From Lovecraft to Borges to Gaiman a century of intrepid literary experimentation has created a corpus of dark & strange stories that transcend all known genre boundaries. Together these stories form The Weird & amongst its practitioners number some of the greatest names in twentieth & twenty-first century literature. Exotic & esoteric The Weird plunges you into dark domains & brings you face to face with surreal monstrosities; you wont find any elves or wizards here...but you will find the boldest & downright most peculiar stories from the last hundred years bound together in the biggest Weird collection ever assembled. The Weird features an all star cast of authors from classics to international bestsellers to Booker prize winners. Here are Ben Okri & George R.R. Martin Angela Carter & Kelly Link Franz Kafka & China Mieville Clive Barker & Haruki Murakami M.R. James & Neil Gaiman Mervyn Peake & Michael Chabon Stephen King & Daphne Du Maurier. ...

Weird Al" Yankovic is the singer songwriter/comedian/satirist known for his parodies of popular pop songs & for their accompanying music videos. (Michael Jacksons " Beat It" was reborn as " Eat It;" Coolios " Gangstars Paradise" became " Amish Paradise;" etc.) Hes sold more than twelve million albums more than any other comedy act in history & won three Grammy Awards out of fourteen nominations. His last album 2011s " Alpocalypse" is his highest charting album ever & scored two Grammy nominations. He tours & records regularly & he definitely is an act that garners new generations. Weird Al is the big fun full color career retrospective that tells Weird Als story in 20 000 words & 200 pictures. Its all here from his early association with Dr. Demento & his first parody hit (" My Bologna") to his sanctioned pirating of the MTV airwaves for hours in its early days & the story behind his ill fated cult favourite movie UHF. The book also reveals all the details behind his hit songs & the artists reactions good & bad. Filled with anecdotes album art behind the scenes pix music video screen shots lyrics fan submitted imagery discography/videography captions by Al & more its the ultimate fun & funny volume his fanatical fans crave." ...

Kids will go crazy over this br&-new Little Giant compilation. The topics range from food to customs animals to history nature to sports. For example in Marostica Italy an immense chess board is built into the public square: the pawns & all the pieces are human beings & the knights sit on real horses. This book shows weird worms that stop island natives in their tracks as well as 4000 year old bathrooms with modern drainage systems! ...

As readers flip through the vibrant pages of this new easy-to-browse casual reference book they'll find it's chock-full of wacky facts & bold illustrations
- a formula that will keep kids coming back for more. This book features bold colourful & kid-friendly design. Small size makes this book easy to handle & fun to browse. Eye-popping facts are so entertaining that kids will love learning about animals science space & much more.
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Did you know that a lions roar can be heard up to five miles away? That an astronauts heartbeat slows down in space? That about GBP35 billion of Monopoly money is printed each year? Three hundred wacky facts pop from the colourful compact pages of Weird but True! 3" an irresistible trove of facts & fun based on the top-scoring feature in the premier childrens magazine
- National Geographic Kids. Brain-bending information entertains as it educates covering topics such as science animals food pop culture weather geography & everything else under the sun. Plus for the first time this edition contains fun facts generated by readers!"
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Did you know that a great white shark can weigh as much as 15 gorillas or that meteorites the size of basketballs land on Earth about once a month? You'll find 301 more wacky facts like these in National Geographic Kids' latest brand extension More Weird But True". This second installment in the successful " Weird But True Series" has all-new illustrations creative type treatments & even more photos. Brain-bending facts cover a broad range of topics including science animals food weather pop culture outer space geography & just about everything else under the sun." ...

This marvellous book now updated as a second edition in a new paperback format is a celebration of eccentric cars in all shapes & sizes
- some of the most ugly crazily designed & downright awkward vehicles of all time. Where else would you find in one book descriptions & photographs of automotive oddities as diverse as the Gaylord Gentleman Suminoe Flying Feather or Zil?
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Based on the authors popular Times Online" column " Weird Cases" this book draws on extraordinary cases from many countries including the UK USA Canada Brazil Australia New Zealand Germany Italy Romania & China. The result is a highly entertaining read for anyone who enjoys reading about the more bizarre aspects of human life that fetch up in the law courts at the beginning of the 21st century. Courts have seen judges do things like try to turn off a musical tie playing We wish you a merry Christmas while sentencing a defendant to prison fall fast asleep in the middle of trials flip a coin to decide a case demand a foot massage from a clerk & get sentenced for judicial racketeering. Courts have listened to the defences like that of a bogus dentist caught using DIY tools on his patients a man who based his defence on being as hapless as Homer Simpson & a woman who was running a brothel from an office in the criminal courts. Courts have seen a litigant sue for becoming pregnant by a stray sperm in a swimming pool & a litigant suddenly strip naked before the judges. The cases featured in " Weird Cases" are those that truly stand out as odd even among all the unusual dramas that challenge the courts. The chapters are: Compensation & Punishment Love & Sex Food Drink & Drugs Judges Death & Violence Pets & Animals On the Road Lawyers & Jurors Friends & Neighbours." ...

Pinchton is left home alone & decides to invite the Weird family around
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Recently scientists at the frontiers of biology have hypothesised the existence of life-forms that can only be called weird": organisms that live off acid rather than water microbes that thrive at temperatures & pressure levels so extreme that their cellular structures should break down even organisms that reproduce without DNA. The search for these strange life-forms spans the universe from the Martian permafrost the ammonia oceans of Jupiter's moons the hydrogen-rich atmospheres of giant planets the exotic ices on comets & the crusts of neutron stars. David Toomey brings us into the world of the researchers who have devoted their careers to "weird life". As they envision & discover ever stranger organisms here on earth they open up fascinating possibilities for the discovery of life in the rest of the universe." ...