Morbid Curiosity est mort. Called "The learned person's approach to all things dark and lovely" by the Azrael Project Newsletter, for 10 years Morbid Curiosity magazine presented true, first-person accounts of unusual experiences. Morbid Curiosity was an annual journal published and edited by Loren Rhoads. Click on one of the covers below for information about authors and subjects included in each issue.
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- Subjects:
- Absinthe
- Amsterdam
- Aurora borealis
- Autoerotic strangulation
- Black mass
- Cremation
- Dachau
- DMT
- Eating insects
- Electrocution
- Firewalking
- Fossils
- Ghosts
- Graveyards
- Hill of Crosses
- House of Death
- Lunar eclipse
- Mescaline
- Necrophilia
- Parochial school
- Portugal
- Psychic vampirism
- Shrines
- SM filmmaking
- Torture museum
- Thunderstorms
- Authors:
- Christopher R. Bales
- Mary Jo Bole
- Frank Burch
- Lorelei Dot
- Jennifer Dumpert
- E. D. Edwards
- Vincent A. Furia
- Gravity Goldberg
- Michelle Handelman
- Jon Hanna
- Jack B. Haskins, PhD
- Janet Hauser
- Knud Romer Joergensen
- Treena Joi
- Daniel Kemp
- M. Parfitt
- Trilby Plants
- Michael Portuesi
- Claudius Reich
- Loren Rhoads
- K. Russell
- Jasmine Sailing
- Maria Schur
- Benjamin Scuglia
- Christine Sulewski
- Brian Thomas
- Leilah Wendell
- Bruce Young
- Subjects:
- Assisting a suicide
- Auschwitz
- Cadaver lab
- Cemetery tours
- Civil War ghosts
- Crack babies
- Creepy dolls
- Cross-dressing
- Danse Macabre
- Exotic dancing
- Folsom Prison
- Graveyard monuments
- Haunted sanitarium
- Heroin withdrawal
- Impersonating Death
- Mad Cow disease
- Mormon youth
- Mortuary scandal
- Phantom hounds
- Pittsburgh
- Police photographs
- Postmortem baptism
- Prison visits
- Rotting skulls
- Sacramento's Old City Cemetery
- Spirit possession
- SPAM
- Tarantula breeding
- Voodoo
- Zombie salmon
- Authors:
- Martha Allard
- Christopher R. Bales
- Aaron Cometbus
- Amy Cryer
- Lorelei Dot
- E. D. Edwards
- Jessica Eisner
- Dean Estes
- Dana Fredsti
- Chad Hensley
- Carey Hodges
- J. D.
- T. A. Miller
- Jennifer L. Moore
- M. Parfitt
- Anna Puchalski
- Loren Rhoads
- Diego Ruiz
- Jasmine Sailing
- Gene Santagada
- Ian Springer
- R. N. Taylor
- Brian Thomas
- Leilah Wendell
- Bruce Young
- Subjects:
- Barbie
- Betel nuts
- Black Madonna
- Black magic
- Bone Chapel of Kutna Hora
- Cancer
- CIA Public Information Office
- Corsetry
- Dead dogs
- Dead landlords
- Dimension surfing
- Durian
- Ghosts
- Grave-robbing
- Graveyard books
- Guns
- Kava
- Mummies of Guanajuato
- Magic mushrooms
- Prison
- Radiation therapy
- Ritual darkness
- Ruins of Detroit
- Salem Witch Museum
- San Francisco earthquake of 1989
- Self-mutilation
- Thyroid disease
- Unsafe sex
- Vivisection labs
- Why we OD
- Working on The X-Files
- Authors:
- Alfred Avery Jr.
- Jessica D. Eisner
- Dana Fredsti
- Pandora Gorey
- Michael Hemmingson
- Scott Jacobson
- Mason Jones
- John Kerper
- Jennifer L. Moore
- George Neville-Neil
- M. Parfitt
- Claudius Reich
- Loren Rhoads
- Doug Rice
- Jasmine Sailing
- Julia Solis
- Lee Smith
- Ian Springer
- Jeffrey A. Stadt
- R. N. Taylor
- Brian Thomas
- Geoff Walker
- Don Webb
- Jacki Webb
- Bruce Young
- Subjects:
- AIDS testing
- Ant invasion
- Car-jacking
- Castration
- Civil War medicine
- Dead co-workers
- Disaster re-enactment
- Female troubles
- FX corpses
- Haunted graveyards
- Haunted hacienda
- Hearse driver
- Homicidal boyfriend
- Inside tombs
- Menstruation
- Mental hospitals
- Necrophilia
- Pennsylvania Dutch witches
- Permanent marks
- Psychiatric outpatients
- Public lavatories
- Rabid blue jays
- Rosehill Cemetery
- Self-mutilation
- Shamanism in Chiapas
- Speed psychosis
- Tattoo
- Teenage sex offenders
- Tigers and jaguars
- Time travel
- UFO abduction
- Zodiac Killer
- Authors:
- Emlin Adeniken
- Violet Blackwell
- Kay Bozich-Owens
- Kathleen Camplin
- Jordan Cochran
- Joe Donohoe
- Gary W. Feather
- Roy K. Felps
- Dana Fredsti
- Bill Hayes
- Michael Hemmingson
- Alex S. Johnson
- Winter Laake
- Hugues Leblanc
- Darren Mckeeman
- George Neville-Neil
- M. Parfitt
- Michael Malefica Pendragon
- Timothy Renner
- Elizabeth Rousseau
- Jasmine Sailing
- Ann Short
- Lee Smith
- Jeffrey A. Stadt
- Brian Thomas
- Leilah Wendell
- Lizabeth West
- Vance Yount
- Subjects:
- Alzheimer's disease
- Casting a curse
- Cruising
- Drunk driving
- Fireworks
- First communion
- Freedom
- Funeral homes
- Graveyards
- Homophobia
- Imprisonment
- Kali
- LSD
- Messages from beyond
- Multiple sclerosis
- Museum of Death
- Mutter Museum
- Nursing the dying
- Occult studies
- Princess Warrior
- Religious choice
- Rhinoplasty
- Rossyln Chapel
- Sleeping in a casket
- Spinal injections
- Starring in porn
- Terrorist bombings
- UFOs
- Why we're like this
- Authors:
- Emlin Adeniken
- Kelly Gunter Atlas
- Shira B.
- Kathleen Camplin
- Forestter Cobalt
- Kalifer Deil
- C. R. Dendy
- Dean Estes
- Dana Fredsti
- Gravity Goldberg
- Dalton Graham
- Bill Hayes
- Brian Hodge
- Mark Hodgetts
- Mike Hunter
- Alex S. Johnson
- Nancy Kilpatrick
- Karen Kruse
- Hugues Leblanc
- Melanie Leger
- John Maclay
- Jennifer L. Moore
- George Neville-Neil
- M. Parfitt
- Christine Quigley
- Claudius Reich
- Loren Rhoads
- Jasmine Sailing
- Brian Thomas
- Kimberlee Traub
- Geoff Walker
- Bruce Young
- Subjects:
- Anarchists in Paris
- Big Brother
- Buying a gun
- California Coast Guard
- Channeling spirits
- Genoa protesters
- Getting mugged
- Ghost hunters
- Ghosts
- Hallucinating naturally
- Haunted houses
- In the nuthouse
- LSD
- Medical experiments
- Night terrors
- NYC subways
- Occult shops
- Pere Lachaise Cemetery
- Police brutality
- Prisoners in America
- Raccoon invasion
- Racism in the family
- Skinning road kill
- Slaughterhouse skulls
- Street violence
- Suicidal boyfriends
- Suicidal thoughts
- Vienna Burial Museum
- Authors:
- Shira B.
- Greg Bauder
- M. Christian
- Forestter Cobalt
- Jeff Dauber
- Suzanne Dechnik
- Kalifer Deil
- Garry Erwin
- Dean Estes
- Roy K. Felps
- Drew Feuer
- Dana Fredsti
- William Grace
- Gordon A. Graves
- Chad Hensley
- Mason Jones
- Clay Kenyon
- Peter Lewis
- Dan McQuillan
- Jennifer L. Moore
- George Neville-Neil
- M. Parfitt
- Loren Rhoads
- Robert Shuster
- Lee Smith
- John Sulac
- Jill Tracy
- Kimberlee Traub
- Vale
- Mehitobel Wilson
- Lilah Wild
- Willow
- Subjects:
- Amityville
- Art from blood
- Art from bones
- Body fluids
- Car accident
- Childbirth
- Congenital abnormalities
- Dead witches
- Egyptian gods
- Graveyards
- Halloween shoppers
- Hitchhiking in Oklahoma
- Industrial sailing
- Invasive medicine
- Lyme disease
- Malaysia
- Miscarriage
- Office voodoo
- Nicotine dreams
- Nursing
- Rabies
- Shamans
- Serial killers
- Silent spring
- Surfing
- Television stardom
- Terminal cancer
- Testicular injury
- Torture instruments
- Authors:
- Emlin Adeniken
- Michael Arnzen
- Dana Fredsti
- Gravity Goldberg
- Rain Graves
- Andrew Henderson
- Mark Hodgetts
- Jennifer E. C. Humphrey
- Keith Lowell Jensen
- Alex S. Johnson
- Brian Keene
- Clay Kenyon
- Allegra Lundyworf
- Leon Marcelo
- A. M. Muffaz
- M. Parfitt
- Ashley Phelps
- Claudius Reich
- Alison Renner
- Timothy Renner
- Loren Rhoads
- Stephanie Rose
- Joseph M. Shea
- Alma Sinan
- Paul Stansfield
- Mary Ann Stein
- Karen Switzer
- Brian Thomas
- Karen Toensfeldt
- Beth Touchette-Laughlin
- Mason Winfield
- Simon Wood
- Subjects:
- Archaeology
- Blood drinking
- Blood sacrifices
- Bus accidents
- Car crashes
- Dead guys
- Ecstasy
- Embalming
- Ghosts
- Grave-robbing
- Hiroshima
- Internet dating
- LSD
- Mammograms
- Monument plaques
- Mummies
- Murder
- New Zealand
- Nuns
- Palermo
- Plane crashes
- Road kill
- Rosehill Cemetery
- Satanists
- Skydiving
- Stalkers
- Stanford University
- Suicide
- Thailand
- USS Arizona memorial
- Authors:
- Aldyth Beltane
- Christopher Bloom
- Mary Jo Bole
- Maurice G. Broaddus
- Christopher G. Ewing
- Skip Forest
- Dana Fredsti
- Ray Garton
- Justin Hall
- Jaeme I. Hernandez
- Charlee Jacob
- Katrina James
- Jerianne
- Karen Kruse
- Hugues Leblanc
- Payton Levine
- Erik S. McMahon
- J. G. Meldrum
- Miranda S. Padgett
- M. Parfitt
- Kimberly Poeppey-Del Rio
- Loren Rhoads
- William Selby
- Paul Stansfield
- Rebecca Toennessen
- Karen Toensfeldt
- Beth Touchette-Laughlin
- Jill Tracy
- Uncle Anne
- Geoff Walker
- Winfield Wiggins
- Simon Wood
- Rae Zack
- Subjects:
- Anesthesia awareness
- Artistic injuries
- Body Worlds
- Cemeteries
- Convicted murderer
- Crazy neighbors
- Cross-dressing coeds
- Dead bird
- Dead relatives
- Epilepsy
- Fever dreams
- Firestorm
- First autopsy
- Fredericks of Hollywood
- Full-body tattoos
- Grandmarama
- Great Dismal Swamp
- Hauntings
- Hellraiser Gopher
- Hurricane survivors
- Hypermobility
- Idle hands
- Internet dating
- Knife attack
- Mensa
- Needle exchange
- Punk girls on coke
- Rabies
- Rotten fruit
- Rozz Williams
- Small-town jailers
- Spontaneous miscarriage
- Student pilot
- Suicide aftermath
- Trannies after dark
- Unidentified abdominal mass
- Wildlife in the home
- Working in the madhouse
- Authors:
- Melinda Adams
- Christopher R. Bales
- Trey R. Barker
- Timothy Blaszka
- David Booth
- Sherilyn Connelly
- Jeff Dauber
- John A. Domeier
- Joe Donohoe
- Skip Forest
- Jude Gibson
- T. M. Gray
- Jennifer Gwirtz
- Michael Hemmingson
- Katrina James
- Alex S. Johnson
- Dorian Katz
- Allegra Lundyworf
- Miranda S. Padgett
- M. Parfitt
- Claudius Reich
- Loren Rhoads
- Shauna Rogan
- Jeanne L. Rogers
- Melissa Sak
- Gene Santagada
- William Selby
- Lorelei Shannon
- RuthAnn Spike
- Paul Stansfield
- Beth Touchette-Laughlin
- Will Walker
- Chris West
- Lilah Wild
- David Niall Wilson
- Simon Wood
- Subjects:
- Balinese homunculus
- Blindness
- Blood drinking
- Collyer house
- Colonoscopy
- Dancing with the homeless
- David Bowie
- Dead cat
- DIY Funerals
- Down's syndrome children
- Emergency childbirth
- Eye surgery
- Guardian angel
- Gypsy boys in Spain
- Hammer Murderer
- Homeless in Manhattan
- Hurricane Katrina survivor
- Incubator baby
- Insanity defense
- Invasive medical procedures
- Internet rape
- Knee surgery
- Loch Ness monster
- Man under the bed
- Mother Love Bone
- New Orleans
- 9/11
- Our own monsters
- Pompeii
- Possible hijacking
- Sky burial
- Survival Research Laboratories
- Temporal lobe seizures
- UFO sighting
- Authors:
- Aldyth Beltane
- Raina Bird
- Alan M. Clark
- Sherilyn Connelly
- Becca Costello
- Patricia Cram
- John Everson
- Seth Flagsberg
- Amanda Frink
- Karen Harper
- Seth Lindberg
- Keith Lowell Jensen
- Bryan Marchese
- Nina Morrison
- Miranda S. Padgett
- M. Parfitt
- Ethan Port
- Loren Rhoads
- Shade Rupe
- RuthAnn Spike
- Lena Strayhorn
- Beth Touchette-Laughlin
- Will Walker
- Lee Weinstein
- Chris West
- Simon Wood