Dark academia nonfiction
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The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
by:
Simon Winchester
3.84 avg rating — 120,609 ratings 1. 
Narratives and Rituals of the Nightmare Hag in Scandinavian Folk Belief it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Before Freud: Hysteria and Hypnosis in Later Nineteenth-Century Psychiatric Cases
by:
Lilian R. Furst
4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings 5. 
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
by:
Dava Sobel
3.99 avg rating — 75,029 ratings 5. 
Willful Submission: Sado-Erotics and Heavenly Marriage in Victorian Religious Poetry (Victorian Literature and Culture Series)
by:
Amanda Paxton
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating 
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DeMystifying the Devotee: explaining the source of "amputee attraction"
by:
Grant C. Riddle
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 9. 
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
by:
Erik Larson
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 739,855 ratings 9. 
Visualizing Sensuous Suffering and Affective Pain in Early Modern Europe and the Spanish Americas
by:
Graham Heather
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 
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Amelia Lost: The Life and Disappearance of Amelia Earhart
by:
Candace Fleming
3.82 avg rating — 8,131 ratings 13. 
Degeneration, decadence and disease in the Russian fin de siècle: Neurasthenia in the life and work of Leonid Andreev (Durham Modern Languages Series) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Now It Can Be Told: The Story Of The Manhattan Project
by:
Leslie R. Groves
4.18 avg rating — 451 ratings 15. 
Monstrous Births and Visual Culture in Sixteenth-Century Germany
by:
Jennifer Spinks
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 
17. 
Antisemitic Hate Signs in Hebrew Illuminated Manuscripts from Medieval Germany
by:
Ruth Mellinkoff
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 
19. 
The Iconography of the Mouth of Hell: Eighth Century Britain to the Fifteenth Century
by:
Gary D. Schmidt
4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings 
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Filicide: The Murder, Humiliation, Mutilation, Denigration, and Abandonment of Children by Parents 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Terrible Beauty: Yeats, Joyce, Ireland, and the Myth of the Devouring Female
by:
Patrick J. Keane
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 
25. 
The Way Down and Out: The Occult in Symbolist Literature
by:
John Senior
4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings 
27. 
Dark Enlightenment: The Historical, Sociological, and Discursive Contexts of Contemporary Esoteric Magic (Aries Book Series, 18)
by:
Kennet Granholm
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings 
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The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome
by:
Susan Wise Bauer
4.11 avg rating — 6,408 ratings 31. 
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Gertrude Bell: Queen of the Desert, Shaper of Nations
by:
Georgina Howell
3.97 avg rating — 3,475 ratings 33. 
Images of The Apocalypse in African American Blues and Spirituals: Destruction in this Land 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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UNSUITABLE FOR LADIES: An Anthology of Women Travellers
by:
Jane Robinson
3.80 avg rating — 183 ratings 35. 
Caring and Killing: Nursing and Psychiatric Practice in Germany, 1931-1943 (Pflegewissenschaft Un Pflegebildung, 7)
by:
Thomas Foth
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 
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The Dark Side of Knowledge: Histories of Ignorance, 1400 to 1800 (Intersections: Interdisciplinary Studies in Early Modern Culture, 46)
by:
Cornel Zwierlein
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating 39. 
Ladies of the Field: Early Women Archaeologists and Their Search for Adventure
by:
Amanda Adams
3.74 avg rating — 207 ratings 39. 
Shakespeare Madness & Music: Scoring Insanity in Cinematic Adaptations 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Crime in Verse: The Poetics of Murder in the Victorian Era
by:
Ellen L. O'Brien
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating 43. 
The Dangerous Hour: The Lore of Crisis and Mystery in Rural Greece
by:
Richard Blum
4.50 avg rating — 12 ratings 44. 
A Cruel Theatre of Self-Immolations: Contemporary Suicide Protests by Fire and Their Resonances in Culture it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Conditional Love: Parents' Attitudes Toward Handicapped Children
by:
Meira Weiss
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 47. 
The Tainted "Gift": The Disease Method of Frontier Expansion it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Unknowing Fanaticism: Reformation Literatures of Self-Annihilation
by:
Ross Lerner
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 49. 
Haunted Empire: Gothic and the Russian Imperial Uncanny (NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies)
by:
Valeria Sobol
3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings 50. 
The Villanelle: The Evolution of a Poetic Form
by:
Ron McFarland
it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating 51. 
The Aesthetics of Darkness: A Study of Hellenistic Romanticism in Apollonius, Lycophron and Nicander
by:
Evina Sistakou
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings