#weirdathon #tbr #books (3/7): the #anthology edition haha: #significantobjects: 100 extraordinary stories about ordinary things edited by #joshuaglenn & #robwalker, #machineofdeath: a collection of #stories about people who know how they will die edited by #ryannorth, #matthewbennardo & #davidmalki, the @morbidanatomy anthology edited by #joannaebenstein & #colindickey, and my mother she killed me, my father he ate me: forty new fairy tales edited by #katebernheimer. Significant objects is an interesting experiment where writers wrote stories about unimpressive, mundane objects found at thrift stories and yard sales. Then items that were bought for $1 sold for THOUSANDS on eBay! Yowza! You get to read the #stories and stats here. The machine takes a blood sample and tells the user how they will die. These are the stories. What an awesome premise! And because you got this far in the post, @topatoco is having a HUGE #sale as machine of death is celebrating their 10 year anniversary (whoa). For only a sawbuck each, you can get this book, it's sequel, the storytelling card game where you have to figure out how your target dies, and its immense expansion set! I just bought the sequel and the games for $38 including shipping! What a steal! Here's the link: https://www.topatoco.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=TO&Product_Code=MOD-SALE&Category_Code=MOD It's a birthday gift for a friend who's a storytelling fiend and a huge tabletop fan, tho the book is for me hehe. I want to post this sale on Facebook but I'm gonna have to block him and his cousin from seeing it cuz she might buy it for him. I hope he likes it! The morbid anatomy anthology contains #essays from lectures that took place at the museum itself. They're beautifully illustrated with macabre topics like catacombs, books made from human skin, death-themed Parisian cafes, post-Mortem photography, a truck stop populated with human skulls, and more. You cannot get any weirder than that. The fairy tales book contains stories from #aimeebender #neilgaiman #joycecaroloates and more! #fairytales have always been the quintessential #weird and I'm thrilled to have this 👽 #topatoco #bookathon #bookstagram