Gory Details

Gory Details is an excellent collection of bite-size trivia occupying the Venn diagram of taboo, macabre, and disgusting. I am looking forward to wowing anyone who will listen with the profusion of anecdotes and factoids about death and poop I've absorbed from this book (I've already deployed the fascinating/gag-inducing truth of just how blowflies have been known to interfere with crime scenes to one unfortunate soul, who may or may not have been eating at the time). Engelhaupt writes on a multitude of gruesome subjects with candor, good humor, and contagious fascination.