Recs if you like Curious Coffins and Riveting Rituals: Death Practices Around the World...

Death will unfailingly find every person to have ever lived, yet is treated as a taboo topic in some cultures, causing extreme, pervasive anxiety. This nonfiction list aims to broaden understanding of this inevitability, both to hopefully negate some of the anxiety as well as satisfy some of our more morbid curiosities. It also aims to show that death is another, still useful, stage in the life cycle, aiding those that remain by helping to advance medicine, solve crimes, or understand art.

Nonfiction books to explore your morbid curiosity. Topics include death, pathogens, the paranormal, and more.

Check out my list horror nonfiction for books about horror media.

For when you want something more ominous, macabre, or mysterious in taste that also centers on a deeply specific subject. Ranging from the occult to the supernatural to just plain weird and interesting. Expand your knowledge by reading these narrow glimpses into the past.

how we keep them, how they happen, how they taste, how we think about them, and everything else in-between

and this list is not books about taxes.

non-fic about the end and after. taking any suggestions, as always!

no? well, now you do Books about [niche subject] or [not so niche subject] that spam from the mysterious and the macabre to the weird and unsettling to just interesting and fun

Remember you must die. Demystify the taboo surrounding mortality and promote ‘death positivity’. Learn to value life and living intentionally.

Books about one very specific thing throughout history (feel free to leave recs in the comments :) )

Stories that all grave keepers should have on hand