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Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.22 — 109,937 ratings — published 2014
The Craziest Book Ever Written (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 17 times as morbid)
avg rating 3.54 — 152 ratings — published
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.06 — 242,675 ratings — published 2003
American Gods: Tenth Anniversary (American Gods, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.10 — 994,862 ratings — published 2001
From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.30 — 47,230 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 — 48,352 ratings — published 2019
All the Living and the Dead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.25 — 12,788 ratings — published 2022
The Butcher and the Wren (Dr. Wren Muller, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as morbid)
avg rating 3.75 — 111,664 ratings — published 2022
Past Mortems: Life and Death Behind Mortuary Doors (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as morbid)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,553 ratings — published 2017
Tender Is the Flesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as morbid)
avg rating 3.77 — 421,204 ratings — published 2017
House of Leaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.09 — 204,186 ratings — published 2000
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,056,515 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 — 6,897 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 — 23,105 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 — 28,142 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 — 14,480 ratings — published 2003
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,916,098 ratings — published 1890
Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as morbid)
avg rating 3.90 — 7,337 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 — 9,742 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 — 5,651 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 — 12,902 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 — 113,027 ratings — published 1980
The Anatomical Venus: Wax, God, Death & the Ecstatic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.44 — 279 ratings — published 2016
Gory Details: Adventures from the Dark Side of Science (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.07 — 6,500 ratings — published 2021
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as morbid)
avg rating 3.85 — 871,883 ratings — published 2005
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as morbid)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,463,164 ratings — published 1915
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,772,381 ratings — published 2012
The Lovely Bones (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as morbid)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,470,604 ratings — published 2002
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 4 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,767,974 ratings — published 2010
Geek Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as morbid)
avg rating 3.95 — 73,618 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 — 4,392 ratings — published 2022
Lapvona (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as morbid)
avg rating 3.54 — 103,415 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 — 2,627 ratings — published 2017
Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as morbid)
avg rating 3.60 — 40,972 ratings — published 2005
Lady Killers: Deadly Women Throughout History (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as morbid)
avg rating 3.80 — 15,095 ratings — published 2017
Little Lost Angel (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,018 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 — 1,631 ratings — published 2020
Hope: A Memoir of Survival in Cleveland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.37 — 19,692 ratings — published 2015
Life After Death (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as morbid)
avg rating 3.98 — 9,908 ratings — published 2012
On the Farm (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.14 — 3,099 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 — 7,104 ratings — published 1983
The Risk (Mindf*ck, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.25 — 389,635 ratings — published 2016
Six of Crows (Six of Crows, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,171,124 ratings — published 2015
The Morbid Anatomy Anthology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.38 — 147 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 — 8,425 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 — 2,538 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 — 4,457 ratings — published 2019
All That Remains: A Life in Death (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.16 — 15,995 ratings — published 2018
“By now, I can only see with the help of sunlight. Once the sun sets, I am taken down into the valley of shadows.”
― The Boneyard: Short fictions of the morbid and macabre: The Boneyard Series: Vol 1
― The Boneyard: Short fictions of the morbid and macabre: The Boneyard Series: Vol 1
“Eyes as dark as devil’s
Mouth twisted in a salacious grin
The wilderness was the attire
Of the killer and its black fiend”
― Rainbow Rains: A Poetry Anthology
Mouth twisted in a salacious grin
The wilderness was the attire
Of the killer and its black fiend”
― Rainbow Rains: A Poetry Anthology












