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Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.21 — 110,834 ratings — published 2014
The Craziest Book Ever Written (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 17 times as morbid)
avg rating 3.55 — 153 ratings — published
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.06 — 244,499 ratings — published 2003
American Gods: Tenth Anniversary (American Gods, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.10 — 997,774 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 — 47,645 ratings — published 2017
Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? And Other Questions About Dead Bodies (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.12 — 48,767 ratings — published 2019
All the Living and the Dead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.25 — 12,970 ratings — published 2022
Past Mortems: Life and Death Behind Mortuary Doors (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as morbid)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,573 ratings — published 2017
The Butcher and the Wren (Dr. Wren Muller, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as morbid)
avg rating 3.75 — 113,644 ratings — published 2022
Tender Is the Flesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as morbid)
avg rating 3.77 — 436,130 ratings — published 2017
House of Leaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.09 — 206,788 ratings — published 2000
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,076,218 ratings — published 1992
Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as morbid)
avg rating 3.98 — 6,977 ratings — published 2020
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 — 23,411 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 — 28,416 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 4.23 — 14,596 ratings — published 2003
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,940,142 ratings — published 1890
Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as morbid)
avg rating 3.90 — 7,458 ratings — published 2017
A Taste for Poison: Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.12 — 9,916 ratings — published 2022
Perfect Victim: The True Story of "The Girl in the Box" by the D.A. Who Prosecuted Her Captor (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.00 — 5,673 ratings — published 1989
Devil's Knot: The True Story of the West Memphis Three (Justice Knot, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.16 — 12,972 ratings — published 2002
The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy: The Shocking Inside Story (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.14 — 113,754 ratings — published 1980
The Anatomical Venus: Wax, God, Death & the Ecstatic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.45 — 281 ratings — published 2016
Gory Details: Adventures from the Dark Side of Science (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.08 — 6,597 ratings — published 2021
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as morbid)
avg rating 3.85 — 884,105 ratings — published 2005
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as morbid)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,486,221 ratings — published 1915
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,802,882 ratings — published 2012
The Lovely Bones (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as morbid)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,476,043 ratings — published 2002
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 4 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,799,552 ratings — published 2010
Geek Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as morbid)
avg rating 3.95 — 74,103 ratings — published 1989
Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America’s Cemeteries (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as morbid)
avg rating 3.97 — 4,469 ratings — published 2022
Lapvona (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as morbid)
avg rating 3.54 — 105,724 ratings — published 2022
Confessions of a Funeral Director: How the Business of Death Saved My Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as morbid)
avg rating 3.76 — 2,673 ratings — published 2017
Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as morbid)
avg rating 3.60 — 41,130 ratings — published 2005
Lady Killers: Deadly Women Throughout History (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as morbid)
avg rating 3.81 — 15,281 ratings — published 2017
Little Lost Angel (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,024 ratings — published 1995
Gone at Midnight: The Tragic True Story Behind the Unsolved Internet Sensation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as morbid)
avg rating 3.19 — 1,637 ratings — published 2020
Hope: A Memoir of Survival in Cleveland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.37 — 19,824 ratings — published 2015
Life After Death (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as morbid)
avg rating 3.98 — 9,939 ratings — published 2012
On the Farm (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.14 — 3,139 ratings — published 2010
The Killing of Julia Wallace (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as morbid)
avg rating 3.98 — 64 ratings — published 1969
On the House: The Bizarre Killing of Michael Malloy (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as morbid)
avg rating 3.92 — 96 ratings — published 2005
Killer Clown: The John Wayne Gacy Murders (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as morbid)
avg rating 3.94 — 7,136 ratings — published 1983
The Risk (Mindf*ck, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.25 — 402,365 ratings — published 2016
Six of Crows (Six of Crows, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,183,236 ratings — published 2015
The Morbid Anatomy Anthology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.38 — 146 ratings — published 2014
Dr. Mütter's Marvels: A True Tale of Intrigue and Innovation at the Dawn of Modern Medicine (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.01 — 8,472 ratings — published 2014
Down Among the Dead Men: A Year in the Life of a Mortuary Technician (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as morbid)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,554 ratings — published 2010
Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,482 ratings — published 2019
All That Remains: A Life in Death (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.16 — 16,262 ratings — published 2018
“If this is the book I think it is... I'm relatively certain it's human.'
A hot, sour feeling rose in the back of Esther's throat. 'What do you mean, human?'
'I mean the thread looks like it could be a combination of hair and sinew. The glue is likely rendered collagen.' He pinched the cover between thumb and forefinger. 'The leather's probably human skin.'
'Okay,' Collins said, 'great, well, if you need me, I'll be outside screaming.”
― Ink Blood Sister Scribe
A hot, sour feeling rose in the back of Esther's throat. 'What do you mean, human?'
'I mean the thread looks like it could be a combination of hair and sinew. The glue is likely rendered collagen.' He pinched the cover between thumb and forefinger. 'The leather's probably human skin.'
'Okay,' Collins said, 'great, well, if you need me, I'll be outside screaming.”
― Ink Blood Sister Scribe
“This was one day Gloria had no reason to be morbid, but she was more morbid than ever.”
― They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
― They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
