John Brown

Not the abolitionist. The three volumes here are collections of trivia, shocking facts and unbelievable facts, the kind assembled cheaply from existing compilations and sold in large numbers, and the name attached functions as a house byline, not as a person with a traceable career. None of the material is original research and none of the facts carries a source. This is a real and substantial corner of publishing, and naming it is more useful than pretending there is a writer here to describe.