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Morbid Curiosity Cures the Blues: True Stories of the Unsavory, Unwise, Unorthodox and Unusual from the Magazine "Morbid Curiosity" by Loren Rhoads Publisher Comments For ten years, Morbid Curiosity was a one-of-a-kind underground magazine that gained a devoted following for its celebration of absurd, grotesque, and unusual tales -- all true -- submitted from contributors around the country and across the world. Loren... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Schadenfreude, Baby!: A Delicious Look at the Misfortune of Others (and the Pleasure It Brings Us) by Laura Lee Publisher Comments The term schadenfreude—originally a German word translated as “pleasure taken in someone else’s misfortune”—has become entrenched in popular culture. There have been references to it everywhere from The West Wing to The... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Lost: Lost and Found Pet Posters from Around the World by Ian Phillips Staff Pick If you occasionally take pleasures in the innocent misfortune of others, this one is for you. Each page tells the story of desperation as owners resort to the one hope that someone will find and return their precious pets. If it weren't for lost snakes... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Getting Even: The Complete Book of Dirty Tricks by George Hayduke Synopsis Don't get mad--get even! This is a humorous compilation of the most ingenious tricks cooked up by Hayduke and his friends.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Death Becomes Them: Unearthing the Suicides of the Brilliant, the Famous, and the Notorious by Alix Strauss Publisher Comments Kurt Cobain, Anne Sexton, Mark Rothko, Ernest Hemingway, Adolf Hitler . . . all famous, some rich and powerful, some beloved, some abhorred. But when life and circumstance got to be too much, each headed for the exit door. Sigmund Freud overdosed on... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Morbid Curiosity: The Disturbing Demises of the Famous and Infamous by Alan W. Petrucelli Publisher Comments A noted celebrity journalist recounts the disturbing, unexpected, appalling, and occasionally humorous details of the deaths of the rich and famous, including historical figures like Attila the Hun and celebrities like Anna Nicole Smith. Original.... (read more) Your price: $11.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Get Even 2: More Dirty Tricks from the Master of Revenge by George Hayduke Publisher Comments The outrageous sequel to the original, Get Even 2 presents a wide range of all-new dirty tricks people pull to get even with Big Business bums, footloose spouses, lousy landlords -- ripoffs of all types. This inspiring volume is a product of public... (read more) List Price $21.50 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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This Will Kill You: A Guide to the Ways in Which We Go by H P Newquist Staff Pick We all have to check out sometime, but some of us die more spectacularly than others. HP Newquist and Rich Maloof researched the painful particulars of what it's like to perish from any number of unfortunate events, including a shark attack, burning at... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Unlucky Stiffs: New Tales of the Weirdly Departed by Cynthia Ceilan Publisher Comments Too weird to be true? Not at all. Collecting stories about weird deaths is a decidedly sick hobby. “Yet, strangely life-affirming,” says Cynthia Ceilán, the author of Unlucky Stiffs. “Nothing makes you want to embrace the... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Buried Alive: The Terrifying History of Our Most Primal Fear by Jan Bondeson Publisher Comments Readers of Edgar Allan Poe's tales-just think of The Premature Burial-may comfort themselves with the notion that Poe must have exaggerated: surely people of the 1800s could not have been at risk of being buried alive? But such stories filled medical... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Tales of Woe by John Reed Publisher Comments True stories of totally undeserved suffering. Spectacularly depressing. Nobody gets their just desserts. Crushing defeats. No happy endings. Abject misery. Pointless, endless grief. Sin, suffering, redemption. That’s the movie... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $13.50 Used - Hardcover
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Death Becomes Them: Unearthing the Suicides of the Brilliant, the Famous, and the Notorious by Alix Strauss Publisher Comments Takes a provocative cultural and historical look at the icons who have committed suicide, from Virginia Woolf to Kurt Cobain, Diane Arbus to Sigmund Freud, Vincent van Gogh to Hunter S. Thompson, and more. Original. 30,000 first printing.... (read more) Your price: $10.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Portable Obituary: How the Famous, Rich, and Powerful Really Died by Michael Largo Publisher Comments No matter what your station in society, everybody has to go sometime. Even the wealthy, powerful, and world-renowned must ultimately meet their Maker—though some have departed this life more ignobly than they might have wished. From Mozart to rock... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Death: A Life by George Pendle Publisher Comments The shocking new memoir from Death At last, the mysterious, feared, and misunderstood being known only as “Death” talks frankly and unforgettably about his infinitely awful existence. Chronicling his abusive childhood, his near-fatal... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Crime by Alix Lambert Publisher Comments How much do criminal acts and their representation in cinema, literature and music really have in common? Is the execution of crime in everyday life as appealing or as inspired as creative artists have made it seem since, say, Arthur Conan Doyle's... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $22.00 Used - Hardcover
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Morbid Curiosity: The Disturbing Demises of the Famous and Infamous by Alan W Petrucelli Publisher Comments "It's shocking and sinful, and I couldn't put it down!" -Joan Rivers The strange, startling, and utterly fascinating stories behind the world's most notorious celebrity deaths. Was Jayne Mansfield really decapitated? Which manly appendage of Napoleon's... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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What a Way to Go: Fabulous Funerals of the Famous and Infamous by Adele Q Brown Publisher Comments A&E Biography meets Tales from the Crypt in this fun but respectful survey of the amazing lives and astonishing funerals of two dozen twentieth-century icons from politics, art, and pop culture. In more than 50 rare photographs and thoroughly researched... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Apocalypse How: Making the End Times the Best of Times by Rob Kutner Publisher Comments People have been predicting the end of the world since...well, the beginning of it. Oh, the form it takes may vary-firestorm, earthquake, plague, new ice age, alien invasion, nuclear cloud, or the rise of our machines-but everyone who survives will be... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Happy Together New York & the Other World by Jan Christiaa Braun Publisher Comments Rambling through New York one day, Dutch photographer Jan Christiaan Braun ended up at a Queens cemetery, intending to find a good place to make a picture of the American flag. Instead, his attention was caught by a festively adorned gravestone with a... (read more) Your price: $6.95 Sale - Hardcover
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The Afterlife Handbook: A Travel Guide to Your Final Destination by Michael Powell Publisher Comments Have a Safe Journey! You want to discover the afterlife. The place that's everywhere and nowhere, full of bliss or excruciating pain, and totally beyond our powers of comprehension. Its nature and very existence has been the object of wars, art... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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