Tales of the Weirrd Book

Introduction

Francis Battalia, the Stone-Eater

De Hightrehight, John Cummings and Cliquot

John Broughton, a Notorious Pugilist

Bertholde, Prime Minister to Alboinus

Matthew Buchinger, the Little Man of Nuremberg

Miss Whitehead, the Bank Nun

Joseph Clark, the Posture Master

Nathaniel Bentley, the Well-Known 'Dirty Dick'

Lord Rokeby, of Singular Eccentricity

Toby, a Begging Impostor

Foster Powell, the Astonishing Pedestrian

Peter the Wild Boy, of the Woods of Hamelin

Ann Moore, the Fasting Woman

Old Boots, of Ripon in Yorkshire

Floram Marchand, the Great Water-Spouter

Matthew Lovat, Who Crucified Himself

Jane Lewson, an Eccentric Old Lady

Henry Lemoine, an Eccentric Bookseller

Henry Jenkins, the Modern Methuselah

Jacob Hall, the Famous Rope-Dancer

Charles Domery, the Remarkable Glutton

Guillaume de Nittis, Who Tried to Eat Himself

Carl Unthan, the Armless Fiddler

Wybrand Lolkes, the Dutch Dwarf

Eli Bowen and Charles Tripp

St Joseph of Copertino, the flying Friar

Alexis Vincent Charles Berbiguier, the Demon Bottler

Charles Charlesworth, Who Died Of Old Age at the Age of Seven

Claude Ambroise Seurat, the Living Skeleton

Francis Trovillou, the Horned Man

Baron D'Aguilar, of Starvation Farm

Daniel Lambert, of Surprising Corpulency

Joanna Southcott, an Extraordinary Fanatic

Daniel Cuerton, and his Astonishing Feats

Barbara Urselin, the Hairy-Faced Woman

Even Fleigen, Who Lived on the Smell of Flowers

Elizabeth Woodcock, Who Was Buried in Snow Nearly Eight Days

Thomas Hills Everitt, the Enormous Baby

Joseph Capper, the Enemy of Flies

Thomas Hudson, Remarkable for his Misfortunes

Deacon François de Pans, of Numerous Austerities

Louise Clement, Born with One Eye

Fakir Agastiya of Bengal, Who kept his Arm in the Air for Ten Years

Joseph Pujol, Le Pétomane

The Wonderful Two-Headed Girl

Miss Atkinson, the Wonderful Pig-Faced Lady

Dulle Griet, a Character in a Bruegel Painting

Henry Constantine Jennings, the Remarkable Virtuoso

Neville Vadio, the Blind Caricaturist