The world's worst: a guide to the most disgusting, hideous, inept, and dangerous people, places, and things on earth

Bookstore shelves are lined with tomes dedicated to the finest things that life has to offer.

This is all well and good, but the real entertainment is to be found not in the cream of the crop, but at the bottom of the barrel.

The World's Worst is a celebration/indictment of nearly 50 infamous and little-known exemplars of the awful.

In thoroughly researched, scathingly funny essays, author Mark Frauenfelder avoids the obvious and digs deep to tell the fascinating tales of the worst people, places, and things on Earth for the reader's amusement and edification.

Half of the entries are also mischieviously illustrated by the author.

Addictively readable, and sure to appeal to fans of the popular Worst-Case Scenario and Darwin Awards series, The World's Worst is hilariously unafraid to wallow in the mire.Selected Horrible Highlights:Most Unappealing FetishMost Disgusting Coffee DrinkMost Horrific Self-Help TechniqueLeast Adorable PetSaddest Fate for an Island NationWorst Molasses Related Disaster