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Bloomsbury presents Strange Nature by Mary Watson, read by Breffni Holahan Jasmin has always known that monsters are real. And they wear ordinary faces. When she was a child, she witnessed her famous, adored grandfather attempt to kill her grandmother. Now Jasmin is eighteen, watchful and...

Life is strange, naturally you want to hear about it. Strange by Nature is your guide to the strange, weird and unbelievable side of nature. Professional naturalists present weekly curated stories about just how strange nature can get.

"Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio" or "Strange Tales of Liaozhai") is a collection of nearly five hundred mostly supernatural tales written by Pu Songling during the early Qing Dynasty. It was written in Classical Chinese rather than Vernacular Chinese. Pu is believed to have completed the majority of the tales sometime in 1679, though he could have added entries as late as 1707. He borrows from a folk tradition of oral storytelling to put to paper a series of captivating, colorful stories, where the boundary between reality and the odd or fantastic is blurred. The cast of characters ...

Animals come in all shapes and sizes. Some are cute and cuddly. Some are frightening and fierce. And some are downright strange! Have you ever seen a blobfish? This deep-sea creature looks like a swimming blob. How about a glass frog? You can see right through its skin to its beating heart! Take a look at these amazing animals and many more strange beasts.

After Quentin's bike breaks down in a strange town, he and his friend become surrounded by feral cats.

In Strange Tools: Art and Human Nature, philosopher and cognitive scientist Alva Noë raises a number of profound questions: What is art? Why do we value art as we do? What does art reveal about our nature? Drawing on philosophy, art history, and cognitive science, and making provocative use of examples from all three of these fields, Noë offers new answers to such questions. He also shows why recent efforts to frame questions about art in terms of neuroscience and evolutionary biology alone have been and will continue to be unsuccessful.

This aptly titled collection of early weird fiction from the masters of the macabre Émile Erckmann and Alexandre Chatrian (jointly penning tales under the Erckmann-Chatrian name) includes a bevy of strange incidents and fantastical occurrences to unsettle and delight. Experiences stories praised by and served as influence on the likes of ghost story maestro M. R. James and the demented king of the eldritch horror himself H. P. Lovecraft. - Summary by Ben Tucker

A series of mysterious and increasingly alarming crimes are taking place across London. People are being injured, even murdered without mercy and without reason. And yet, the perpetrator cannot be found. The crimes happen overnight, but in the morning the murderer is gone "like breath upon a mirror". Mr Utterson (a lawyer), Dr Lanyon and Dr Jekyll each bring their insights to this sinister conundrum. Robert Louis Stevenson's classic story of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is brought to life with a cast of voices in this dramatic reading. Only 10 chapters long, tradition says that Stevenson wrote the ...

Join host Lucien Graves as he uncovers biology's most shocking anomalies—from diseases that turn flesh to bone, to toads that spontaneously explode, to organisms that defy life's fundamental rules. Each episode reveals nature at its most unpredictable and bewildering. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai This content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AI.

This audiobook explores some of the most bizarre and unique animals on the planet! Whether they look or behave oddly, or have special powers or abilities, they all have one thing in common: they are strange. Featuring the hoatzin, tuatara, grunion, gecko, and many more!

The Plant Hunter's Atlas is a volume telling some of the most extraordinary tales of horticultural discovery and exploring the characters behind the stories. Taking in the world's inhabited continents and spanning the centuries, the stories range from tales of derring-do in the age of discovery to modern-day botanists working at the cutting-edge of science. The text explores how plant hunters have been inspired by everything from scientific curiosity to economic greed, and their own ingrained sense of adventure. 

Join Ranger Theo Wilder as he decodes the hidden language of wild places through vivid backcountry storytelling. Each episode reveals how trails, rivers, wildlife, and landscapes speak to those patient enough to listen, teaching awareness and respect for the unpredictable world beyond civilization. For more content like this, visit QuietPlease.ai

Strange Waters is a podcast about the more mysterious side of our watery planet. Join Dr. Shea Steingass, a PhD in marine biology, as she explores the animals, mysteries, and enduring legends of Earth's bodies of water from the perspective of a scientist in love with the strange.

Why do we do things the way we do them? We take on customs from our ancestors, then teach them to the next generation, often without thinking. But when we take a step back, they can seem bizarre, arbitrary...and sometimes, profoundly beautiful. Join Sasha Sagan, author of "For Small Creatures Such as We," as she talks to smart, funny, interesting celebrities and scholars, uncovering just how weirdly wonderful we Earthlings can be.