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The Serial Killer Files

Zodiac The Shocking True Story of the Hunt for the Nation's Most Elusive Serial Killer
Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany
Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World
A Short History of Drunkenness
Horror Noire
Live from New York: An Oral History of Saturday Night Live
The wonderful future that never was : flying cars, mail delivery by parachute, and other predictions from the past
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
Columbine
The Man Who Caught the Storm
Nothing to Envy: Real Lives in North Korea
The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York
The Arsenic Century
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Dr. Mèutter's marvels

Wicked Bugs
The New England Grimpendium
The Devil in the White City
Amazing Fantastic Incredible: A Marvelous Memoir
Man-Eater
Venomous
Marvel Comics: The Untold Story
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Get Well Soon
A Season with the Witch
No One Cares About Crazy People
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women
The Liberal Redneck Manifesto: Draggin' Dixie Outta the Dark
Phenomena
An American Sickness
Elephants on Acid: And Other Bizarre Experiments
Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America
Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War
Blood, Sweat, and Pixels: The Triumphant, Turbulent Stories Behind How Video Games Are Made
All That Remains
Seductive Poison: A Jonestown Survivor's Story of Life and Death in the Peoples Temple
Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction
The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
Factfulness
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress
Insane
The Squared Circle : Life, Death and Professional Wrestling
A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea
It's Time to Fight Dirty
Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK
Dopesick
The Future of Capitalism: Facing the New Anxieties
The Comic Book Story of Professional Wrestling: A Hardcore, High-Flying, No-Holds-Barred History of the One True Sport
The Death of Truth
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Strange Frequencies

Mystery Of Exploding Teeth
The Poison Squad
The Sawbones Book: The Hilarious, Horrifying Road to Modern Medicine: Revised and Updated For 2020
Hollywood gothic
Whoever Fights Monsters
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The Frighteners

Falling Upwards
How to be a Victorian
Dead Mountain
Dark Carnival
The First Conspiracy
How I Made a Hundred Movies in Hollywood and Never Lost a Dime
Lady from the Black Lagoon Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick
Stuff Matters
Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation
The Barbary Plague
Titan Sinking: The Decline of the WWF in 1995
NITRO: The Incredible Rise and Inevitable Collapse of Ted Turner's WCW
Brat Pack America: A Love Letter to '80s Teen Movies
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Is Wrestling Fixed? I Didn't Know It Was Broken!

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The Rise & Fall of ECW

In the Mountains of Madness: The Life and Extraordinary Afterlife of H.P. Lovecraft
Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer
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I'm Sorry, I Love You

Death of the Territories: Expansion, Betrayal and the War that Changed Pro Wrestling Forever
So Do You Wear a Cape?
A Christmas Cornucopia
The Death of WCW
Shakespeare's Ear: Dark, Strange, and Fascinating Tales from the World of Theater
Very, Very, Very Dreadful: The Influenza Pandemic of 1918
Jesse Ventura's Marijuana Manifesto: How Lies, Corruption, and Propaganda Kept Cannabis Illegal
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Crystal Lake Memories

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Monster Mash

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Hardcore History

The Victorian Book of the Dead
Death Makes a Holiday: A Cultural History of Halloween
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Satan in America

Vampira: Dark Goddess of Horror
Wasteland: The Great War and the Origins of Modern Horror
American Overdose: The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts
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Grunge Is Dead

Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders
The Knife Man
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Monsters in the Movies

The New York Grimpendium: A Guide to Macabre and Ghastly Sites in New York State
Black Cats and Evil Eyes: A Book of Old-Fashioned Superstitions
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Shock Value

A Curious Man: The Strange and Brilliant Life of Robert "Believe It or Not!" Ripley
Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge
Super Mario: How Nintendo Conquered America
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