![Copla singers, killers, Buffalo Bill and a playboy vampire: The book 'One, great and strange' compiles the forgotten tales of Spanish history.](https://imagenes.elpais.com/resizer/v2/FBBXOBEI65CRTP6NTLOPQECI2Q.jpg?auth=f4c12cb699a2f63d4ec3a2b3ecf044530c28f6a9e019feb733deadae00503373&width=414&height=233&smart=true)
Opus Dei funding a Charles Manson record and a Ku Klux Klan couplet: Scandals of the Spanish underground
Presented as an illustrated dictionary, a new book delves into the bizarre as the essence of Spanish national identity, in contrast to the epic narratives of patriotism adopted by the far right