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Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.21 — 111,900 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 — 246,526 ratings — published 2003
American Gods (American Gods, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,001,182 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 — 48,067 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 — 49,174 ratings — published 2019
All the Living and the Dead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.25 — 13,220 ratings — published 2022
Past Mortems: Life and Death Behind Mortuary Doors (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as morbid)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,596 ratings — published 2017
The Butcher and the Wren (Dr. Wren Muller, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as morbid)
avg rating 3.75 — 116,224 ratings — published 2022
Tender Is the Flesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as morbid)
avg rating 3.77 — 454,767 ratings — published 2017
House of Leaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.09 — 209,930 ratings — published 2000
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,098,399 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 — 7,058 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 — 23,731 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 — 28,740 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 — 14,724 ratings — published 2003
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,968,341 ratings — published 1890
Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as morbid)
avg rating 3.90 — 7,575 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 — 10,051 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 — 5,711 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 — 13,053 ratings — published 2002
The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy: The Shocking Inside Story (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.13 — 114,549 ratings — published 1980
The Anatomical Venus: Wax, God, Death & the Ecstatic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.46 — 281 ratings — published 2016
Gory Details: Adventures from the Dark Side of Science (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.07 — 6,769 ratings — published 2021
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as morbid)
avg rating 3.85 — 898,011 ratings — published 2005
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as morbid)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,516,902 ratings — published 1915
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,841,338 ratings — published 2012
The Lovely Bones (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as morbid)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,482,445 ratings — published 2002
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 4 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,835,044 ratings — published 2010
Geek Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as morbid)
avg rating 3.95 — 74,660 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 — 4,583 ratings — published 2022
Lapvona (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as morbid)
avg rating 3.54 — 108,406 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 3.77 — 2,803 ratings — published 2017
Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as morbid)
avg rating 3.60 — 41,287 ratings — published 2005
Lady Killers: Deadly Women Throughout History (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as morbid)
avg rating 3.80 — 15,445 ratings — published 2017
Little Lost Angel (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,036 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 — 1,648 ratings — published 2020
Hope: A Memoir of Survival in Cleveland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.37 — 19,992 ratings — published 2015
Life After Death (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as morbid)
avg rating 3.98 — 9,979 ratings — published 2012
On the Farm (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.14 — 3,180 ratings — published 2010
The Killing of Julia Wallace (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.00 — 65 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 3.95 — 7,174 ratings — published 1983
The Risk (Mindf*ck, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.25 — 419,256 ratings — published 2016
Six of Crows (Six of Crows, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,198,301 ratings — published 2015
The Morbid Anatomy Anthology (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.39 — 148 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 — 8,521 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 — 2,572 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 — 4,508 ratings — published 2019
All That Remains: A Life in Death (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as morbid)
avg rating 4.16 — 16,533 ratings — published 2018
“Adelaide Darke hated funerals, but probably not for the same reason other people did. For most, it was because of the grief, raw and twisting in their bellies. For others, it was the fact that attending one was a stark reminder of one’s own unpredictable mortality.
In Adelaide’s case, it was much simpler. She disliked funerals because they made her see things no one was supposed to see. Dead people, specifically.”
― Darke Homecoming
In Adelaide’s case, it was much simpler. She disliked funerals because they made her see things no one was supposed to see. Dead people, specifically.”
― Darke Homecoming
“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
