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Chapter 5: HUMAN BODY HORRORS

126 How tough are you?
their bodies to extreme limits
116 Horrible handscape Individuals who have pushed
Unhygienic hands 128 Risky business
118 Destination: human Ingredients in food that are
Pesky parasites bad for you
120 Under attack 130 Bizarre ER
How the body defends itself
Strange accidents
against pathogens 132 Trip alert!
122 Emergency service Vacation health hazards
The body’s fight-or-flight 134 The gruesome tale of Typhoid Mary
response to danger Comic strip about a typhoid carrier
124 Outbreak!
Epidemics and pandemics

138 Wish you were here?
Killer environments
Chapter 6: PETRIFYING PLACES AND KILLER CULTURE
140 Deadly diner
152 Philippe Petit /
Dangerous foods
Evel Knievel
142 Toolshed terrors
DIY disasters Two comic strips about
two stunt stars
154 Endurance
144 Death by idiocy
Silly ways to die Human feats of achievement
146 Killer careers
156 Frenzied festivals
Risky jobs Dangerous festivals
148 Feel the burn
Extreme sports 158 How to survive a horror movie
Rules of a horror movie
150 Dancing with death
160 Come dine with…
The undead
Crazy stunts Nightmares and phobias
162 All in the mind

Chapter 7: PAST PERILS

178 Medical horrors
Unspeakable surgical procedures
166 Killers on the loose 180 Killer cures
Ruthless killers of the past Bad medicine
168 World of pain 182 The most dangerous
Torture methods from jobs in history
the history books The worst jobs… ever!
170 Murder most foul 184 The most dangerous age?
Infamous murderers Which period in history was
172 Weapons of war the most perilous? 188 Index
Weaponry through the ages 186 Blasts from the past
174 Mad monarchs Prehistoric terrors 192 Acknowledgments
Ruthless rulers
176 Death in Sarajevo / Rasputin
Two comic strips detailing
the assassinations of historical figures

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