 | The Pink Room by Mark Laflamme
Buy new: $15.95 / Used from: $8.83 Grim and frightening, it's the story of a leading physicist who attempts to use the science of string theory to bring his daughter back from the dead.
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 | On Death and Dying by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Buy new: $9.50 / Used from: $0.50 A sort of handbook on dying. Like the one the dead family in Beetlejuice carried around.
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 | Death Be Not Proud (Perennial Classics) by John J. Gunther
Buy used from: $0.01 Struggling, fighting for life, dying anyway.
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 | Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe
Buy new: $15.61 / Used from: $4.99 Nobody does it better. Poe is the master of melancholy and the macabre. I'm betting he was also a bummer at parties.
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 | Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife by Mary Roach
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $0.73 Mary Roach is brilliant and hysterical. I hope she comes to my funeral. In 100 years or so.
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 | Death and the Afterlife (The Pilgrim Library of World Religions)
Buy new: $17.00 / Used from: $4.10 Another guide to croaking. You can't have too many.
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 | The American Way of Death Revisited by Jessica Mitford
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $3.90 Insights in to corruption in the funeral industry. You might be compelled to bury yourself, instead.
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 | Buried Alive: The Terrifying History of Our Most Primal Fear by Jan Bondeson
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $1.00 Quit shoveling dirt down on me, you bastard. An uncomfortable look at the most horrific fate imaginable.
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 | Beyond and Back: Those Who Died and Lived to Tell It! by Ralph Wilkerson
Buy used from: $0.01 This book gave me the creeps when I was a kid. I haven't read it since.
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 | Reservation Road (Vintage Contemporaries) by John Burnham Schwartz
Buy new: $11.86 / Used from: $0.01 A literate and fascinating handling of death, guilt and grief.
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 | Death's Door: Modern Dying and the Ways We Grieve: A Cultural Study by Sandra M. Gilbert
Buy new: $29.95 / Used from: $0.32 If you don't read this book, you'll never grieve correctly. You probably won't die correctly, either.
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 | We Don't Die: George Anderson's Conversations with the Other Side by Joel Martin
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 Makes you want to break out the Ouija board. And some liquor, lots of liquor.
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 | Come Along with Me by Shirley Jackson
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $4.33 Shirley Jackson was quite morbid. Death, undeath, ghosts, grief... Also fun at parties.
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 | Round-Trip to Deadsville: A Year in the Funeral Underground by Tim Matson
Buy new: $11.21 / Used from: $3.00 A must read for fans of the reaper.
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 | Pet Sematary by Stephen King
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 A damn horrific work of fiction. Death, denial and a how to guide to bringing back dead family members. See also: The Pink Room.
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 | Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
Buy new: $16.29 / Used from: $2.19 Mary Roach again. Marry me, Mrs. Roach!
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 | The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson
Buy new: $14.95 / Used from: $3.48 Death that occasionally rhymes.
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 | Audrey Rose by Frank De Felitta
Buy used from: $0.50 Reincarnation is creepy. The book cover alone rattled me when I was a lad.
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 | All That Remains: A Scarpetta Novel (Kay Scarpetta) by Patricia Cornwell
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 Cornwell handles the science of death so well, you will smell the decay. In fact, scratch and sniff Karpetta novels may be next.
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 | Scene of the Crime: A Writers Guide to Crime Scene Investigation (Howdunit Series) by Anne Wingate
Buy used from: $0.97 An absolute must if you want to write about dead people and things.
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 | Bag of Bones by Stephen King
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 A haunted love story. It really is, you know. Death, grieving, ghosts and mystery.
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 | Asterisk by Mark LaFlamme
Buy new: $11.95 / Used from: $16.52 The future is friggin spooky...
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