Evelyn Ch'ien argues that weird English constitutes the new language of literature, implicitly launching a new literary theory. She looks at how the collision of other languages with English invigorated and propelled the evolution of language in the 20th Century and beyond.[...]

From European favourites such as Mastichato Chios, which saved 2,000 Greeks from a bloody massacre at the hands of vengeful Turks, to legendary drinks such as Amarula, invented by African elephants; from classic cocktail ingredients like Midori, the bright green Japanese melon drink launched at the [...]

The Internet isn't all cat videos. There's also Felicia Day - violinist, filmmaker, Internet entrepreneur, compulsive gamer and former lonely homeschooled girl who overcame her isolated childhood to become the ruler of a new world ...or at least semi-influential in the world of Internet geeks and Go[...]

When you were a kid, did you long to put on your cowboy boots, belt on your guns, saddle up, and ride off to find adventures?
Did you sit glued to the TV watching "The Lone Ranger," "Maverick," "Bonanza," "The Wild Wild West," "The Adventures of Brsico County Jr.," and "Firefly"? And were you c[...]

You may know Bill Campbell's name, but chances are, you know his handiwork better, especially the Weird-Ohs models that burst on the pop culture scene in the 1960s. Enjoy looking back over the career of this colorful artist in over 700 brilliant photos and witty prose. From his early days painting m[...]

Trucker Ghost Stories: a uniquely entertaining book by rising star Anne Wilder, about uncanny true tales of haunted highways, weird encounters, and legends of the road.It may have happened to you; it's happened to almost everyone who's ever driven down a highway at night, or in the fog, or snow. Som[...]

The august art of horror fiction, with its oral roots going back to prehistory, remains a very popular genre. Its most prolific modern writers are examined in this work, which begins with an introduction to horror fiction and a discussion about how it has been dealt with by the critics. The author p[...]

A debut collection of interconnected stories explores the bizarre microcosm of the business of rock music, capturing a world of worshipful fans, egotistical and unbalanced stars, and crude A&R executives, in works about a rock goddess named Pussy who experiences a nervous breakdown, cults devoted to[...]

In Why People Believe Weird Things, science historian Michael Shermer explores the very human reasons we find otherworldly phenomena, conspiracy theories, and cults so appealing. The editor of Skeptic magazine and the director of the Skeptics Society, Shermer shows how the eternal search for meaning[...]

The leading critic of supernatural literature here examines the roots of the "weird tale" (as Lovecraft called it) through detailed examinations of five "founding fathers" of the genre: Arthur Machen, Lord Dunsany, Algernon Blackwood, M.R. James, and H.P. Lovecraft. The result is a thorough study of[...]