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Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History
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3.90 avg rating — 7,140 ratings
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Cemetery Stories: Haunted Graveyards, Embalming Secrets, and the Life of a Corpse After Death
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3.79 avg rating — 628 ratings
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Corpses, Coffins, and Crypts: A History of Burial
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3.63 avg rating — 474 ratings
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Severed: A History of Heads Lost and Heads Found
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3.75 avg rating — 1,842 ratings
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When the Guillotine Fell: The Bloody Beginning and Horrifying End to France's River of Blood, 1791--1977
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3.91 avg rating — 64 ratings
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Making the Monster: The Science Behind Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
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3.90 avg rating — 660 ratings
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The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple
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4.17 avg rating — 19,538 ratings
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The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
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4.01 avg rating — 37,095 ratings
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Stiffs, Skulls & Skeletons: Medical Photography and Symbolism
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4.55 avg rating — 42 ratings
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How to Kill Friends and Eviscerate People
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4.48 avg rating — 40 ratings
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How Not To Commit Murder
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3.52 avg rating — 119 ratings
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Elizabeth Bathory: The Blood Countess
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3.55 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Limbs
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3.94 avg rating — 186 ratings
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Vlad the Impaler: In Search of the Real Dracula
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3.75 avg rating — 497 ratings
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Death's Acre: Inside the Legendary Forensic Lab the Body Farm Where the Dead Do Tell Tales
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4.23 avg rating — 14,287 ratings
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The Culture of Flushing: A Social and Legal History of Sewage
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3.83 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Waste and Want: A Social History of Trash
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3.81 avg rating — 462 ratings
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The Dying Game: A Curious History of Death
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4.06 avg rating — 64 ratings
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Execution: A History of Capital Punishment in Britain
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3.97 avg rating — 101 ratings
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The Living Dead: Inside the Palermo Crypt
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Lucrezia Borgia: Life, Love, and Death in Renaissance Italy
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3.72 avg rating — 4,687 ratings
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Death to Dust: What Happens to Dead Bodies?
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4.41 avg rating — 231 ratings
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The History of Torture and Execution: From Early Civilization through Medieval Times to the Present
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3.72 avg rating — 69 ratings
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Acrotomophilia Maniac
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4.04 avg rating — 148 ratings
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The Anatomy Murders: Being the True and Spectacular History of Edinburgh's Notorious Burke and Hare and of the Man of Science Who Abetted Them in the Commission of Their Most Heinous Crimes
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3.66 avg rating — 195 ratings
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The Mammoth Book of Jack the Ripper (Mammoth Books)
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3.78 avg rating — 706 ratings
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Speak of the Devil: How The Satanic Temple is Changing the Way We Talk about Religion
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4.32 avg rating — 1,021 ratings
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Fragonard Museum: The Écorchés
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4.40 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Sybil Leek's Book of Curses
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4.28 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Final Truth : The Autobiography of a Serial Killer
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4.11 avg rating — 721 ratings
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Death: A Graveside Companion
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4.49 avg rating — 365 ratings
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Sweeney Todd; or, The String of Pearls
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3.56 avg rating — 2,286 ratings
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My Eyes Are Black Holes
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3.62 avg rating — 198 ratings
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The Lazarus Syndrome: Burial Alive and Other Horrors of the Undead
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4.03 avg rating — 31 ratings
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Death and Exile: The Ethnic Cleansing of Ottoman Muslims, 1821-1922
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4.46 avg rating — 92 ratings
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Ordeal by Hunger: The Story of the Donner Party
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4.08 avg rating — 1,947 ratings
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Veneration: Unveiling the Ancient Realms of Demonic Kings and Satan’s Battle Plan for Armageddon
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4.59 avg rating — 92 ratings
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The Devil in the White City
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 755,747 ratings
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Romans of Mass Destruction: How the Vatican created and enabled some of history’s most monstrous serial killers.
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3.80 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Female Serial Killers: How and Why Women Become Monsters
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3.82 avg rating — 2,055 ratings
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