The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases

From some of the most profound imaginations in writing today, including eight World Fantasy Award winners, comes a strange and marvelous compendium of diseases both rare and fantastical. Offering complete histories, symptom guides, and suggested treatments for such ailments as Pentzler's Lubriciousness and Printer's Evil, here is a dose of good humor for every sleep-deprived medical student, overworked physician, hypochondriac, and curious reader. Beautifully illustrated to match its Victorian "origins," The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide is a clever visual and literary treat. The Guide was named a Book Sense 76 pick and nominated for the Hugo Award, the World Fantasy Award, the British Fantasy Award, and the International Horror Guild Award. Contributors include Kage Baker, K.J. Bishop, Richard Calder, Paul Di Filippo, Cory Doctorow, Neil Gaiman, Tim Lebbon, China Mieville, and Liz williams, among others.