The book of the bizarre
Subtitle: freaky facts & strange stories
By: Varla Ventura
Publisher: Metro Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9781435124035
Subjects: Curiosities and wonders
Description: A book of information that you didn't even know that you wanted to know.
Notes: An imprint of Sterling Publishing.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 302-303).
Table of contents: title: Something wicked: mysterious objects and haunted homes; title: The annual chicken show: enchanted animals, psychic pets, botanical oddities, and other strange truths about mother nature; title: History's mysteries: bizarre but true facts about historical figures, and oddities from today and yesterday; title: Tender murderers and malevolent males: killingly good tales of terror; title: Coincidence or synchronicity?: odd things happening to ordinary folks; title: Morbid writers and tortured artists: from Edgar Allan Poe to Vincent Van Gogh; title: Dia de los Muertos: corpses on campus, voices from beyond the grave, strange cemetery facts, spooky specters, and other ghostly, ghastly, and gothic goings on; title: Sympathy for the devil: strange rock-and-roll stories; title: Still on the books (and in the ether): weirdest laws in the world, hoaxes, and conspiracy theories; title: Passing strange: aberrations, fascinating phobias, and odd ancient beliefs; title: The vapors: medical maladies and curious cures; title: Superstitions and curses: to hex, lambast, and bewitch; title: The dark side of the moon: UFO stories and bizarre and true lunar facts.