Scream with Me: Horror Films and the Rise of American Feminism (1968-1980)

Eleanor Johnson

Gory Details: Adventures from the Dark Side of Science

Erika Engelhaupt

The Circus Fire: A True Story of an American Tragedy

Stewart O'Nan

The Field Guide: The Art, History and Philosophy of Crop Circle Making (Strange Attractor Press)

Robert Irving

Lost Continents (Dover Occult)

L. Sprague de Camp

The Darkest Web: Drugs, Death and Destroyed Lives... The Inside Story of the Internet's Evil Twin

Eileen Ormsby

Communion: A True Story

Whitley Strieber

Satan’s Silence: Ritual Abuse and the Making of a Modern American Witch Hunt

Debbie Nathan

Beast: Werewolves, Serial Killers, and Man-Eaters: The Mystery of the Monsters of the Gévaudan

S.R. Schwalb

Killer Show: The Station Nightclub Fire, America's Deadliest Rock Concert

John Barylick

The World Without Us

Alan Weisman

The Demon in the Freezer: A True Story

Richard Preston

Darkly: Blackness and America’s Gothic Soul

Leila Taylor

The Inheritor's Powder: A Tale of Arsenic, Murder, and the New Forensic Science

Sandra Hempel

Morbid Curiosities: Collections of the Uncommon and the Bizarre (Skulls, Mummified Body Parts, Taxidermy and more, remarkable, curious, macabre collections)

Paul Gambino

I Know What I Saw: Modern-Day Encounters with Monsters of New Urban Legend and Ancient Lore

Linda S. Godfrey

Death in the Garden: Poisonous Plants and Their Use Throughout History

Michael Brown

Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus

Bill Wasik

A Time to Dance, a Time to Die: The Extraordinary Story of the Dancing Plague of 1518

John Waller

Ghost Hunters: William James and the Search for Scientific Proof of Life After Death

Deborah Blum

Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction

Lisa Kröger

Cursed Objects: Strange but True Stories of the World's Most Infamous Items

J.W. Ocker

Spontaneous Human Combustion

Jenny Randles

Crypt: Life, Death and Disease in the Middle Ages and Beyond

Alice Roberts

Scurvy: How a Surgeon, a Mariner, and a Gentleman Solved the Greatest Medical Mystery of the Age of Sail

Stephen R. Bown

Empire of Death: A Cultural History of Ossuaries and Charnel Houses

Paul Koudounaris

Playing Dead: A Journey Through the World of Death Fraud

Elizabeth Greenwood

The Bog People: Iron-Age Man Preserved

Peter V. Glob

Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History

Bill Schutt

The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster

Sarah Krasnostein