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BOOKS BY MICHAEL LARGO

“Meticulous, fascinating, and often intriguingly bizarre.”

—Simon Winchester, author of The Professor and the Madman

THE BIG, BAD BOOK OF BEASTS

The World’s Most Curious Creatures

ISBN 978-0-06-208745-4 (paperback)

David Attenborough meets Lemony Snicket in this one-of-a-kind treasury of the most strange and fascinating knowledge and lore about animals.

GOD’S LUNATICS

Lost Souls, False Prophets, Martyred Saints, Murderous Cults, Demonic Nuns, and Other Victims of Man’s Eternal Search for the Divine

ISBN 978-0-06-173284-3 (paperback)

An eyebrow-raising exposé of the strange and shocking side of history’s religions, cults, and spiritual movements.

GENIUS AND HEROIN

The Illustrated Catalogue of Creativity, Obsession, and Reckless Abandon Through the Ages

ISBN 978-0-06-146641-0 (paperback)

Why are so many creative geniuses also ruinously self-destructive? From Caravaggio to Jackson Pollock, from Arthur Rimbaud to Jack Kerouac, from Charlie Parker to Janis Joplin, to Kurt Cobain, and on and on, authors and artists throughout history have binged, pill-popped, injected, or poisoned themselves for their art.

THE PORTABLE OBITUARY

How the Famous, Rich, and Powerful Really Died

ISBN 978-0-06-123166-7 (paperback)

No matter what your station in society, everybody has to go sometime. Even the wealthy, powerful, and world-renowned must ultimately meet their Maker—though some have departed this life more ignobly than others.

FINAL EXITS

The Illustrated Encyclopedia of How We Die

ISBN 978-0-06-081741-1 (paperback)

An eye-opening and entertaining look at the truth behind kicking the bucket, Final Exits is the definitive A to Z illustrated sourcebook on the way we die.

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