Bondeson's tour through the world of medical and cultural oddities is both unsettling and uncompromising. He details the lives and pains of parasitic twins, dicephali (two-headed people), those with hypertrichosis (wolf-people), giants, dwarfs, horned folk, and live animal-eaters. The level of research and supporting evidence is astounding, but at times it seems like the author is condemning his fellow frightened man too much. The book ends rather abruptly, with no real conclusion. Interesting at any rate. ( )