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Morbid Curiosities

Author: Paul Gambino

Publisher: Hachette UK

Published: 2023-05-04

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 139961522X

A fascinating insight into the strange world of collectors of the macabre, Morbid Curiosities features 18 unique collections and an extensive interview with each collector, explaining how and why they collect, and showcasing the most remarkable pieces from each collection. The collections include skulls, mummified body parts, taxidermy, occult objects and various carnival, and side-show and criminal ephemera. Detailed captions tell the curious stories behind each object, many of which are being shown outside the private world of their collections for the first time. Morbid Curiosities includes stunning, specially commissioned photography of both the individual objects and the context of how the collector exhibits their work, forming a unique showcase of the bizarre and the intriguing.

Morbid Curiosities

Author: Samuel J.M.M. Alberti

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2011-04-07

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780199584581

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An in-depth study of the variety of collections of human remains in Britain in the long nineteenth century

Morbid Curiosities: An Anthology of Unconventional Horror Stories

Author: AT Writing Workshop & Publication 2019

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2019-04-15

Total Pages: 174

ISBN-13: 0359533469

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Vampires? Werewolves? Ghosts? Not quite. This anthology of horror peels back the veneer of normalcy to uncover the strange and spine-tingling fears lurking behind. Created by the minds of Singapore American School's Advanced Topic Writing Workshop and Publication students, this collection of twenty-five oddly specific horrors will make you look twice at everything from a Barbie doll to a ball of twine.

Morbid Curiosity Cures the Blues

Author: Loren Rhoads

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2009-09-29

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 9781439136454

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For ten years, Morbid Curiosity was a one-of-a-kind underground magazine that gained a devoted following for its celebration of absurd, grotesque, and unusual tales -- all true -- submitted from contributors around the country and across the world. Loren Rhoads, creator and editor of the magazine, has compiled some of her favorite stories from all ten issues in this sometimes shocking, occasionally gruesome, always fascinating anthology. This quirky book is filled with tales from ordinary people -- who just happen to have eccentric, peculiar interests. Ranging from the outrageous (attending a Black Mass, fishing bodies out of San Francisco Bay, making fake snuff films) to the more "mundane" (visiting a torture museum, tracking real vampires through San Francisco), this curiously enjoyable collection of stories, complete with illustrations and informative asides, will entertain and haunt readers long after the final page is turned.

Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine

Author: George Milbry Gould

Publisher:

Published: 1901

Total Pages: 1008

ISBN-13:

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Let's Do

Author: Rebecca Meacham

Publisher: University of North Texas Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 191

ISBN-13: 1574411853

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Winner of the Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction, 2004. In the nine stories of Let's Do, various calamities strike ordinary Midwesterners, who cope with a mixture of good intentions and ineptitude. Balancing humor with painful clarity, author Rebecca Meacham pulls readers into the lives of characters who struggle with--and more often against--change.

The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead

Author: David Shields

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2011-03-03

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 0141961651

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Mesmerized and somewhat unnerved by his 97-year-old father's vitality and optimism, David Shields undertakes an original investigation of our flesh-and-blood existence, our mortal being. Weaving together personal anecdote, biological fact, philosophical doubt, cultural criticism, and the wisdom of an eclectic range of writers and thinkers - from Lucretius to Woody Allen - Shields expertly renders both a hilarious family portrait and a truly resonant meditation on mortality.

Rest in Pieces

Author: Bess Lovejoy

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2013-03-12

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 1451654987

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For some of the most influential figures in history, death marked the start of a new adventure. The famous deceased have been stolen, burned, sold, pickled, frozen, stuffed, impersonated, and even filed away in a lawyer's office. Their fingers, teeth, toes, arms, legs, skulls, hearts, lungs, and nether regions have embarked on voyages that crisscross the globe and stretch the imagination.

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

Author: Mary Roach

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2004-04-27

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 0393324826

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A look inside the world of forensics examines the use of human cadavers in a wide range of endeavors, including research into new surgical procedures, space exploration, and a Tennessee human decay research facility.

A Peculiar Curiosity

Author: Melanie Cossey

Publisher: Fitzroy Books

Published: 2018-10

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781947548008

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An anthropology professor, Duncan Clarke, stumbles upon the travel journal of a Victorian curiosity dealer that describes a victim of a Haitian witch doctor. Clarke's holiday pastime becomes an all-consuming obsession as he seeks to understand the chilling implications of the journal and the horrifying way in which his own life is tied to the past