Books Archive
Cults, Cryptids, and Cursed Objects: One Quirk Author Interviews Another
An Interview with a Horror Historian: Jeremy Dauber, Author of “American Scary”
“Atlas of Paranormal Places” Enlightens Dark Tourists
The Case For Spirit Photography is Back From the Dead
Warnings from Jupiter, and Other Extraterrestrial Experiences from Contactees of the 1950s
Just One of Hereward Carrington’s Many Adventures in Spiritualism
We Are Not Alone: The Extraordinary History of UFOs and Aliens Invading Our Hopes, Fears, and Fantasies
Werewolf Stories to Tell Under a Full Moon (or Any Moon)
A Few Cases of Killer Pigs Facing Capital Punishment
Selections from The Book of Wonderful Characters
Thirteen Favors Given by a Hangman
A Conversation with the Dead About Levitation
Remembering the Forgotten Georgia Wonder: Mattie Lee Price
Peek Inside the Life of a 1930s Sideshow Star: The Rubber Skin Lady’s Scrapbook is Now For Sale
The Ghosts of Dickens’s Past
Houdini’s Tales of Sword Swallowers, Fire Eaters, Poison Defiers, Human Ostriches, and Other Miracle Mongers
Haunted Sites, Miraculous Mediums, and Spirits Through the Centuries in Your Weird Historian’s New Book, “Chasing Ghosts”
For Those Who Like Reading about the Writing of the Insane
Jack the Ripper, Hypnotism, and Murderous What-Ifs
Roadside Attractions and Other Curiosities with Ambassador of Odd, Tim O’Brien
Reminiscences of the Elephant Man, Now Available
Just a Little Vampire Miscellanea
Cheers! From Mars! A Conversation About Alcohol in Space with Explore Mars CEO, Chris Carberry.
The Art of the Art of Magic: An Interview with Philip David Treece
“We Don’t Have Meat Here” and Other News from the Afterlife
Excerpt from The Talking Dead: An Interview with Abe Lincoln
The Sight of Hell is Now On Sale—For Under Ten Bucks
Everything You Need to Know About Spirit Slate Writing and, of course, Kindred Phenomena
Launching Everywhere on Earth: The Big Book of Mars
How to See Ghosts in the Comfort of Your Own Home
Satan, the Rumplestiltskin of the Devil’s Bible
Fun and Horror with Ventriloquism Through History
A Fiery Tour of Hell for Children and other Youngsters
Four Crappy Ailments Once Believed to Have Been Cured by Reptile Poop
Blood Rushed to Their Heads, And Sometimes Beyond: Meet the Victorian Ceiling Walkers
True Ghost Stories, According to Psychic Investigator Hereward Carrington
Murder, Accidental Deaths and Other Misfortunes When Hypnosis Goes Wrong
A Peek into The Haunted Houses of Camille Flammarion
The 360th Anniversary of Oliver Cromwell’s Afterlife
Benjamin Franklin Outwits Death and Keeps Writing Clever Aphorisms
Just a Simple Case of Poltergeist from 1925
Edgar Allan Poe’s Poem from the Spirit World
The Twisted and Beautifully Bizarre Creatures from The Drolatic Dreams of Pantagruel
God Told This Man to Fast for 52 Days, Then Let Him Drink Squirrel Soup
How many beings lived on Jupiter in 1830?
A Rather Brief Visit to the Panotti on “All Ears Islands”
The Myth and Mayhem of the Man-Eating Tree of Madagascar
An Extraordinary Feat of Penmanship, or a Beautiful Example of Evil Spirit Writing
Excerpts from a Phrenological Review of Oliver Cromwell’s Embalmed Head
![Artificial nose, 17th-18th century, made of plated metal. Such noses would have been made to replace an original, which may have been congenitally absent or deformed, lost through accident or during combat or due to a degenerative disease, such as syphilis. By Science Museum London / Science and Society Picture Library [CC BY-SA 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons](https://www.weirdhistorian.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Artificial_nose_17th-18th_century_By-Science-Museum-London-Science-and-Society-Picture-Library-CC-BY-SA-2.0-via-Wikimedia-Commons-370x297.jpg)
Things to Know About the No Noses Club
![Premature Burial [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons-Illustration for Edgar Allan Poe's story The Premature Burial by Harry Clarke (1889-1931), published in 1919.](https://www.weirdhistorian.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/premature-burial-crop-370x297.jpg)
Proper Care for the Not-Quite-Dead-Yet: The London Association for the Prevention of Premature Burial
Body Snatching and a Singular Case of a Corpse’s Revenge
Post-Mortem Telepathic Hypnotism: A Theory on Haunted Houses
