Bizarrism Vol. 2 collects further tales of high weirdness from around the world, including:
- The curious death of Sherlock Holmes scholar Richard Lancelyn Green;
- Baroness Eloise de Bosquet and the mystery of Floreana;
- The strange odyssey of William Seabrook — writer, adventurer, cannibal;
- JLB Smith’s obsessive search for the coelacanth;
- The cult that promised eternal life;
- The unexpectedly appalling story of Madalyn Murray O’Hair and the American Atheists;
- Leonard Lawson — comic book artist and killer;
- Padre Pio, Italy’s celebrity stigmatic;
- The strange fate of Napoleon’s penis and other illustrious male members;
- Ferdinand Sauerbruch — the senile surgeon;
- Murder and mayhem among the Hare Krishnas;
- The enduring enigma of ‘Somerton Man’;
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Bizarrism is a collection of strange-but-true tales, featuring a grand parade of eccentrics, visionaries, crackpots, cult leaders, artists, theorists and outsiders of every stripe. First published in 1999, and out of print for years, Headpress has now released a new, fully revised and expanded edition that revisits a host of unique individuals. Here Bizarrism and Eccentropedia author Chris Mikul shares five of his favourite eccentrics from his personal database of … singular personalities.