Tales of the Weirrd

Genuine weirdness is a rare quality To be truly weird demands character and wanton disregard for the social mores of the day Unleashed in Tales of the Weirrd is Ralph Steadman's fantastic interpretations and biographies of nineteenth century grotesques, oddities, imposters and eccentrics The book is a hilarious catalog of nature's freakish humor and, in the best Victorian tradition, it instructs as well as entertains This crazy collection of dwarfs, and gluttons, wits and water-spouters