Beyond Bizarre: Frightening Facts and Blood-Curdling True Tales

by Varla Ventura

The sequel to the best-selling "The Book of the Bizarre," "Beyond Bizarre" offers up scores of new freaky facts, terrifying trivia, and stranger-than-fiction stories. Arranged into 13 chilling chapters like "Haunted Hollywood, Blood Red Crosses and Gross Anatomy: Hospital Horrors, Bride of Bizarre," and "Tales from the Cryptids," "Beyond Bizarre" tackles everything from female pirates and creepy candy stripers to psychic predictions and virgin shark births--and much, much more.
A word of warning: this book is not for the faint of heart

Genres: Nonfiction, Trivia, Short Stories, Collections, History, Humor

308 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 1, 2010

About the author

Author of THE BOOK OF THE BIZARRE and BEYOND BIZARRE (Weiser Books). Curator of the MAGICAL CREATURES and PARANORMAL PARLOR e-book collections.

Reviews

[Zain · Rating 4 out of 5]

Stick To The Facts.

And the facts are mainly what is happening here.

There are a few what ifs, maybes, and rumors, but most of the trivia is factual-albeit fantastically interesting.

Worth a reading for trivia fans.

[Becca · Rating 1 out of 5]

I love facts. I love learning them, I love reading them to people, I love just having them available. But it's pretty crappy when the facts are totally overshadowed by poor grammar, nonsensical sentences and poor research.
This book needs an editor. And if it had an editor, it needs a better editor.

[Erica Ravenclaw · Rating 2 out of 5]

I love books like this, interesting little packets of odd knowledge and back stories that help you commit it to memory. Except this is not one of those books. There is a lot of "it's been said over the ages" or "theory suggests" and just a general lack of research. It's also not written well and I caught one too many mistakes to ignore.



Oh, and the author or whomever it was that was "speaking" to me, you are completely and utterly useless, GTFO of this book, I'm here to learn not listen to your fecking memories. I was either bored, skimming, disinterested, or reading something I knew already. There were two chapters I read carefully and liked a lot, out of the entire book.

**My husband seemed to like it more than I did, that or yesterday was just a really boring day in our house and he was desperate to block out the sounds of our rowdy toddlers. He read it cover to cover and told me I should read it when I asked him how it was. It's not the first thing we will disagree on, and it certainly won't be the last.

[Lana · Rating 2 out of 5]

There were a few interesting stories in here. However, the poor writing (or lack of proper editing) made it frustrating to read. Also, the author made many tasteless jokes about people's deaths and injuries, which felt icky.

Wouldn't recommend.

[Gayle · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wonderfully bizarre factoids! Love books like this!

[Sarah Bunfill · Rating 4 out of 5]

A lot of really cool and weird info in this book!

[Isabella · Rating 4 out of 5]

Not one to shy away from books about the macabre and weird, I grabbed this one with high hopes of adding to my mental library of strange and unusual. I got lucky.

Within the 13 chapters here, the covered items are ships & wrecks, creepy museums, people behaving badly, Hollywood stories, plants & insects and not to be left out, even ghost encounters.

This is a relatively small book that packs a huge punch of random facts and things that have creeped into our minds due to urban legends and even true stories.

I love this book, and though I haven't read the first, I will be looking for it and highly suggest this one to anyone's library of oddities.

[Mark J. · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fun read filled with bizarre facts and fun figures

Fun read, the book is filled with, as you would expect bizarreness or unexpected facts with an exhaustive list of sources for the materials cited in the book at the end of the last chapter, it got a little repetitive at some points but it was. A fun fast read

[Jo · Rating 3 out of 5]

A collection of facts on various subjects from true crime and killers to odd creatures. Some of the facts were more interesting than others and several of the pieces I already knew. Still, it made for a 'light' read at Christmas.

[Laura Cushing]

A fun collection of strange facts, superstitions, and odd occurrences. Divided up into related chapters, with an intro to each from the author talking about her own experiences.

[Nurshafiqa · Rating 3 out of 5]

entertaining and perfect for those times when i need a quick read.

PS: someone need to proof-read this book. seriously. malaysia is NOT spelled "mylasia".

[Book Shark · Rating 4 out of 5]

intriguing a lot of fun facts and some links to interesting websites.

[Allie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fun little book, wish there were actual pictures of the weird but real animals/bugs/things she describes so I don't have to google them my lazy self.

[Deb · Rating 4 out of 5]

A interesting quick read. Halloween is a good time to read this book

[James Cooper · Rating 4 out of 5]

A quarky (on purpose), cool, fun book!!

[Geri · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting and unusual information that you didn't know you needed or wanted to know about until now.

[Jennifer · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent

[JoAlice · Rating 4 out of 5]

I pretty good read

[Chris]

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