Strange Stories Amaz

In this book, you will learn interesting facts, for instance, that there might be living heirs of Marie Antoinette, the once ill-fated Queen of France, and that the man in the "iron mask," wasn't really imprisoned wearing a mask of iron, but of velvet! If you enjoy folklore, hoaxes, eccentric people (e.g., a woman worth $100 million dollars, who did business on the floor of her bank), then you will enjoy this delightfully-entertaining book published in 1981 by Reader's Digest!

It's one of those books where you can just grab it and open it to any random page and be interested in what you find. There are some portrayals of violence and nudity, but nothing truly offensive (i.e. Dante's Inferno, Day of Judgement, etc.). A really good easy reader.

I found this book for the first time when I was 8 years old. My family had moved into the house of my father's godmother. I was an avid reader, and searching through her masses of books I found Strange Stories, Amazing Facts, with it's red cover and pages full of surprise and adventure. From trying to decipher the mysteries of the most haunted house in the world to traveling through the jungles to discover Angkor Watt, this book to me on a journey of imagination. I loaned the book several years ago to a young friend whom I thought could use the adventure. I'm glad to be able to buy it for myself again.

Every person who likes to read will enjoy this book. In the section about animals, there is an article about how extinct species can be brought back. They brought the Tarpan horse back by cross-breeding certain types of horses from all over the world. There's a story about freezing humans with diseases to bring them back to life in the future when a cure is found. This was written almost 30 years ago, and this still has not been mastered in our time. There's stories of hauntings, and unexplained events. It's a book with a bunch of short stories grouped in sections. Excellent reading.