Weird Societies

For centuries, secret societies have operated in the shadows of public life. Some were born from the pursuit of knowledge. Others from the desire for power, protection, or change. From hidden intellectual circles to revolutionary networks, from elite institutions to underground resistance movements, these organisations have shaped history in ways that are often misunderstood, exaggerated, or deliberately concealed.

History tends to present the time around the birth of Jesus as quiet, sacred, and solemn. Reality was… considerably messier. The world between 10 BC and AD 50 was loud, crowded, political, dangerous, inventive, deeply religious, and sometimes unbelievably strange. Roman emperors ruled with theatrical ego. Street vendors sold questionable food. Doctors prescribed treatments that would horrify modern medicine. Religious movements collided, clashed, and spread through dusty roads and bustling ports. Meanwhile, ordinary people were navigating life in cities filled with sewage systems, ...

Read by the author, this is Louis Theroux's hilarious and thought-provoking journey through weird America. For 10 years, Louis Theroux has been making programmes about off-beat characters on the fringes of US society. Now he revisits America and the people who have most fascinated him to try to...

Museum Nocturnus not only deals in high strangeness but puts it on full display for the world to see and admire. Exhibits have been carefully curated to tell the stories of serial killers, witches, madmen, cult members, and those who thrive in the darkness. It is a display dedicated to the weird, and the spotlights are all firmly pointed at the darkness. Accompany master thief, Max Garfield, on a job to steal an item of great importance from the Museum's newly-opened Hall of Monsters and learn the stories behind some of the gruesome artifacts displayed there. But, beware, the Museum has its...

Read by the author, this is Louis Theroux's hilarious and thought-provoking journey through weird America. For 10 years, Louis Theroux has been making programmes about off-beat characters on the fringes of US society. Now he revisits America and the people who have most fascinated him to try to...

The sheriff of Jericho offered Flint the bounty, but the contract originated from a murkier source—the Duskfinders, a secret society with ties to the Occult. Still, Flint accepted. Hunting bounties defined him.

"Living with Our AI Friends: A Regular Person's Guide to the Weird and Wonderful Future" isn't just another tech book – it's your survival guide to the AI revolution, written for humans by a human. With humor, heart, and zero technobabble, this book takes you on a journey through your own future, showing you how AI will transform everything from your morning coffee to your career prospects. Unlike other AI books that get lost in technical details or sci-fi speculation, this guide focuses on AI's practical, personal impact on your daily life. Through relatable stories, clever illustrations...

Swallow. Download. Plug in. Become whomever or whatever you desire. This is the seductive promise of eN, a small electronic chip offering freedom from the misery and misfortune that a common mind endows, granting anyone the life they feel they truly deserve. But, like all promises, reality is often upsetting. eN follows the downward spiral of an eighty-something-year-old artist, one cradling a severed leg and a terrible secret, as he is thrown headfirst into a technology that promises the liberation of the mind, yet merely plagues it with incessant advertising and a debilitating, visceral ...

From Bram Stoker Award–winning author Hank Schwaeble, Normal for the Spider is a spine-tingling thriller that will keep readers hooked to the very last page. Sienna Shaw is an apex predator. She kills without remorse when it suits her purposes, steals from those she judges undeserving of what...

From the Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller Olivie Blake, this is a powerful and darkly fun novel about ambition, lust and eating your fill – as wealthy moms and sorority girls practice a sinister new wellness trend . . . Good girls deserve a treat. The House is the most exclusive...