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Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.21 — 112,808 ratings — published 2014
The Craziest Book Ever Written (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 17 times as morbid)
avg rating 3.55 — 152 ratings — published
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.06 — 248,353 ratings — published 2003
American Gods (American Gods, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,004,136 ratings — published 2001
From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.29 — 48,448 ratings — published 2017
All the Living and the Dead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.25 — 13,455 ratings — published 2022
Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? And Other Questions About Dead Bodies (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.12 — 49,534 ratings — published 2019
Past Mortems: Life and Death Behind Mortuary Doors (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as morbid)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,612 ratings — published 2017
The Butcher and the Wren (Dr. Wren Muller, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as morbid)
avg rating 3.75 — 118,872 ratings — published 2022
Tender Is the Flesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as morbid)
avg rating 3.77 — 472,402 ratings — published 2017
Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as morbid)
avg rating 3.98 — 7,136 ratings — published 2020
House of Leaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.09 — 212,589 ratings — published 2000
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,119,312 ratings — published 1992
Perfect Victim: The True Story of "The Girl in the Box" by the D.A. Who Prosecuted Her Captor (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.01 — 5,739 ratings — published 1989
Devil's Knot: The True Story of the West Memphis Three (Justice Knot, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.16 — 13,130 ratings — published 2002
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.30 — 24,025 ratings — published 2017
Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.27 — 29,021 ratings — published 2014
Death's Acre: Inside the Legendary Forensic Lab the Body Farm Where the Dead Do Tell Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.22 — 14,812 ratings — published 2003
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,996,513 ratings — published 1890
Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as morbid)
avg rating 3.91 — 7,676 ratings — published 2017
Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America’s Cemeteries (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as morbid)
avg rating 3.97 — 4,687 ratings — published 2022
A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.12 — 10,191 ratings — published 2022
Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as morbid)
avg rating 3.60 — 41,403 ratings — published 2005
Little Lost Angel (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,039 ratings — published 1995
Gone at Midnight: The Tragic True Story Behind the Unsolved Internet Sensation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as morbid)
avg rating 3.19 — 1,656 ratings — published 2020
On the Farm (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.14 — 3,221 ratings — published 2010
The Killing of Julia Wallace (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.00 — 66 ratings — published 1969
On the House: The Bizarre Killing of Michael Malloy (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as morbid)
avg rating 3.92 — 96 ratings — published 2005
Killer Clown: The John Wayne Gacy Murders (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as morbid)
avg rating 3.94 — 7,198 ratings — published 1983
The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy: The Shocking Inside Story (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.13 — 115,270 ratings — published 1980
The Anatomical Venus: Wax, God, Death & the Ecstatic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.46 — 280 ratings — published 2016
Gory Details: Adventures from the Dark Side of Science (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.07 — 6,882 ratings — published 2021
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.15 — 197,247 ratings — published 2016
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as morbid)
avg rating 3.85 — 910,822 ratings — published 2005
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as morbid)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,549,407 ratings — published 1915
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,875,959 ratings — published 2012
The Lovely Bones (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as morbid)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,487,984 ratings — published 2002
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 4 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,867,168 ratings — published 2010
Geek Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as morbid)
avg rating 3.95 — 75,145 ratings — published 1989
The Girl in the Leaves (ebook)
by (shelved 3 times as morbid)
avg rating 3.43 — 4,025 ratings — published 2012
I Who Have Never Known Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.04 — 692,299 ratings — published 1995
Lapvona (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as morbid)
avg rating 3.54 — 111,022 ratings — published 2022
Deranged: The Shocking True Story of America's Most Fiendish Killer (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as morbid)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,265 ratings — published 1990
Confessions of a Funeral Director: How the Business of Death Saved My Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as morbid)
avg rating 3.77 — 2,882 ratings — published 2017
Lady Killers: Deadly Women Throughout History (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as morbid)
avg rating 3.80 — 15,584 ratings — published 2017
Killing Women: The True Story of Serial Killer Don Miller's Reign of Terror (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as morbid)
avg rating 3.66 — 502 ratings — published
Cruel Sacrifice (ebook)
by (shelved 3 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.02 — 6,454 ratings — published 1994
Sole Survivor: The Inspiring True Story of Coming Face to Face with the Infamous Railroad Killer (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.25 — 732 ratings — published
Haunted America FAQ: All That's Left to Know About the Most Haunted Houses, Cemeteries, Battlefields, and More (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as morbid)
avg rating 3.06 — 18 ratings — published 2015
The Camp Scott Murders: The 1977 Oklahoma Girl Scout Murders (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as morbid)
avg rating 3.30 — 218 ratings — published 2014
“There is no rest for the humble except in despising the great, whose only thought of the people is inspired by self-interest or sadism.”
― Journey to the End of the Night
― Journey to the End of the Night
“If on thoughts of death we are fed,
Thus, a coffin, became my bed.”
― Phantom Phantasia: Twenty Illustrated Poems Inspired by Gaston Leroux's Opera Ghost
Thus, a coffin, became my bed.”
― Phantom Phantasia: Twenty Illustrated Poems Inspired by Gaston Leroux's Opera Ghost
