Beyond Bizarre: Frightening Facts and Blood-Curdling True Tales

by Varla Ventura

Overview

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!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781609252731
Publisher:	Red Wheel/Weiser
Publication date:	04/17/2020
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	308
File size:	6 MB

About the Author

Varla Ventura is the author of Varla Ventura’s Paranormal Parlor: Ghosts, Seances and Tales of True Hauntings, as well as Fairies, Pookas, and Changelings: A Complete Guide to the Wild & Wicked Enchanted Realm, along with several other books on spooky ooky stuff.  She can often be found lurking about the deep dark woods, lakes, streams and parlors on the hunt for beastly things and hidden history. Visit her online at www.varlaventura.net

Read an Excerpt

Six Feet Lower Than Most: Louis and Gerald Garzone, two brothers who owned and operated a Philadelphia funeral home, were found guilty of selling corpses to a black market trafficker of body parts. The gruesome duo admitted to carving up nearly 250 bodies without family permission and selling them across the country for various purposes: dental implants, hip and knee replacements, and other medical procedures.