Welcome to the Archives bonus episodes!

In 2024, I launched this podcast to delve deeper into our book club's nonfiction selections by engaging directly with the authors—the experts behind these compelling works.

Over the years, our club has explored some exceptional books, and today, I got the chance to speak with Bruce Goldfarb on his book, "18 Tiny Deaths: The Untold Story of the Woman Who Invented Modern Forensics" th...

Our February 2025 pick was “Tremors in the Blood: Murder, Obsession, and the Birth of the Lie Detector" by Amit Katwala!

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Our January 2025 pick was “All That Is Wicked: A Gilded-Age Story of Murder and the Race to Decode the Criminal Mind" by the wonderful Kate Winkler Dawson.

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Welcome friends to SEASON 2!

With 2024 now [almost] behind us, it's time to prepare for our 2025 reading year and companion podcast!

Here is our 2025 lineup:

January "All That Is Wicked: A Gilded-Age Story of Murder and the Race to Decode the Criminal Mind" by Kate Wrinkler Dawson

February "Tremors in the Blood: Murder, Obsession, and the Birth of the Lie Detector" by Amit Katwala

March "Gory...

Our November book was Boys Enter the House: The Victims of John Wayne Gacy and the Lives They Left Behind by David Nelson

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As investigators brought out the bagged remains of several dozen young men from a small Chicago ranch home and paraded them in front of a crowd of TV reporters and spectators, attention quickly turned to the owner of the house. John Gacy was an upstandi...

Our October book is Goodbye Hello: Processing Grief and Understanding Death through the Paranormal by Adam Berry.  

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From paranormal investigator and host of Kindred Spirits Adam Berry comes Goodbye Hello, which blends supernatural and psychological research to explore the paranormal and afterlife to try and help answer big questions about the end.

Death affects us all—not j...

Our September pick for The Morbidly Curious Book Club was "Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History" by Bill Schutt.

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For centuries scientists have written off cannibalism as a bizarre phenomenon with little biological significance. Its presence in nature was dismissed as a desperate response to starvation or other life-threatening circumstances, and few spent time...

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“It might come as a surprise to know that, for millennia, people all over the world have actively cultivated a relationship with death, as an important part of both living and dying well. Shamans and priests acted as psychopomps—literally, soul guides—to help people move through the death process. People consulted ‘books of the dead,’ guides to preparing for a good death ...

Our August pick for The Morbidly Curious Book Club was "Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America's Cemeteries" by Greg Melville.

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Journalist Greg Melville’s Over My Dead Body is an “astonishing . . . fascinating . . . powerful” (New York Times Book Review) tour through the history of US cemeteries that explores how, where, and why we bury our ...

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Check out Loren's website here: https://lorenrhoads.com/

About Loren: Fiction Author: Loren Rhoads is the author of In the Wake of the Templars, a space opera trilogy. She’s co-author (with Brian Thomas) of the As Above, So Below books, a dark urban fantasy duet about a succubus and her angel. Her short stories have appeared in Best New Horror, Strange California, Frig...

Our July pick for The Morbidly Curious Book Club was "A Light in the Dark: Surviving More Than Ted Bundy" by Kathly Kleiner Rubin and Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi.

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About the book: "In January 1978, I slept in my bed at the Chi Omega sorority house at Florida State University as Ted Bundy stalked nearby. He grabbed an oak log from a stack of firewood, slipped through...

Welcome to the Archives bonus episodes!

In 2024, I launched this podcast to delve deeper into our book club's nonfiction selections by engaging directly with the authors—the experts behind these compelling works. Over the years, our club has explored some exceptional books, and today, I am thrilled to spotlight one of our most acclaimed reads: The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis by Maria...

Our June pick for The Morbidly Curious Book Club Was "The Day I Die: The Untold Story of Assisted Dying in America" by Anita Hannig.

"The Day I Die is a major work of nonfiction that tackles the one issue we'll all eventually come to face-our final days, hours, and minutes. With clarity and empathy, award-winning anthropologist Anita Hannig uncovers the stigma against the practice of assisted dying, untangles the leg...

I had the opportunity to chat with Kristel and Helen Leonard, both featured in our May book "Without a Prayer" by Susan Ashline. Kristel is the sister of Lucas Leonard, who was murdered at the Word of Life [Cult]. This is an incredibly special episode, I'm so glad I get to share it with you!

Relevant links:

https://www.facebook.com/AuthorSusanAshline

https://lukesthunder.blogspot.com/

https://www.icsahome.com...

Our May pick for The Morbidly Curious Book Club -- "Without a Prayer" by Susan Ashline

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Teenager Lucas Leonard made shocking admissions in front of the altar—he’d practiced witchcraft and conspired to murder his parents, among other horrific crimes. The confessions earned him a brutal beating by a gang of angry church members, including his p...

Our April pick for The Morbidly Curious Book Club -- "Data Baby" by Susannah Breslin

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What if your parents turn you into a human lab rat when you’re a child? Will that change the story of your life? Will that change who you are?   When Susannah Breslin is a toddler, her parents enroll her in an exclusive laboratory preschool at the...

UPDATE: Harvard Removes Human Skin Binding

with comment from the author of Dark Archives, Megan Rosenbloom.

Thank you, thank you, for all the messages you guys sent me, and the posts you’ve tagged me in. A happy morbidly curious friend over here!

I spoke with author Megan Rosenbloom who wrote the book “Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin” (my book club’s ...

Our March pick for The Morbidly Curious Book Club -- "Pathogenesis" with author Jonathan Kennedy Join the Morbidly Curious Book Club Today: themorbidlycuriousbookclub.com

“In medicine, pathogenesis refers to the origins and development (genesis) of a disease (pathos), with a particular focus on the way that pathogens infect our cells and the effect this has on our bodies. In the pages that follow, we will explore ...

"Lay Them to Rest" with author Laurah Norton

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“This had been the thing that bothered me most from day one: Doe cases got the least coverage, even though they were the ones that needed it most. So, I filed a fresh batch of FOIAs on the unidentified dead, the ones whose case numbers I'd been tracking in NamUs and whose nicknames were set to ...