Contents

INTRODUCTION: INTO THE THAI TWILIGHT ZONE

CRIME SCENES

Behind the Bars of the Bangkok Hiltons

Pattaya: The Vegas of Vice?

Museum of the Macabre:  See Uey the Chinese Cannibal

A Night in the Lives of  Corpse Collectors

MISADVENTURE TRAVELS

From Ayuthaya to Bangkok: A Bizarre Expat Odyssey

Weekend Warriors:  Military Tourism in Thailand

Double Lives:  Searching for the Siamese Twins

Country ‘n’ Eastern:  Home on the Dude Ranch

THE SEX FILES

The Black Sex Magician of the Body Politic

Empowering Sex Workers

A Cross-Section of the Third Gender

Erecting a Tribute to A Fertility Goddess

STRANGE CELEBRITIES

The Artist Of Bizarre Architecture

The Angel And She-Devil Of  Bang Kwang Central Prison

The Scorpion Queen and Centipede King

Thailand’s First Lady Of Forensics

CREATURE FEATURES

Going Ape in Simian City

In the Glass Ring with Siamese Fighting Fish

The Water Buffalo’s Tombstone

Reptilian Ménage à Trois:

THE SUPERNATURAL

Modern Primitives and Ancient Shamans

Oral Hexes and Shock Airwaves

Nang Nak:  The Ghost of Thailand’s Past

Funeral Rites:  The Thai Way of Death

Directory of the Bizarre

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