Recs if you like The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist: A True Story of Injustice in the American South...

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.

Bundy, Dahmer, Gacy, Manson, and the rest can step aside!! These stories of violent crime are from off the beaten path a bit, stories you may not have heard before even if you binge true crime podcasts and docs like it's your job. I've started with ones I've read already but that will probably change soon so feel free to recommend! Any true stories about violent criminals, detectives and/or investigators, victims, or the criminal justice system in general are fair game ☺️

To find horror it seems we need look no further than our fellow human beings. All these true crime books have themes ranging from the detriment of patriarchal norms in institutions and family dynamics, systemic racism, corporate and personal greed, homophobia, failures in the justice system and/or stigma of mental health and substance abuse treatment.

Black perspective

Books about true crime