Weird Societies

Learn why the concept of "weird" is being reclaimed and turned into a badge of honor, used to show how being different—culturally, socially, physically, or mentally—can be a person's greatest strength. Most of us have at some point in our lives felt like an outsider, sometimes considering...

It comes as no surprise that, as a kid, Jeopardy! legend Ken Jennings slept with a bulky Hammond world atlas by his pillow every night. Maphead recounts his lifelong love affair with geography and explores why maps have always been so fascinating to him and to fellow enthusiasts everywhere.

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 ...

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...