A review by i_b_anoud
The Madman's Library: The Strangest Books, Manuscripts, and Other Literary Curiosities from History by Edward Brooke-Hitching

5.0

Many thanks to Netgalley and Chronicle Books for providing me with this ARC in exchange for an honest review.

I need a copy of book, I need it to exist in my book shelves asap. It was filled to the brim with awesome, funny, scary horrifying stories. My favorite story was the story of the war prisoner Peter Moen.
The Japanese farting competitions was hilarious, and the human skin book binding was horrifying. I had a sneak peek to the French revolution's atrocities with that maid pants story and smiled at the authors at the hoax section of the book.