Most tasteless author

Karl Shaw is one of north Staffordshire’s most famous authors – in a kind of very underground way… He collates weird and, er, unregarded facts from history (“Five People Who Died During Sex’ is one of his lists books) and sticks them together.

However, in other books he also goes off on totally crazed flights of imagination and completely invents strange surreal untruths - and then his stuff really is off the spectrum.

Most interestingly, he seems to keep himself anonymous. Do you know: I even wonder if his real name is Karl Shaw. Hmm.
And I actually even believe that another, similar, writer from North Staffordshire, one Teddy Salad (who wrote A Poseur's Guide to the Potteries & District) could actually be Karl Shaw.

It’s all very mysterious.  Certainly I won’t be selling these copies of his works until I know more… If you know anything - please leave a comment!

Link: Karl Shaw publications