Recs if you like The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime...

microhistory: the intensive historical investigation of a well defined smaller unit of research (such as an event, community, individual or a settlement); it aspires to "ask large questions in small places"

What can I say? I love bones 🤷‍♀️💀 and def open to suggestions, any genre!

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

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 ☺️

For those who want to learn a thing or two while they're acting out their dark academia dreams.

(read: dark and broody non-fiction that may or may not also be dense and/or academic)

Let's learn a little bit about a lot. Nonfiction in the niche, unique, or not-commonly-discussed topics.

A guide through books.

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