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The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective
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Kate Summerscale
3.51 avg rating — 24,677 ratings 4. 
Conspiracy Encyclopedia: The Encyclopedia of Conspiracy Theories
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Thom Burnett
3.62 avg rating — 37 ratings 
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The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
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Simon Winchester
3.84 avg rating — 120,606 ratings 7. 
The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy: The Shocking Inside Story
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Ann Rule
4.14 avg rating — 109,005 ratings 
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The Affair of the Poisons: Murder, Infanticide, and Satanism at the Court of Louis XIV
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Anne Somerset
3.69 avg rating — 773 ratings 
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The Serpent and the Rainbow: A Harvard Scientist's Astonishing Journey into the Secret Societies of Haitian Voodoo, Zombis, and Magic
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Wade Davis
3.92 avg rating — 5,278 ratings 12. 
Tracking the Chupacabra: The Vampire Beast in Fact, Fiction, and Folklore
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Benjamin Radford
3.85 avg rating — 109 ratings 
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Giants, Monsters, and Dragons: An Encyclopedia of Folklore, Legend, and Myth
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Carol Rose
4.15 avg rating — 432 ratings 
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Cryptozoology A to Z: The Encyclopedia of Loch Monsters, Sasquatch, Chupacabras & Other Authentic Mysteries of Nature
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Loren Coleman
3.97 avg rating — 1,100 ratings 20. 
A Lycanthropy Reader: Werewolves in Western Culture really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 144 ratings
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The Devil and Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness, and Obsession
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David Grann
3.79 avg rating — 9,865 ratings 22. 
Abominable Science! Origins of the Yeti, Nessie, and Other Famous Cryptids
by:
Daniel Loxton
3.80 avg rating — 584 ratings 
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The Domestic Life of the Jersey Devil: or, BeBop's Miscellany
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Bill Sprouse
4.22 avg rating — 51 ratings 
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American Monsters: A History of Monster Lore, Legends, and Sightings in America
by:
Linda S. Godfrey
3.48 avg rating — 923 ratings 23. 
Still Living?: Yeti, Sasquatch and the Neanderthal Enigma
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Myra Shackley
3.87 avg rating — 23 ratings 23. 
Raven: The Untold Story of the Rev. Jim Jones and His People
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Tim Reiterman
4.32 avg rating — 2,616 ratings 
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The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival
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John Vaillant
4.07 avg rating — 18,587 ratings 23. 
A Hunger to Kill: A Serial Killer, a Determined Detective, and the Quest for a Confession That Changed a Small Town Forever
by:
Kim Mager
3.80 avg rating — 1,530 ratings 
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On Monsters: An Unnatural History of Our Worst Fears
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Stephen T. Asma
3.67 avg rating — 964 ratings 
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Investigating the Unexplained: Compendium of Mysteries of the Natural World 3.61 avg rating — 31 ratings
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Monsters Among Us: An Exploration of Otherworldly Bigfoots, Wolfmen, Portals, Phantoms, and Odd Phenomena
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Linda S. Godfrey
3.61 avg rating — 645 ratings 
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Murder at Dusk: How US soldier and smiling psychopath Eddie Leonski terrorised wartime Melbourne
by:
Ian W. Shaw
3.89 avg rating — 62 ratings 
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Starvation Heights: A True Story of Murder and Malice in the Woods of the Pacific Northwest
by:
Gregg Olsen
3.68 avg rating — 9,951 ratings 46. 
The Science of Monsters: the Origins of the Creatures We Love to Fear
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Matt Kaplan
3.56 avg rating — 1,371 ratings 46. 
Blood Stain: The True Story of Katherine Knight, the Mother & Abattoir Worker Who Became Australia's Worst Female Killer
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Peter Lalor
3.87 avg rating — 505 ratings 46. 
Last Dance, Last Chance and Other True Cases (Crime Files, #8)
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Ann Rule
4.02 avg rating — 3,158 ratings 
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The Great Orm of Loch Ness: A Practical Inquiry Into the Nature and Habits of Water-Monsters 3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Strange Life a Sourcebook of the Mysteries of Organic Nature, Vol. B-1 it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The Origins of Monsters: Image and Cognition in the First Age of Mechanical Reproduction
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David Wengrow
3.64 avg rating — 45 ratings 55. 
And Never Let Her Go: Thomas Capano: The Deadly Seducer
by:
Ann Rule
4.12 avg rating — 9,037 ratings 
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The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry
by:
Jon Ronson
3.95 avg rating — 155,560 ratings 
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The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime
by:
Judith Flanders
3.41 avg rating — 4,257 ratings 
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The Devil's Gentleman: Privilege, Poison, and the Trial That Ushered in the Twentieth Century
by:
Harold Schechter
3.69 avg rating — 2,022 ratings 75. 
The Dragon and the Disc: An Investigation into the Totally Fantastic 3.73 avg rating — 22 ratings
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The Devil's Dozen: How Cutting-Edge Forensics Took Down 12 Notorious Serial Killers 3.46 avg rating — 719 ratings
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Food for the Dead: On the Trail of New England's Vampires
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Michael E. Bell
3.61 avg rating — 344 ratings 80. 
Whatever Mother Says...: A True Story of a Mother, Madness and Murder
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Wensley Clarkson
3.86 avg rating — 2,809 ratings 82. 
Vampires Are Us: Understanding Our Love Affair with the Immortal Dark Side
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Margot Adler
3.43 avg rating — 86 ratings 
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Banshees, Werewolves, Vampires, and Other Creatures of the Night: Facts, Fictions, and First-Hand Accounts
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Varla Ventura
3.54 avg rating — 157 ratings 85. 
Vampires, Werewolves & Demons: Twentieth Century Reports in the Psychiatric Literature
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Richard Noll
3.71 avg rating — 28 ratings 
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Spirits of New Orleans: Voodoo Curses, Vampire Legends and Cities of the Dead
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Kala Ambrose
3.97 avg rating — 206 ratings 89. 
The Vampire Book: The Encyclopedia of the Undead
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J. Gordon Melton
3.93 avg rating — 3,351 ratings 
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Bigfoot, Yeti, and the Last Neanderthal: A Geneticist's Search for Modern Apemen
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Bryan Sykes
3.95 avg rating — 167 ratings 
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Strange Creatures Seldom Seen: Giant Beavers, Sasquatch, Manipogos, and Other Mystery Animals in Manitoba and Beyond
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John Warms
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Tracking the Man-Beasts: Sasquatch, Vampires, Zombies & More
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Joe Nickell
3.18 avg rating — 79 ratings