Out Of This World: The Illustrated Library Of The Bizarre And Extraordinary (24 Volume Set - Complete). This item is unavailable.Out Of This World: The Illustrated Library Of The Bizarre And Extraordinary (24 Volume Set - Complete)

Family-owned bookshop in Steubenville, Ohio. Books shipped within 24 hours. Good+ 24 Volume Set. All are clean and bidngs are solid. Fair wear and some light foxing with age toned pages. Some have wear on covers. Overall a wonderufl set with hundereds of interesting and unsual chapters. . . . . . . . This is a potpourri of strange, unaccountable events events. Some are standard mysteries: The Mary Celeste, UFOs, the Bermuda Triangle, Nostradamus, Aleister Crowley, the Abominable Snowman, etc. It deals with notable persons like Errol Flynn, Rasputin, Onassis, Jean Harlow and Mata Hari. The latter article was especially well illustrated. She was possibly the world's most exotic spy, somewhat like a character out of a James Bond novel. I found the most worthwhile article the one dealing with vampirism. Contrary to what most people think, and contrary to tons of popular fiction, real vampires have existed. A notable example was Countess Bathori who kept peasant girls penned up in her castle in the Carpathian mountains. Altogether, she murdered over 600 so she could drink their blood and bathe in it. when she was finally caught and convicted, because she was of the nobility, she could only be executed by being walled up alive in her castle. The truth here is perhaps more grotesque than the fiction. -- Robert O. Adair.…