Morbidly Curious Book Club®

Morbidly Curious Book Club Podcast

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The Morbidly Curious Book Club® is an 18+ non-fiction book club diving into the darke,r macabre parts of your library, with a passion for learning more about what may be too niche for your family gatherings. What started in 2021 as a dream quickly became a reality, and as of mid-2024, we have over 17,000 global members worldwide with localized chapters sprouting up around the world. The podcast started in 2024 as a way to give the members a little bit more by chatting with the authors themselves about their books. There are also bonus episodes where I chat with the book's subjects or updates r...

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Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places with the author Colin Dickey 24.10.2025 1:08:20

Join the Morbidly Curious Book Club Today: https://www.morbidlycuriousbookclub.com/ Early and ad-free for Patreon members! https://www.patreon.com/cw/TheMorbidlyCuriousBookClub Our October 2025 pick was “ Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places " by Colin Dickey, our 2nd repeat author! "From the author of The Unidentified, an intellectual feast for fans of offbeat history that tak...

(Bonus) Live Recording of Morbidly Curious: A Scientist Explains Why We Can't Look Away with the author Coltan Scrivner 10.10.2025 1:12:57

Join the Morbidly Curious Book Club Today: https://www.morbidlycuriousbookclub.com/ Early + Ad-free for Patreon members: https://www.patreon.com/c/TheMorbidlyCuriousBookClub "Not everyone has a strong impulse toward morbid curiosity. Why, then, are some of us powerfully drawn to content that portrays evil, violence, and suffering? Is and interest in the darker side of life a sign of a moral ba...

In the Mouth of the Wolf: A Murder, a Cover-Up, and the True Cost of Silencing the Press with the author Katherine Corcoran 26.09.2025 1:00:49

Join the Morbidly Curious Book Club Today: https://www.morbidlycuriousbookclub.com/ Our September 2025 pick was “ In the Mouth of the Wolf: A Murder, a Cover-Up, and the True Cost of Silencing the Press " by Katherine Corcoran. Early and ad-free for Patreon members! Join the Patreon today to get exclusive goodies, including the Morbidly Curious Fiction Edition book club: https://patreon.com/Th...

(Bonus) Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy with the author Mary Roach 16.09.2025 1:09:10

Join the Morbidly Curious Book Club Today: https://www.morbidlycuriousbookclub.com/ Early + Ad-free for Patreon members: https://www.patreon.com/c/TheMorbidlyCuriousBookClub " Over time, devices migrated inside the body -- masticators gave way to dentures, glasses to contact lenses, toupees to hair transplants. Replacements became more integrated, more complex, more expensive. False teeth and...

Briefly Perfectly Human: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the End with Death Doula, Alua Arthur 29.08.2025 50:04

Join the Morbidly Curious Book Club Today: https://www.morbidlycuriousbookclub.com/ Our August 2025 pick was “ BRIEFLY PERFECTLY HUMAN: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the End " by death doula Alua Arthur. Early and ad-free for Patreon members! Join the Patreon today to get exclusive goodies, including the Morbidly Curious Fiction Edition book club: https://patreon.com/TheMorbid...

Trail of the Lost:The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail with the author Andrea Lankford 27.06.2025 49:26

Join the Morbidly Curious Book Club Today: https://www.morbidlycuriousbookclub.com/ Our June 2025 pick was “ TRAIL OF THE LOST: The Relentless Search to Bring Home the Missing Hikers of the Pacific Crest Trail " by Andrea Lankford. Early and ad-free for Patreon members! Join the Patreon today to get exclusive goodies, including the Morbidly Curious Fiction Edition book club: https://patreon.co...

(Archive) Scarred: The True Story of How I Escaped NXIVM, the Cult That Bound My Life with the author Sarah Edmondson 31.05.2025 59:01

Join the Morbidly Curious Book Club Today: https://www.morbidlycuriousbookclub.com/ Welcome to another archives episode! Where I speak to a previously selected book club pick author. 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 s...

(Bonus) Little Bosses Everywhere: How the Pyramid Sceme Shaped America with the author Bridget Read 25.05.2025 1:08:26

Join the Morbidly Curious Book Club Today: https://www.morbidlycuriousbookclub.com/ " There is a common, nebulous understanding among Americans that MLM is off and exploitative. But a shrug goes along with it, too, as one does with Scientology, or other factions of this country's colorful fringe. It is one of our many freak sideshows, falling somewhere between a cult, a crime, and a joke....

(Archive, Part 2/2) Unmask Alice: LSD, the Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World's Most Notorious Diaries with the author Rick Emerson 16.05.2025 1:47:03

Part 2/2 of my conversation with Rick Emerson on his book, Unmask Alice. Listen to part 1 before this one! Join the Morbidly Curious Book Club Today: https://www.morbidlycuriousbookclub.com/ Welcome to another archives episode! Where I speak to a previously selected book club pick author. In 2024, I launched this podcast to delve deeper into our book club's nonfiction selections by engaging di...

(Archive, Part 1/2) Unmask Alice: LSD, the Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the World's Most Notorious Diaries with the author Rick Emerson 16.05.2025 1:24:04

Join the Morbidly Curious Book Club Today: https://www.morbidlycuriousbookclub.com/ Welcome to another archives episode! Where I speak to a previously selected book club pick author. 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 so...

Waco Rising: David Koresh, the FBI, and the Birth of America's Modern Militias with the author Kevin Cook 25.04.2025 1:06:30

Join the Morbidly Curious Book Club Today: https://www.morbidlycuriousbookclub.com/ Welcome to the Morbidly Curious Book Club’s Podcast! In this episode, we are discussing our April 2025 book pick, “ WACO RISING: David Koresh, the FBI, and the Birth of America's Modern Militias ” by Kevin Cook. Shout out to member Jillian for helping me with the outro to this one... Early and ad-free for Patre...

Gory Details: Adventures from the Dark Side of Science with the author Erika Engelhaupt 28.03.2025 1:49:46

Join the Morbidly Curious Book Club Today: https://www.morbidlycuriousbookclub.com/ Welcome to the Morbidly Curious Book Club’s Podcast! In this episode, we are discussing our March 2025 book pick, “ GORY DETAILS: Adventures from the Dark Side of Science ” by Erika Engelhaupt. Early and ad-free for Patreon members! Get reading vlogs, an exclusive fiction book club, and more: https://www.patreon.co...

(Archive) 18 Tiny Deaths: The Untold Story of the Woman Who Invented Modern Forensics with the author Bruce Goldfarb 25.03.2025 1:18:31

Join the Morbidly Curious Book Club Today: https://www.morbidlycuriousbookclub.com/ 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...

Tremors in the Blood: Murder, Obsession, and the Birth of the Lie Detector with the author Amit Katwala 21.02.2025 1:08:47

Join the Morbidly Curious Book Club Today: https://www.morbidlycuriousbookclub.com/ Welcome to the Morbidly Curious Book Club’s Podcast! In this episode, we are discussing our February 2025 book pick, “ TREMORS IN THE BLOOD: Murder, Obsession, and the Birth of the Lie Detector ” by Amit Katwala. Early and ad-free for Patreon members! Get reading vlogs, an exclusive fiction book club, and more: htt...

All That is Wicked: A Gilded-Age Story of Murder and the Race to Decode the Criminal Mind with the author Kate Winkler Dawson 24.01.2025 1:46:04

WELCOME TO SEASON 2! Join the Morbidly Curious Book Club Today: https://www.morbidlycuriousbookclub.com/ 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. Early and ad-free for Patreon members! If you'd like to join you can here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/s2e1-all-that-is-1205470...

SEASON 2 (Trailer) 28.12.2024 3:10

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 Ami...

Boys Enter the House: The Victims of John Wayne Gacy and the Lives They Left Behind with the author David Nelson 22.11.2024 1:28:18

Join the Morbidly Curious Book Club Today: https://www.morbidlycuriousbookclub.com/ Welcome to the Morbidly Curious Book Club’s Podcast! In this episode, we are discussing our November 2024 book pick, “ BOYS ENTER THE HOUSE: The Victims of John Wayne Gacy and the Lives They Left Behind ” by David Nelson. As investigators brought out the bagged remains of several dozen young men from a small Chicag...

Goodbye Hello: Processing Grief and Understanding Death Through the Paranormal with the author Adam Berry 25.10.2024 2:06:32

Join the Morbidly Curious Book Club Today: https://www.morbidlycuriousbookclub.com/ Welcome to the Morbidly Curious Book Club’s Podcast! In this episode, we are discussing our October 2024 book pick, “ GOODBYE HELLO: Processing Grief and Understanding Death Through the Paranormal ” by Adam Berry! From paranormal investigator and host of Kindred Spirits Adam Berry comes Goodbye Hello , which blends...

Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History with the author Bill Schutt 27.09.2024 1:50:12

Join the Morbidly Curious Book Club Today: https://www.morbidlycuriousbookclub.com/ Welcome to the Morbidly Curious Book Club’s Podcast! In this episode, we are discussing our September 2024 book pick, “ CANNIBALISM: A Perfectly Natural History ” by Bill Schutt. For centuries scientists have written off cannibalism as a bizarre phenomenon with little biological significance. Its presence in nature...

(Bonus) Memento Mori: The Art of Contemplating Death to Live a Better Life with the author Joanna Ebenstein, Founder of Morbid Anatomy 10.09.2024 1:32:53

Join the Morbidly Curious Book Club Today: https://www.morbidlycuriousbookclub.com/ “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...

Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America's Cemeteries with the author Greg Melville 30.08.2024 1:22:20

Join the Morbidly Curious Book Club Today: https://www.morbidlycuriousbookclub.com/ Welcome to the Morbidly Curious Book Club’s Podcast! In this episode, we are discussing our August 2024 book pick, “ OVER MY DEAD BODY: Unearthing the Hidden History of America's Cemeteries ” by Greg Melville. Journalist Greg Melville’s Over My Dead Body is an “astonishing . . . fascinating . . . powerful” ( N...

(Bonus) 222 Cemeteries to See Before You Die by Loren Rhoads 27.08.2024 1:13:54

Join the Morbidly Curious Book Club Today: https://www.morbidlycuriousbookclub.com/ 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 stor...

A Light in the Dark: Surviving More Than Ted Bundy by Kathy Kleiner Rubin and Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi 27.07.2024 2:18:55

Join the Morbidly Curious Book Club Today: https://www.morbidlycuriousbookclub.com/ Welcome to the Morbidly Curious Book Club’s Podcast! In this episode, we are discussing our July 2024 book pick, “ A LIGHT IN THE DARK: Surviving More Than Ted Bundy ” by Kathy Kleiner Rubin and Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi. About the book: "In January 1978, I slept in my bed at the Chi Omega sorority house at Flori...

(Archive) The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis by Maria Smilios 08.07.2024 2:17:26

The Day I Die: The Untold Story of Assisted Dying in America by Anita Hannig 30.06.2024 1:35:38

Join the Morbidly Curious Book Club Today: https://www.morbidlycuriousbookclub.com/ Welcome to the Morbidly Curious Book Club’s Podcast! In this episode, we are discussing our June 2024 book pick, “ THE DAYE 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 fi...