Download or read book The Book of Weird written by Barbara Ninde Byfield and published by Main Street Books. This book was released on 1973 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read "The Book of Weird and enter into the mysterious netherworld of the fantastical. Ever since its original publication over a quarter of a century ago, this book has delighted fans of arcana and the occult. Now, a new package will draw still another generation to its mysterious charms. With the help of this playful sourcebook, you can decide which sounds like the more attractive occupation--witch or sorceress (or warlock or wizard). Using the table of ancient remedies you can learn how to cure common afflictions--from epilepsy to warts--that have plagued human history from the dawn of time. And by reading this book, you will finally know the proper time for matins and vespers, and when to celebrate Candlemas, Beltane, and Michaelmas. "The Book of Weird will take you through each of the deadly sins, and for good measure, each of the splendid virtues. You will learn how to avoid werewolves and vampires, and what to do to get rid of ghosts. It will teach you how to distinguish an incubus from a succubus in order to determine which you'd rather be visited by in the dark of night. Whether you are faced with gnome or dwarf, troll or ogre, elf or fairy, you will know the difference after browsing through this fun-filled, informative treasure chest of hidden knowledge.
Download or read book The Book of Weird written by Rogue Planet Press and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-06-19 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Step into the world of the strange and the bizarre! Stories of a post-apocalypse world where a baby decides to trade his mother for a new one... A police officer makes a ghastly discovery inside and elderly woman's shed... A mentally challenged man has a monster in his closet... And a stranger enters a family's house, bringing a cicada dream... Short stories of the weird and bizarre by Mark Slade and illustrated by Ida Astero.
Download or read book The Book of Weird written by Barbara Ninde Byfield and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Book of Weird and Unusual Trivia written by Publications International Ltd and published by Publications International Limited. This book was released on 2014-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Book of Weird and Unusual Trivia is a 704-page, padded hardcover book that's crammed with stories that are eerie, unexpected, and just plain bizarre. Learn about strange scientific facts, discover the quirky truths behind historical events, and thrill yourself with stories of the supernatural. A wide range of articles, anecdotes, and lists, this book will provide hours of enthralling reading. You'll laugh at stories of outlandish lawsuits and fumbling felons, find out about sword swallowing, and learn about the world's most expensive foods. Topics include the natural world, history, business, popular culture, sports, the human body, law, and the supernatural.
Download or read book The Silly Book of Weird and Wacky Words written by Andy Seed and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-12-03 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you know what 'park your jam on the frog' means? Fancy some ognib? What rhymes with 'circus'? ...plus many more amazing things you never knew about words. Have hours of fun wixing up your murds with this hilarious book, packed full of rhymes, puns, games, jokes, gibberish and more.
Download or read book Weird o Pedia written by Alex Palmer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-09-19 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Check out the weird and wonderful facts in this massive encyclopedia of alphabetized oddities: HUMANS ARE THE ONLY ANIMALS THAT ENJOY SPICY FOOD (there’s a reason no one sells Tabasco-flavored cat food). NAPPING CAN SAVE YOU FROM A HEART ATTACK (assuming you are not operating heavy machinery at the time). PSYCHOLOGISTS CAN ASSESS YOUR PERSONALITY FROM HOW YOU DIP FRIES IN KETCHUP (nice fries, sociopath). SURFING THE INTERNET ACTUALLY MAKES YOU SMARTER (but not as smart as reading this book will). Now the next time someone tells you smugly that Pluto isn’t a planet, you can counter with any one of these hundreds of weird facts and remain king or queen of the cocktail (or kegger) chatter.
Download or read book The Weird written by Ann VanderMeer and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-05-08 with total page 1153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An oversized anthology of dark and bizarre tales written throughout the past century includes entries by international best-sellers and award-winners, including Neil Gaiman, Stephen King, and Franz Kafka.
Download or read book Weird Texas written by Wesley Treat and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2009-05 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "If your taste extends to the odd side of traveling, [this is your ticket]."--"Booklist."
Download or read book Wyllard s Weird A Novel written by Mary Elisabeth Braddon and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are some travellers who think when they cross the Tamar, over that fairy bridge of Brunel's, hung aloft between the blue of the river and the blue of the sky, that they have left England behind them on the eastern shore—that they have entered a new country, almost a new world. This land of quiet woods and lonely valleys, and bold brown hills, barren, solitary—these wild commons and large moorlands of Cornwall seem to stand apart, as they did in the days gone by, when this province was verily a kingdom, complete in itself, and owning no sovereignty but its own. It is a beautiful region which the traveller sees, perchance for the first time, as the train skims athwart the quaint little waterside village of Saltash, and pierces the rich depths of the woodland, various, enchanting. Now the line seems strung like a thread of iron in mid-air above a deep gorge, now winds sinuous as a snake through a labyrinth of hills. A picturesque bit of road, this between Plymouth and Bodmin Road, at all times; but, perhaps, loveliest in the still evening hour, when the summer sunset steeps the land in golden light, while the summer wind scarcely stirs the woods. In the mellow light of a July eventide the express from Paddington swept with slackened speed round the curve which marked the approach to a viaduct between Saltash and Bodmin Road—a heavy wooden structure, spanning a vale of Alpine beauty. An exquisite little bit of scenery, upon which the stranger is apt to look with some touch of fear mingled in the cup of his delight: but to the dweller in the district, familiar with every yard of the journey, the transit is as nothing. He is carried through the air serenely, as he smokes his cigar and reads his paper, and the notion of peril never occurs to him. One man, sitting by the window of a third-class carriage near the end of the train, looked out at the familiar scene dreamily to-night. He was an elderly, gray-headed man, a parish doctor, hard-worked and poorly paid; but he had a keen eye for the beautiful in Nature, dead or living, and familiar as this spot was to his eye, it always impressed him. He sat with his face to the engine, puffing lazily at his black briarwood, and gazing at the landscape, in that not unpleasant condition of bodily and mental fatigue, when the mind seems half asleep, and the external world is little more than a dream-picture. The train was not a long one, a good many of the London coaches having been left behind at Plymouth. Dr. Menheniot put out his head, and surveyed the line of carriages as they rounded the curve. There was a figure here and there by a window; but the train seemed sparsely occupied. They were nearing the viaduct. That narrow thread of water trickling over its rocky bed in the depth of the gorge was in winter a rushing torrent. The line at this point was under repair, and the wooden palisade had been removed in the progress of the work. The actual danger was in nowise increased by the absence of this barrier, which would have crumbled like matchwood before the weight of the train, had the engine run off the rails—but there was a seeming insecurity to the eye of the traveller as he looked into the gulf below; and Dr. Menheniot gave an involuntary shudder.
Download or read book The Weird The Whacky and The Wonderful written by Michael Siddall and published by Michael Siddall. This book was released on with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Weird, Whacky and the Wonderful. Mind-bending short stories, poems and teasing thoughts. Funny, scary and strange. But each one pushes the boundaries of storytelling to the Outer Limits.
Download or read book Weird Kentucky written by Jeffrey Scott Holland and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to the odd and interesting history, places, and people in Kentucky.
Download or read book Weird Confucius written by Zhao Lu and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-03-21 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning antiquity until the present, Zhao Lu analyses the eclectic and fictitious representations of Confucius that have been widely celebrated by communities of people throughout history. While mainstream scholarship mostly considers Confucius in terms of his role as a celebrated man of wisdom and as a teacher with a humanistic worldview, Zhao addresses the weirder representations. He considers depictions of Confucius as a prophet, a fortune-teller, a powerful demon hunter, a shrewd villain of 19th century American newspapers, an embodiment of feudal evils in the Cultural Revolution, and as a cute friend. Zhao asks why some groups would risk contradicting the well-accepted image of Confucius with such representations and shows how these illustrations reflect the specific anxieties of these communities. He reveals not only how people across history perceived Confucius in diverse ways, but more importantly how they used Confucius in daily life, ranging from calming their anxiety about the future, to legitimizing a dynasty, stereotyping Chinese people, and even to forging a new sense of history.
Download or read book Weird U S written by Mark Sceurman and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores ghosts and haunted places, local legends, cursed roads, crazy characters, and unusual roadside attractions found in the United States.
Download or read book Wonderfully Weird written by Drake Hunter and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2019-10-02 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like your thumbprint, all people are unique and wonderfully made. Every person has a great deal to offer in this Wonderfully Weird life. But little will happen the way it should unless we embark on a weird adventure that will lead us to our very best uniqueness. As a Christian this should involve, first, a strange inner investigation of how we have been made on the inside, the Wonderfully Weird Image of God within, and then develop a unique life plan centered on the certainties uncovered in that investigation. One of the strongest temptations in life, as we look around us, is to become so busy and absorbed by possessions we forget to develop our Wonderfully Weird self and life we have been created to live. Our journey must start from within. and our life road map must be suitable for us, targets that resonate within our hearts, guiding us to our deepest needs. And as we shoot for these goals, we should always use our unique gifts for the good of others as well as ourselves. For only in this way will we reach our Wonderfully Weird potential for which we were created.
Download or read book City of Weird written by Gigi Little and published by Forest Avenue Press. This book was released on 2016-10-11 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: City of Weird conjures what we fear: death, darkness, ghosts. Hungry sea monsters and alien slime molds. Blood drinkers and game show hosts. Set in Portland, Oregon, these thirty stories blend imagination, literary writing, and pop culture into a cohesive weirdness that honors the city’s personality, its bookstores and bridges and solo volcano, as well as the tradition of sci-fi pulp magazines. Including such authors as Rene Denfeld, Justin Hocking, Leni Zumas, and Kevin Sampsell, editor Gigi Little has curated a collection that is quirky, chilling, often profound—and always perfectly weird.
Download or read book The Book Buyer written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A review and record of current literature.
Download or read book Weird Science written by Jim Wiese and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2004-04-19 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the weird science behind the ickiest, wackiest, mostunusual things ever to exist! Would you like to make your own slime, discover how lava lampswork, or learn how materials decompose? Have you ever heard about ball lightning or the Aurora Borealis onthe news and wondered what the reporter was talking about? Are you looking for great ideas for your next science fairproject? If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, then Weird Scienceis for you! From banana slugs and dry ice to optical illusions andtime travel, you'll investigate some of the most bizarre scientificoddities on Earth. Dozens of fun-packed activities help you see foryourself how quicksand really works, why our feet sometimes getsmelly, how worm holes and black holes are formed, why insects canwalk on water, and much more. You'll even see how you can turnthese amazing activities into science projects! Each experiment issafe and easy to do, and all you need is everyday stuff from aroundthe house. So get ready to take a strange, creepy, and sometimeseven gross journey through Weird Science!
