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Beyond Bizarre - Frightening Facts and Blood-Curdling True Tales - cover

Beyond Bizarre - Frightening Facts and Blood-Curdling True Tales

Varla Ventura

Publisher: Weiser Books

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Summary

The author of The Book of the Bizarre returns with a new compendium of freaky facts, terrifying trivia, and true stories that are stranger than fiction.   In Beyond Bizarre, Varla Ventura presents an all-new batch of nightmarish tales that teem queasy diseases and paranormal encounters—not to mention the outrageous, outlandish, and the simply strange.  Arranged into thirteen chilling chapters like Haunted Hollywood, Tales from the Cryptids, Bride of the Bizarre, and It’s Enough to Make You Hurl, Beyond Bizarre tackles everything from female pirates and creepy candy stripers to psychic predictions, virgin shark births and much, much more.   A word of warning: this book is not for the faint of heart!
Available since: 09/01/2010.

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