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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 — 112,805 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 — 248,345 ratings — published 2003
American Gods (American Gods, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,004,123 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 — 48,446 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 — 49,533 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 — 118,864 ratings — published 2022
Tender Is the Flesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as morbid)
avg rating 3.77 — 472,346 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 — 212,575 ratings — published 2000
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,119,233 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 — 24,024 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 — 1,996,406 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 — 4,686 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 — 197,232 ratings — published 2016
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as morbid)
avg rating 3.85 — 910,789 ratings — published 2005
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as morbid)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,549,290 ratings — published 1915
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,875,870 ratings — published 2012
The Lovely Bones (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as morbid)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,487,973 ratings — published 2002
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 4 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,867,067 ratings — published 2010
Geek Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as morbid)
avg rating 3.95 — 75,144 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 — 692,137 ratings — published 1995
Lapvona (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as morbid)
avg rating 3.54 — 111,012 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 — 15,583 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 are no ghosts, but up here”—she gestured toward her head—“it’s a haunted house.”
― Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
― Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
“In the end, this volume should be read a s a collection of love stories, Above all, they are tales of love, not the love with which so many stories end – the love of fidelity, kindness and fertility – but the other side of love, its cruelty, sterility and duplicity. In a way, the decadents did accept Nordau's idea of the artist as monster. But in nature, the glory and panacea of romanticism, they found nothing. Theirs is an aesthetic that disavows the natural and with it the body. The truly beautiful body is dead, because it is empty. Decadent work is always morbid, but its attraction to death is through art. What they refused was the condemnation of that monster. And yet despite the decadent celebration of artifice, these stories record art's failure in the struggle against natural horror. Nature fights back and wins, and decadent writing remains a remarkable account of that failure.”
― The Decadent Reader: Fiction, Fantasy, and Perversion from Fin-de-Siècle France
― The Decadent Reader: Fiction, Fantasy, and Perversion from Fin-de-Siècle France
