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From Dostoyevsky to Dali, if the history of humankind teaches us anything, it's that the most brilliant individuals of any era were often the most peculiar as well. In fact, they were positively weird . Presented in a uniquely engaging illustrated format, the "alternative lifestyles" of... read more

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  1. Carl A. Posey (Author)
  2. Gahan Wilson (Author)
  3. Joe Staton (Author)

Other Contributors:

  1. Rod Ollerenshaw (Illustrator) - Letterer
  2. Randy DuBurke (Illustrator) - Elagabalus
  3. Richard Piers Rayner (Illustrator) - Gaius Caesar-Caligula
  4. Ed Hillyer (Illustrator) - Ivan The Terrible
  5. Simon Fraser (Illustrator) - King Ludwig II Of Bavaria
  6. James Romberger (Illustrator) - Adolf Hitler
  7. Mark Badger (Illustrator) - King Farouk
  8. Colin McNeil (Illustrator) - Lt. Hiroo Onoda
  9. Greg Ruth (Illustrator) - T. E. Lawrence (Of Arabia)
  10. Chris McLoughlin (Illustrator) - The Great Impostor
  11. Michael Zeck (Illustrator) - Idi Amin
  12. Tony Harris (Illustrator) - Rasputin
  13. Rick Geary (Illustrator) - Cyrus R. Ted
  14. Rebecca Guay (Illustrator) - Aimee Semple McPhearson
  15. Robin Smith (Illustrator) - Aleister Crowley; Lord Sutch
  16. Steve Leialoha (Illustrator) - Marcello Creti
  17. Graham Higgins (Illustrator) - Wilhelm Reich
  18. Roger Langridge (Illustrator) - Edgar Allan Poe
  19. Will Simpson (Illustrator) - Guy De Maupassant
  20. Donald David (Illustrator) - Franz Kafka
  21. Dave DeVries (Illustrator) - William S. Burroughs
  22. Leo DuraƱona (Illustrator) - Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevsky
  23. Al Davison (Illustrator) - Sarah Bernhardt
  24. Steven Leiber (Illustrator) - Edward Askew Sothern
  25. Gary Amaro (Illustrator) - Chung Ling Soo
  26. Jim Fern (Illustrator) - Harry Houdini
  27. Woodrow Phoenix (Illustrator) - Alfred Henri Jarry
  28. Craig Hamilton (Illustrator) - Isadora Duncan
  29. Ted Naifeh (Illustrator) - Vaslav Nijinsky
  30. Greg Theakston (Illustrator) - Shipwreck Kelly
  31. Robert McCallum (Illustrator) - Moondog
  32. Hunt Emerson (Illustrator) - Erich Von Stroheim
  33. Art Wetherell (Illustrator) - Clara Bow
  34. Mitch O'Connor (Illustrator) - Ed Wood Jr.
  35. Russell Braun (Illustrator) - Vincent Van Gogh
  36. Zina Saunders (Illustrator) - Andy Warhol
  37. Frank Quitely (Illustrator) - Salvador Dali
  38. Richard Case (Illustrator) - Thomas Edison
  39. Tayyar Ozkan (Illustrator) - Nikola Tesla
  40. Peter Gross (Illustrator) - Henry Ford
  41. Feliks Dobrin (Illustrator) - Edward Leedskalnin
  42. Rick Parker (Illustrator) - Walter Freeman
  43. Joe Philips (Illustrator) - Franz Anton Mesmer
  44. David G. Klein (Illustrator) - Lord Monboddo
  45. Michael Avon Oeming (Illustrator) - Grey Owl
  46. David Hine (Illustrator) - Mad Jack Mytton
  47. Nghia Lam (Illustrator) - Stephen Tennant
  48. Alec Stevens (Illustrator) - The Witch Of Wall Street
  49. D'Israeli D'Emon Draughtsman (Illustrator) - Bernarr MacFadden
  50. Batton Lash (Illustrator) - Sarah Winchester
  51. Jamie Tolagson (Illustrator) - William Randolph Hearst
  52. Graham Manley (Illustrator) - The Collyer Brothers
  53. Danny Hellman (Illustrator) - Howard Hughes
  54. Tom Sutton (Illustrator) - Marquis De Sade
  55. Mark Wheatley (Illustrator) - Dr. James Barry
  56. Linda Medley (Illustrator) - June And Jennifer Gibbons
  57. Teddy H. Kristiansen (Illustrator) - Stewart And Cyril Marcus
  58. Floyd Hughes (Illustrator) - William James Sidis
  59. Mitch Waxman (Illustrator) - Jeremy Bentham
  60. Kieron Dwyer (Illustrator) - Norton I, Emperor Of The United States
  61. Michael Jantze (Illustrator) - William Lyon MacKenzie King
  62. Peter Kuper (Illustrator) - J. Edgar Hoover

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