Brain Snacks: Tasty Tidbits of Knowledge
If the photographs aren't enough for you, there's a graphic-novel adaptation of the book with art by Cassandra Jean that Entertainment Weekly calls a "manga-style creepfest." We're in.
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Ransom Riggs likes photography, urban exploring, scuba diving and "traveling to places that are tricky to find on maps." Sounds like he and Jacob would get along pretty well.
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What do you think is scribbled on the backs off all those weird photos Riggs has in his collection? If you're curious, you're in luck—he published a whole book full of vintage photographs, including the writing on them from the pictures' original owners.
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Got a little plaque in your brain? Riggs can help. He was a long-time contributor to Mental Floss, writing articles about strange geographies and, of course, creepy Santas.
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Riggs's wife (no, her name isn't Hostage or Captive or anything like that) is also an author. Her Shatter Me series has five books.
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