morbid curiosity nonfiction
100. 
Hannah Mary Tabbs and the Disembodied Torso: A Tale of Race, Sex, and Violence in America 3.59 avg rating — 434 ratings
104. 
Mississippi Mud: Southern Justice and the Dixie Mafia
by:
Edward Humes
4.01 avg rating — 968 ratings 104. 
The Death of Kings: A Medical History of the Kings and Queens of England
by:
Clifford Brewer
3.83 avg rating — 255 ratings 104. 
Liner Notes: On Parents & Children, Exes & Excess, Death & Decay & a Few of My Other Favorite Things 3.78 avg rating — 404 ratings
107. 
Whatever Mother Says...: A True Story of a Mother, Madness and Murder
by:
Wensley Clarkson
3.86 avg rating — 2,809 ratings 
109. 
Advice for Future Corpses (And Those Who Love Them): A Practical Perspective on Death and Dying
by:
Sallie Tisdale
4.16 avg rating — 2,208 ratings 109. 
America's Dumbest Criminals: Based on True Stories from Law Enforcement Officials Across the Country
by:
Daniel R. Butler
3.58 avg rating — 299 ratings 109. 
Ray and Joe: The Story of a Man and His Dead Friend and Other Classic Comics really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 17 ratings
112. 
Lone Wolf: Eric Rudolph: Murder, Myth, and the Pursuit of an American Outlaw
by:
Maryanne Vollers
3.96 avg rating — 264 ratings 
114. 
The Sawbones Book: The Hilarious, Horrifying Road to Modern Medicine
by:
Justin McElroy
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3,803 ratings 
116. 
And the Dead Shall Rise: The Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frank
by:
Steve Oney
4.07 avg rating — 474 ratings 
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Tracking the Chupacabra: The Vampire Beast in Fact, Fiction, and Folklore
by:
Benjamin Radford
3.85 avg rating — 109 ratings 120. 
The Resurrectionist: The Lost Work of Dr. Spencer Black
by:
E.B. Hudspeth
3.61 avg rating — 7,974 ratings 120. 
The Perfect Father: The True Story of Chris Watts, His All-American Family, and a Shocking Murder
by:
John Glatt
3.90 avg rating — 9,401 ratings 120. 
Vampires Are Us: Understanding Our Love Affair with the Immortal Dark Side
by:
Margot Adler
3.43 avg rating — 86 ratings 
123. 
Banshees, Werewolves, Vampires, and Other Creatures of the Night: Facts, Fictions, and First-Hand Accounts
by:
Varla Ventura
3.54 avg rating — 157 ratings 
125. 
Vampires, Werewolves & Demons: Twentieth Century Reports in the Psychiatric Literature
by:
Richard Noll
3.71 avg rating — 28 ratings 125. 
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
by:
Sheri Fink
3.93 avg rating — 39,332 ratings 128. 
The Franklin Cover-Up: Child Abuse, Satanism, and Murder in Nebraska
by:
John W. DeCamp
4.17 avg rating — 926 ratings 128. 
Spirits of New Orleans: Voodoo Curses, Vampire Legends and Cities of the Dead
by:
Kala Ambrose
3.97 avg rating — 206 ratings 130. 
Bitter Blood: A True Story of Southern Family Pride, Madness, and Multiple Murder
by:
Jerry Bledsoe
4.04 avg rating — 10,138 ratings 
132. 
North Yorkshire Moors Murders: An Anthology Of True Crime
by:
Jeannette Hensby
4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings 
134. 
Confessions of a Funeral Director: How the Business of Death Saved My Life
by:
Caleb Wilde
3.75 avg rating — 2,519 ratings 134. 
The Mapmaker's Wife: A True Tale of Love, Murder, and Survival in the Amazon
by:
Robert Whitaker
3.63 avg rating — 1,815 ratings 
137. 
Food for the Dead: On the Trail of New England's Vampires
by:
Michael E. Bell
3.61 avg rating — 344 ratings 138. 
Does This Mean You'll See Me Naked?: A Funeral Director Reflects on 30 Years of Serving the Living and the Deceased 3.66 avg rating — 942 ratings
139. 
Tinseltown: Murder, Morphine, and Madness at the Dawn of Hollywood
by:
William J. Mann
3.63 avg rating — 5,109 ratings 139. 
Holes in the Head: The Art and Archaeology of Trepanation in Ancient Peru (Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian Art and Archaeology Studies Series)
by:
John W. Verano
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 
142. 
Man-Eater: The Life and Legend of an American Cannibal
by:
Harold Schechter
3.58 avg rating — 1,684 ratings 144. 
The Affair of the Poisons: Murder, Infanticide, and Satanism at the Court of Louis XIV
by:
Anne Somerset
3.69 avg rating — 773 ratings 145. 
Savage Harvest: A Tale of Cannibals, Colonialism, and Michael Rockefeller's Tragic Quest for Primitive Art
by:
Carl Hoffman
3.66 avg rating — 5,382 ratings 
148. 
TIME-LIFE Mysteries of the Criminal Mind: The Secrets Behind the World's Most Notorious Crimes
by:
LIFE
3.82 avg rating — 152 ratings 148. 
The Best Land Under Heaven: The Donner Party in the Age of Manifest Destiny
by:
Michael Wallis
4.23 avg rating — 2,603 ratings 150. 
The Dalton Brothers: And Their Astounding Career of Crime
by:
An Eye Witness
3.18 avg rating — 11 ratings 150. 
Eternal Remains: World Mummification and the Beliefs That Make It Necessary
by:
Ken Jeremiah
4.45 avg rating — 11 ratings 
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154. 
The Mummy Congress: Science, Obsession, and the Everlasting Dead
by:
Heather Pringle
4.10 avg rating — 866 ratings 155. 
American Eve: Evelyn Nesbit, Stanford White, the Birth of the "It" Girl and the Crime of the Century
by:
Paula Uruburu
3.74 avg rating — 3,061 ratings 155. 
Mummies: The Newest, Coolest, and Creepiest from Around the World
by:
Shelley Tanaka
3.97 avg rating — 32 ratings 157. 
Blood Royal: A True Tale of Crime and Detection in Medieval Paris
by:
Eric Jager
3.82 avg rating — 1,690 ratings 
159. 
Mummies: Dried, Tanned, Sealed, Drained, Frozen, Embalmed, Stuffed, Wrapped, and Smoked...and We're Dead Serious 3.81 avg rating — 37 ratings
161. 
Stuck Up!: 100 Objects Inserted and Ingested in Places They Shouldn’t Be
by:
Rich E. Dreben
3.39 avg rating — 337 ratings 161. 
Stirring the Mud: On Swamps, Bogs, and Human Imagination
by:
Barbara Hurd
4.12 avg rating — 194 ratings 
163. 
No Go, the Bogeyman: Scaring, Lulling, and Making Mock
by:
Marina Warner
4.03 avg rating — 257 ratings 
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BOY CAPT BEING TRUE (The Garland library of narratives of North American Indian captivities)
by:
Washburn
4.18 avg rating — 137 ratings 
169. 
Confessions of an Illuminati, Volume III: Espionage, Templars and Satanism in the Shadows of the Vatican (3)
by:
Leo Lyon Zagami
3.91 avg rating — 11 ratings 169. 
Passage of Darkness: The Ethnobiology of the Haitian Zombie
by:
Wade Davis
4.18 avg rating — 188 ratings 171. 
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Massacre on the Merrimack: Hannah Duston's Captivity and Revenge in Colonial America
by:
Jay Atkinson
3.75 avg rating — 422 ratings 173. 
Death as a Living: Investigating Murder in the American Heartland
by:
Doyle Burke
4.45 avg rating — 258 ratings 
176. 
My Captivity: A Pioneer Woman's Story of Her Life Among the Sioux
by:
Fanny Kelly
3.88 avg rating — 1,855 ratings 176. 
I Fought the Law: The Life and Strange Death of Bobby Fuller
by:
Randell Fuller
3.33 avg rating — 70 ratings 178. 
18 Tiny Deaths: The Untold Story of Frances Glessner Lee and the Invention of Modern Forensics
by:
Bruce Goldfarb
3.69 avg rating — 3,762 ratings 
183. 
Memento Mori: What the Romans Can Tell Us About Old Age Death
by:
Peter V. Jones
3.17 avg rating — 327 ratings 184. 
Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival
by:
Joe Simpson
4.23 avg rating — 63,069 ratings 184. 
Right of Way: Race, Class, and the Silent Epidemic of Pedestrian Deaths in America
by:
Angie Schmitt
4.37 avg rating — 584 ratings 186. 
The Burdens of Sister Margaret: Inside a Seventeenth-Century Convent
by:
Craig Harline
3.86 avg rating — 50 ratings 186. 
Plagued: Pandemics from the Black Death to Covid-19 and Beyond
by:
John Froude
3.94 avg rating — 125 ratings 188. 
Raising Hell: A Concise History of the Black Arts - and Those Who Dared to Practice Them
by:
Robert Masello
3.51 avg rating — 160 ratings 188. 
The Book of Extraordinary Deaths: True Accounts of Ill-Fated Lives
by:
Cecilia Ruiz
3.88 avg rating — 523 ratings 190. 
The Witches of Warboys: An Extraordinary Story of Sorcery, Sadism and Satanic Possession
by:
Philip C. Almond
3.62 avg rating — 40 ratings 190. 
Black Death at the Golden Gate: The Race to Save America from the Bubonic Plague
by:
David K. Randall
4.06 avg rating — 1,862 ratings 192. 
Book of Lies: The Disinformation Guide to Magick and the Occult
by:
Richard Metzger
4.05 avg rating — 1,806 ratings 
194. 
Lord of Strange Deaths: The Fiendish World of Sax Rohmer
by:
Phil Baker
3.73 avg rating — 11 ratings 196. 
Babylon's Banksters: The Alchemy of Deep Physics, High Finance and Ancient Religion really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 234 ratings
198. 
The Secret Side of History; Mystery Babylon and the New World Order
by:
Dee Zahner
1.50 avg rating — 2 ratings 
199. 
Medieval Bodies: Life and Death in the Middle Ages
by:
Jack Hartnell
3.93 avg rating — 2,489 ratings