A riveting collection of true stories which are so strange as to be almost unbelievable.

• "The Terrible Story of the Mary Russell"
• "The Murder of the Countess Görlitz"
• "The Great Bank Forgery"
• "Moonlight Sonata"
• "Gretna Green Marriages"
• "Count Borulawski", by Jen Grenier
• "The French Werewolf"
• "I Will Pay You All Tomorrow"
• "The Telephone at the Oratory"
• "The Ghostly Passenger"
• "The Diver"
• "The Bloody Hand"
• "The Story of Kaspar Hauser"
• "Across the Australian Desert"