description: â€œImagine if Monty Python wrote the Mayo Clinic Family Health Book, and you sort of get the idea. Afraid youâ€re afflicted with an unknown malady? Finally you have a place to turn!â€ â€”Book SenseYou hold in your hands the most complete and official guide to imaginary ailments ever assembledâ€”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 isnâ€t heir to, including Ballistic Organ Disease, Delusions of Universal Grandeur, and Reverse Pinocchio Syndrome.Lavishly illustrated with cunning examples of everything that canâ€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 donâ€t have Pentzlerâ€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: Medicine, Science Fiction, Weird Fiction, Short Stories, Fiction, Anthologies, Humor, Fantasy, New Weird, Horror
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: Nightshade Book