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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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Authors & Contributors edit
- Carl A. Posey (Author)
- Gahan Wilson (Author)
- Joe Staton (Author)
Other Contributors:
- Rod Ollerenshaw (Illustrator) - Letterer
- Randy DuBurke (Illustrator) - Elagabalus
- Richard Piers Rayner (Illustrator) - Gaius Caesar-Caligula
- Ed Hillyer (Illustrator) - Ivan The Terrible
- Simon Fraser (Illustrator) - King Ludwig II Of Bavaria
- James Romberger (Illustrator) - Adolf Hitler
- Mark Badger (Illustrator) - King Farouk
- Colin McNeil (Illustrator) - Lt. Hiroo Onoda
- Greg Ruth (Illustrator) - T. E. Lawrence (Of Arabia)
- Chris McLoughlin (Illustrator) - The Great Impostor
- Michael Zeck (Illustrator) - Idi Amin
- Tony Harris (Illustrator) - Rasputin
- Rick Geary (Illustrator) - Cyrus R. Ted
- Rebecca Guay (Illustrator) - Aimee Semple McPhearson
- Robin Smith (Illustrator) - Aleister Crowley; Lord Sutch
- Steve Leialoha (Illustrator) - Marcello Creti
- Graham Higgins (Illustrator) - Wilhelm Reich
- Roger Langridge (Illustrator) - Edgar Allan Poe
- Will Simpson (Illustrator) - Guy De Maupassant
- Donald David (Illustrator) - Franz Kafka
- Dave DeVries (Illustrator) - William S. Burroughs
- Leo Durañona (Illustrator) - Fyodor Mikhaylovich Dostoyevsky
- Al Davison (Illustrator) - Sarah Bernhardt
- Steven Leiber (Illustrator) - Edward Askew Sothern
- Gary Amaro (Illustrator) - Chung Ling Soo
- Jim Fern (Illustrator) - Harry Houdini
- Woodrow Phoenix (Illustrator) - Alfred Henri Jarry
- Craig Hamilton (Illustrator) - Isadora Duncan
- Ted Naifeh (Illustrator) - Vaslav Nijinsky
- Greg Theakston (Illustrator) - Shipwreck Kelly
- Robert McCallum (Illustrator) - Moondog
- Hunt Emerson (Illustrator) - Erich Von Stroheim
- Art Wetherell (Illustrator) - Clara Bow
- Mitch O'Connor (Illustrator) - Ed Wood Jr.
- Russell Braun (Illustrator) - Vincent Van Gogh
- Zina Saunders (Illustrator) - Andy Warhol
- Frank Quitely (Illustrator) - Salvador Dali
- Richard Case (Illustrator) - Thomas Edison
- Tayyar Ozkan (Illustrator) - Nikola Tesla
- Peter Gross (Illustrator) - Henry Ford
- Feliks Dobrin (Illustrator) - Edward Leedskalnin
- Rick Parker (Illustrator) - Walter Freeman
- Joe Philips (Illustrator) - Franz Anton Mesmer
- David G. Klein (Illustrator) - Lord Monboddo
- Michael Avon Oeming (Illustrator) - Grey Owl
- David Hine (Illustrator) - Mad Jack Mytton
- Nghia Lam (Illustrator) - Stephen Tennant
- Alec Stevens (Illustrator) - The Witch Of Wall Street
- D'Israeli D'Emon Draughtsman (Illustrator) - Bernarr MacFadden
- Batton Lash (Illustrator) - Sarah Winchester
- Jamie Tolagson (Illustrator) - William Randolph Hearst
- Graham Manley (Illustrator) - The Collyer Brothers
- Danny Hellman (Illustrator) - Howard Hughes
- Tom Sutton (Illustrator) - Marquis De Sade
- Mark Wheatley (Illustrator) - Dr. James Barry
- Linda Medley (Illustrator) - June And Jennifer Gibbons
- Teddy H. Kristiansen (Illustrator) - Stewart And Cyril Marcus
- Floyd Hughes (Illustrator) - William James Sidis
- Mitch Waxman (Illustrator) - Jeremy Bentham
- Kieron Dwyer (Illustrator) - Norton I, Emperor Of The United States
- Michael Jantze (Illustrator) - William Lyon MacKenzie King
- Peter Kuper (Illustrator) - J. Edgar Hoover
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 741.5973
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