Morbid Bookshelf Reading is Fundamental This is a list of some of my favorite books. You can find some of them at Amazon.com, perhaps the internet's greatest bookstore. While many of them are no longer available Amazon can give you more info on them and perhaps even find them for you if you are interested in them. To see if the book is available or for more information just click on the title and it will take you there.   Enjoy my reading list....

Death in Paradise : An Illustrated History of the Los Angeles County Department of Coroner -- by Tony Blanche

The Hour of Our Death---by Phillippe Aries

Encyclopia of Death---Robert Kastenbaum

After the Funeral : The Posthumous Adventures of Famous Corpses by Edwin Murphy

Tombstones : 75 Famous People and Their Final Resting Places by Gregg Felsen

Final Curtain : Eternal Resting Places of Hundreds of Stars, Celebrities, Moguls, Misers & Misfits by Margaret Burk

Final Curtain : Deaths of Noted Movie and Television Personalities, 1912-1998 by Everett Grant Jarvis

The Tombstone Tourist : Musicians by Scott Stanton

Permanent Italians : An Illustrated Guide to the Cemeteries of Italy (The Permanent Series) by Judi Culbertson

Permanent Parisians : An Illustrated Guide to the Cemeteries of Paris by Judi Culbertson

Permanent Londoners : An Illustrated Guide to the Cemeteries of London by Judi Culbertson

Permanent New Yorkers : A Biographical Guide to the Cemeteries of New York by Judi Culbertson

New Orleans Cemeteries : Life in the Cities of the Dead by Robert Florence

Pleasure Taken---by Carol Mavor

Tales Mummies Tell---Patricia Lauber

Looking at Death---Barbara Norfleet

The Interrupted Life---The Museum of Contemporary Art

Death Scenes---edited by Sean Tejaratchi, text by Kathryn Dunn

Wisconsin Deathtrip---Michael Lesy

Evidence---Luc Sante

How We Die: Reflections on Life’s Final Chapter---by Sherwin B. Nuland

Curious Punishments of Bygone Days---by Alice Morse Earle

Dark Angels---edited by Pam Keesey

Daughters of Darkness---edited by Pam Keesey

The Hollywood Celebrity Death Book---by James Robert Parish

Death Certificates of the Rich and Famous : A Guide to the Deaths of Celebrities by Gerard H. Reinert

The Definitive Guide to Underground Humor : Quaint Quotes About Death, Funny Funeral Home Stories and Hilarious Headstone Epitaphs by Edward Bergin

They Went That-A-Way : How the Famous, the Infamous, and the Great Died by Malcolm Forbes

Visions of Poe---by Simon Marsden

Nightmares in the Sky---by Stephen King and f-stop Fitzgerald

Pilars of the Almighty---by Ken Follett and f-stop Fitgerald

The Otherside---by Nan Goldin

SECURE THE SHADOW: Death and Photography in America---by Jay Ruby

Photographs---by Jeffery Silverthorne

Silent Cities---by Jackson and Vergara

Haunter of Ruins by Clarence John Laughlin

Sleeping Beauty - A History of Memorial Phot... ---by Stanely B. Burns MD

Harms Way---edited by Joel-Peter Witkin

40 Photographs---by Joel-Peter Witkin

Gods of Earth and Heaven---by Joel-Peter Witkin

Beautiful Death---by David Robertson/Dean Koontz

Graven Images Graphic Motifs of the Jewish Gravestone---by Arnold Schwartzman

Grotesque: Natural Historical & Formaldehyde Photography--- by Fragment Books

Dead and Buried?---by Norman Adams

Enbalming:History, Theory, and Practise---by Mayer (textbook)

The Search for Dracula: the history of dracula & vampires--- by Raymond T. McNally

Dracula, Prince of Many Faces:his life and times---by Raymond T. McNally

Joel-Peter Witkin---by Germano Celant

Cindy Sherman---by Rosalind Krauss

The X-files Book of the Unexpalined---by Jane Goldman

Rack,Rope, and Red-hot Pincers---by Geoffery Abbott

Dark Justice: A History of Punishment and Torture---by Karen Farrington

Dead Men do Tell Tales---by William R. Maples, PhD

Grave Matters : A Lively History of Death Around the World by Nigel Barley

Corpses, Coffins and Crypts : A History of Burial by Penny Colman

Old Burial Grounds of New Jersey : A Guide by Janice Kohl Sarapin

Virginia Cemeteries : A Guide to Resources by Anne M. Hogg

Freaks:Myths & Images of the Secret Self---by Leslie Fiedler

Freaks: We Who Are Not As Others .---by Daniel P. Mannix

A Morning's Work : Medical Photographs from the Burns Archive & Collection, 1843-1939 by Stanley Burns

Special Cases : Natural Anomalies and Historical Monsters by Rosamond Wolff Purcell

Freakery : Cultural Spectacles of the Extraordinary Body by Rosemarie Garland Thomson

Freak Show : Presenting Human Oddities for Amusement and Profit by Robert Bogdan

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