History's Strangest Deaths highlights the many and varied ways that people have met their end over the years, from the foolish to the unfortunate.

From an ancient Greek painter dying of laughter to an ancient Chinese duke falling into a toilet; from a Viking raider being bitten by a severed head to a lawyer shooting himself to prove a legal point; from the two French kings who were killed by door frames to the two British parliamentarians who were killed by turnips - there are countless amusing, farcical, absurd, and ultimately very strange deaths from across history. History's Strangest Deaths offers fifty of the best of them, spanning thousands of years of history to recent times.

The debut book from Riley Knight, host of the popular podcast Half-Arsed History, History's Strangest Deaths is proof of the old saying: comedy equals tragedy plus time.