I am a dark humour author who has a healthy interest in the morbid/macabre. This week’s post is dedicated to 8 morbid books. I have added pithy comments/fictitious commentary below each.
Necromance: Intimate Portrayals of Death
Proud winner of worst book cover in the morbid category.
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
The cover is a bit like the health warning images on cigarette packets. It leaves no illusion as to the extreme morbidity of the book’s contents.
Fancy Coffins to Make Yourself
‘What’s that leaning against your living room wall?’
‘It’s a fancy DIY coffin.’
‘Who is it for?’
‘Me.’
‘But you’re not dead.’
‘That’s the thing with DIY coffins, you can’t assemble them post-mortem.’
Working Stiff
Two Years, 262 Bodies — that is a lot of bodies for one medical examiner. But the upside is it is probably considerably less than the living people they would have had to deal with in the same time period in a normal job.
Reusing Old Graves
Dig ’em up, turf ’em out, insert new occupant…
Mortician Diaries
Tuesday: Three Weetabix and a cup of tea for breakfast. It took like so long to get to work this morning, the traffic was so slow, I thought I would never get there. Boss was waiting. Normally she like taps her watch and makes a facetious comment about my timekeeping, but today she just smiled, and I was like what is going on here? Then she led me through to the morgue. I smelt it before I saw it — it was found in a bath, been in there for days, bloated with those blue veins. It so grossed me out!
Do-It-Yourself Funerals And Cremations For Newbies
Burying yourself whilst reading your own eulogy, now that’s impressive. But before you get too excited, this is a fictitious title.
Do it Yourself Caskets and Coffins
Yet another DIY coffin title. Erotica better watch out, there’s a new genre in town.
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