So let the weirdness begin! The editors of Fortean Times, now Britain's fastest growing magazine (and favorite cult oddity) present Strange Days #2, the only book this year to tell you why Nepal's most popular newborn boy's name is "Eddie Fisher," and what investigators are doing about the exsanguinating (blood-sucking) creatures terrorizing South American ranchers. And that's just for starters. The next installment in our fun, fantastical series, Strange Days #2 offers a tour-de-force of the bizarre, the freaky, and the certifiably strange-from gay octopuses to cottage-crushing meteors, survivors of 7,000-foot-free falls to the legless ghosts of Bosnia. Fortean editors use actual news clips from publications around the world to document hundreds of stories about the coincidental, the abnormal, the paranormal, and the things that just make you go "hmm"-like France's latest serial felon, a bank robber who goes to work dressed as a giant eggplant.

But Strange Days #2 is more than a collection of sensational curios. Fortean Times employs hundreds of correspondents in over 35 countries to collect and investigate the facts behind the fiction and to uncover the science behind the inexplicable. With their new 1996 Strangeness Index (a Strange Days exclusive) Fortean editors also calculate global weirdness (last year the world was 1.5% less weird, by the way) and award their highest Fortean honors-Schwascars-for achievement in categories like "vampires-in-training" and "demented animal attacks." It's all the weirdness fit to print.

"Stories unfold with elegant understatement, and the most pompously educated people are happy to be seen sitting down for hours with the Fortean Times."
-- The Times (London)

The Edinburgh Review says:
"To call it the most remarkable magazine in the English-speaking world is to be needlessly restrained."