness or Tian Shan-Gobi Assimilation, the cure for whatever seriousness may ail you is in this remarkable collection.
language: English
title: The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases
titlecomplete: The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Medicine, Weird Fiction, Short Stories, Anthologies, Horror, Humor, Fantasy, New Weird
ratings_count: 770
series: Thackery T. Lambshead
awards: awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: World Fantasy Award
category: Best Anthology, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: British Fantasy Award
category: Best Anthology
publisher: Bantam