Bizarrism Vol 1.

Bizarrism is a collection of strange-but-true tales, featuring a grand parade of eccentrics, visionaries, crackpots, cult leaders, artists, theorists and outsiders of every stripe. First published in 1999, this new, fully revised and expanded edition revisits a host of unique individuals, including:

- William Chidley, who believed that, when it comes to sex, we've all been making a terrible mistake

- Arthur Cravan, who combined poetry with boxing

- Slim Gaillard, jazz singer and dispenser of 'vout'

- William Lindsay Gresham, author of the classic noir novel Nightmare Alley

- Rosaleen Norton, Australia's most notorious witch

- Harry Crosby, poet, sun worshipper and the best looking corpse of 1929

- Reginal Levgiac, author of the mysterious pamphlet Drugs Virus Germs.