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How Morbidly Curious Are You?

Have an interest in the macabre? Satisfy your morbid curiosity with one of these!

Harris County Public Library

22 items

  • Over My Dead Body

    Unearthing the Hidden History of America's Cemeteries

    Melville, Greg,
    BookNew York : Abrams Press, 2022. — 306.9 Mel
  • Stiff

    the Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

    Roach, Mary,
    BookNew York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., [2021] — 611 Roa
  • A Taste for Poison

    Eleven Deadly Molecules and the Killers Who Used Them

    Bradbury, Neil,
    BookNew York, NY : St. Martin's Press, 2022. — 615.9 Bra
  • All the Living and the Dead

    From Embalmers to Executioners, An Exploration of the People Who Have Made Death Their Life's Work

    Campbell, Hayley,
    BookNew York : St. Martin's Press, 2022. — 363.75 Cam
  • How to Survive History

    How to Outrun a Tyrannosaurus, Escape Pompeii, Get Off the Titanic, and Survive the Rest of History's Deadliest Catastrophes

    Cassidy, Cody,
    Book[New York, NY] : Penguin Books, [2023] — 904 Cas
  • Gory Details

    Adventures From the Dark Side of Science

    Engelhaupt, Erika,
    BookWashington, DC : National Geographic Partners, LLC, [2020] — 500 Eng
  • The United States of Cryptids

    a Tour of American Myths and Monsters

    Ocker, J. W.
    BookPhiladelphia : Quirk Books, [2022] — 001.944 Ock
  • Cannibalism

    a Perfectly Natural History

    Schutt, Bill
    BookChapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2017. — 394.9 Sch
  • Cults

    Inside the World's Most Notorious Groups and Understanding the People Who Joined Them

    Cutler, Max
    BookNew York, NY : Gallery Books, 2022. — 364.15 Cut
  • The Trauma Cleaner

    One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster

    Krasnostein, Sarah
    BookNew York : St. Martin's Press, 2018. — B Pankhu
  • Ghostland

    An American History in Haunted Places

    Dickey, Colin,
    BookNew York, New York : Penguin Books, 2017. — 133.10973 Dic
  • The Radium Girls

    Young Readers' Edition: The Scary but True Story of the Poison that Made People Glow in the Dark

    Moore, Kate
    eBookSourcebooks, 2020
  • The Borden Murders

    Lizzie Borden & the Trial of the Century

    Miller, Sarah, 1979-
    BookNew York : Schwartz & Wade Books, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, [2016] — 345.744 Mil
  • Bad Girls

    Sirens, Jezebels, Murderesses, Thieves, & Other Female Villains

    Yolen, Jane
    BookWatertown, MA : Charlesbridge, 2013. — 364.374 Yol
  • Hanged!

    Mary Surratt & the Plot to Assassinate Abraham Lincoln

    Miller, Sarah, 1979-
    BookNew York : Random House Studio, [2022] — 973.709 Mil
  • An Outbreak of Witchcraft

    a Graphic Novel of the Salem Witch Trials

    Noyes, Deborah,
    Graphic NovelNew York : LB Ink/Little, Brown and Company, 2024. — Noyes
  • The Family Romanov

    Murder, Rebellion & the Fall of Imperial Russia

    Fleming, Candace
    BookNew York : Schwartz & Wade Books, [2014] — 947.083 Fle
  • Murder Among Friends

    How Leopold and Loeb Tried to Commit the Perfect Crime

    Fleming, Candace
    BookNew York, NY : Anne Schwartz Books, [2022] — 364.152 Fle
  • BookMankato, Minn. : Compass Point Books, c2011. — 364.152 Hau