Ghastly Gore & Putrifying Pestilence
Catastrophic Crashes!
Carious Criminalia!
Historical Atrocities!
Creepy Cemeteries!
Demographical Death!
Shocking Shopping!
Hysterical Hauntings!
Atrocious Art!
Miscellaneous Morbidity!
Urban Exploration!



Adipocere
A perfectly disgusting site which is, as its name implies, about that horribly awful substance that some of us will become after death. Yes, "Grave Wax," "Corpse Cheese" or "Mortuary Fat" - call it what you will! Some delightfully gruesome photos highlight this page.

Anatomic Pathology Case Of The Month
A fascinating collection of pathological case studies, complete with gross and microscopic photographs. Recommended for those of us who never miss an episode of "Trauma: Life In The ER".

Autopsy Report
"Log of experiences as a medical examiner intern." Need I say more?

Baby Photo Retouching Service
A very strange site, by a very poor photo retoucher who offers to make dead babies look like dead babies with smeary faces. The "before" and "after" gallery is a must-see.

The Black Dahlia Web Site
An interesting website about the infamous Black Dahlia murder case which includes some graphic photos of Elizabeth Short's mutilated body.

Boatswain Post-Mortem Pages
A brilliant collection of post-mortem photographs - awe-inspiring both in quality and quantity!

Body Modification E-Zine
A somewhat frightening look at the various ways that people mutilate themselves. I'm a bit obsessed with the scarification page, myself...

Case Index - University of Pittsburgh
An excellent collection of patient case studies - some of which end in death and include forensic pathology images - courtesy the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Department of Pathology. Something to read on a slow rainy day...

Celebrity Morgue
A classic site in which you can view the rotting remains of such former denizens of high society as Marilyn Monroe, Tupac, JFK, Ted Bundy, and my personal favorite, Edgar Allan Poe. Don't forget to say hello to him when you pass by...

Choose Death
Although the main site has been down for awhile, this subsidiary site offers a large collection of some of the most repulsive gore images on the web. Prepare to be horrified.

Corpse Museums In Thailand
You've got to see this amazing site to believe it! Excellently gruesome images of Siamese Corpses preserved in living color. (Be sure to catch the "Crime", "Surgery" and the hard to spot "Miserable Affairs In Thailand" sections.) Now, why don't they have any museums like this where I live?

Corpse Of The Week
A very well-done site, which lives up to its name by featuring a newly submitted corpse photo every week. It also contains a gruesome archive and some ugly photos of a deceased Chris Farley. Recommended!

Crime Expo South Africa
Crime Expo South Africa is an organization determined to expose to the truth about the South African crime rate. Of course, their page makes for a fascinating browse, filled as it with murder and mayhem. But best of all is the Shocking Images page.

Crime Life
An amazing site chock full of the most despicable and disgusting the web has to offer. The photo gallery is comprehensive, the content exhaustive. Definitely a must-see!

Crime Magazine: An Encyclopedia Of Crime
A wonderful site full of thought-provoking articles, tantalizing trivia, gore and more!

Custom Prosthetic Designs, Inc.
Robert R. Barron, a former Senior CIA Disguise Specialist, is committed to restoring identities through prosthetic devices. Some of the before pics are pretty gruesome, but it is amazing what he can do to improve people's appearances!

DeadBaby.Com
Okay, so there's not really much of anything here yet, but what potential! Unfortunately, they don't have an e-mail address, otherwise I'd send them some contributions...

DoeNetwork.Org
An international volunteer organization dedicated to missing persons and unidentified victims' cold cases. Reading the solved cases is most interesting!

Emergency Medicine (EMBBS)
An excellent emergency medicine site which features a lovely photo gallery. Winces aplenty are to be had here!

Faces Of Death
One of the most comprehensive gore sites on the web, although a bit sullied by the ever-annoying porn site links all over it. Still, a must-see... although you may spend a lot of time averting your eyes.

Flap Surgery
Debased.Com has unearthed some of the most repulsive surgical pictures ever!

Forensic Pathology
A collection of forensic pathology clinical photos - both gross and microscopic - with nice scientific explanations of the facts behind the carnage. Very interesting...

Gimpyd.Com
Gimpyd.Com claims to bring you the gutter of the internet. While I'm not sure if this site is really scraping the bottom of the gutter, it certainly is laying somewhere within its fetid realm. Pursue at your own risk!

Goreking.Com
A great forum on which to find the latest disturbing images. Squeamish need not apply!

Gross Specimens
A wonderful collection of fetuses in jars and the like, which includes a lovely 360 degree panorama video of one of the more disturbing fetuses. Great fun!

ID-Wanted.Org
A fascinating site dedicated to help law enforcement find missing or unidentified bodies. Contains some graphic post-mortem shots of unidentified victims.

L.A. County Coroner Unidentified Persons Search
Exactly as it says - you can look at the images of deceased persons who have yet to be identified by the L.A. coroner's office. Some of the headshots are not exactly fresh...

Menu
A website chockful of disturbing images under the categories "Baby" (yes, there are some doozy deformities!), "History" (WWII-era atrocities and the like), and "Others" (horrible mutilations, etc.) This one has some pics I've never seen before, which is hard to pull off!

Mexico - The Dark Side
A wonderful collection of photographs of the Museo de las Momias, various Mexican cemeteries, and the always-nifty Day Of The Dead celebrations. Gosh, it's enough to make me want to visit Mexico!

Morbid Visions
Morbid Visions has a nice collection of ghastly images - and an annoying adolescent attitude to go with it. I can do without the attitude, but the images are worth wincing over.

My Rattlesnake Bite
13-year-old Justin Schwartz was bitten in the left hand by a rattlesnake on July 21, 2002. Although he survived, the venom destroyed much of the tissue in his hand and resulted in a series of gruesome skin graft surgeries to save his hand. Photographs from his surgery are posted on this site - and they look PAINFUL!

Necro Gore
A somewhat disturbing site with a small but disturbing collection of gore images.

Nineteenth Century Photography
A nice collection of memento mori photographs.

Ogrish
What a perfectly horrible website, chock full of disturbing videos and images.. So, what are you waiting for?

Palermo Mummies
One of the sites that I most want to visit when I go to Europe (if that day ever comes around, that is) is the Capuchin's Catacombs of Palermo. Cynthia Karalla took an amazing series of photographs of the mummies and has posted them on her website - so you can see what the fuss is all about.

Plastinated Specimen Visual Gallery
Here's a lovely - and educational! - collection of plastinated specimens courtesy the University of Michigan Medical School. Of particular interest to sickos like us are the pathology specimens.

Post-Mortem Photography
A nice collection of vintage post-mortem photographs.

Rotten Dot Com
A brilliant site, chock full of some of the most amusing and/or disgusting images available from the archives of alt.tasteless.pictures. A must see!

Russian Necro-World
The return of one of the sickest sites on the web. Need I say more?

Scarmageddon
The world definitely needs more websites like Scarmageddon - a site that collects images of scars and their associated stories and allows you to rate and comment on them. Positively wince-inducing!

Shark Attacks
A gruesome photo gallery highlights this website which keeps track of shark attacks as they happen. Handy, is it not?

Shock
An impressive collection of disturbing images, well organized into such categories as Accidents, Animal Attacks, Dismemberment, Murder, Suicide, and War. Well-done!

Show Me Your Wound
Well, the title pretty much says it all. Bring out the Bactine, Mom!

Show No Mercy
A very lovely site, chock full of the choicest gore available on the web. Well worth a stroll... but please don't step on the bespattered remains!

Si Quey's Place
From Alf's always-interesting website comes this magnificently morbid travelogue of a trip to the Songran Niyomsane Forensic Medicine Museum in Bangkok, where executed criminal Si Quey's naked body greets you. Definitely a must-see if ever in Thailand!

The Smoking Gun: Archive
From the always-compelling Smoking Gun, this is a collection of images including decades-old crime photos, mug shots, JKF assassination pics, and war casualty images during World War II. Gripping stuff, of course.

Suicide Photos and Drawings
A collection of suicide methods with illustrations. (Although, strictly speaking, not all of the pics are from suicides.) Still, they are pretty disgusting. Strong stomachs only need apply!

Thanatos.Net
A wonderful collection of mortuary photographs, x-rays, and images of death masks highlights this excellent site. The shop is pretty wonderful too!

Trauma Code
An advertisement for a seemingly quite fascinating book called (you guessed it) Trauma Code, which details all sorts of misfortune that has befallen individuals before you. Now the question remains - which manner of gruesome death will choose you? Only the suicidal know for sure...

The Trauma Imagebank
Lots of interesting and gory trauma pics can be found here.

World of Death
An excellent collection of yuck-yuck-yuck images!


AirDisaster.Com
An absolutely enchanting site chock full of the most intensely horrifying moments ever experienced in the Wild Blue Yonder. I could spend all day at a site like this!

Amusement Ride Accident Reports and News
If you're thinking of heading to Great America, Six Flags, Disneyland, or any other theme park, this page might make you think twice. Unless, of course, the thought of being stranded upside down for six hours or being hurled from a roller coaster to your death actually sounds like a fun day out.

Aviation Videos
Ken sends a very interesting link to a site featuring videos of various plane crashes (some of them fatal) and near misses, which includes three different views of the 747's hitting the WTC towers on 9-11. I wasted about an hour here looking at the various videos. Hope you enjoy it too!

Bus Plunge!
The name says it all - a collection of tragic tales of buses plunging into all variety of abysses. Gripping stuff, quite naturally!

Car-Accidents.Com
Of course, people like us want to go to the Fatal Accidents page first...

Crash Fetish
This is a true labor of... um... "love" from someone utterly obsessed with the violence of car crashes. The abundant photo galleries show mangled vehicles, some with people trapped/dead inside them, and abundant victims of crash trauma. Definitely a must for the rubber necker in all of us.

PlaneCrashInfo.Com
Another completely captivating plane crash archive. Exhaustive and entrancing!

Wrecked Exotics
A wonderful collection of bad car crash photos. Although not the most morbid site on the planet, everything does have that fine hint of death about it.


The Amityville Murders
When I was a kid, one of my favorite books was Jay Anson's "The Amityville Horror". Of course, having re-read it again recently, I now realize the book is utter nonsense, but I am still captivated by the REAL horror of the house - the murder of his family (two sisters, two brothers, and both of his parents) by Ronald "Butch" DeFeo on November 13, 1974. This is an incredible site which contains abundant information on the murders, including a full set of crime scene photographs. It's interesting to note that all of the family were killed in the same position - face down with a fatal gunshot wound to the back - as you can see by the pictures. Fascinating stuff, whether or not you believe in the ghost story!

Black Dahlia: The Story As It Was Originally Reported
This site is a tie-in with the movie The Black Dahlia, but it contains a number of original vintage newspaper articles that are quite fascinating.

The Crime Library
An excellent collection of articles about your favorite infamous individuals.

Crime Magazine: An Encyclopedia Of Crime
An excellent and huge collection of crime articles. Well worth a browse!

Crime Spider
An exhaustive list of sites covering all manner of criminology. Of course, I'm especially partial to the crime scene photos, myself. Highly recommended!

Dead Man Eating
Ever since the Texas Department of Criminal Justice <ahem> decided to take down their "Final Meals" listing on their website I've been virtually inconsoleable. Until this site came along to fill the gap, that is. You can also read the final statements of the executed Texans. And ever since I saw the documentary "The Thin Blue Line" I've tended to believe the ones who say they are innocent...

Death Penalty Information
An excellent site about the history and current state of the death penalty in the U.S. The most interesting aspect is the interactive U.S. map, where you can look at a variety of statistics on a state-by-state basis. Pure statistical morbid fascination!

Electric Chair Gallery
Now, here's a nifty site! A gallery of electric chairs used in executions throughout the country! Fun, fun, fun!

Execution Tapes
An interesting link from the Sound Portraits.Org website which features both the audio recording of a botched execution and a few last statements recorded by condemned inmates immediately before their executions.

The Guillotine Headquarters
All about that most charming of execution devices!

Homicide in Chicago 1870-1930
For those of us in the Chicagoland area, this website is a godsend! Well, maybe more like a devilsend. Northwestern University has put together an interactive database of homicides in Chicago from 1870-1930. Unfortunately, I couldn't find any in my neighborhood, damn the luck! But it makes for an interesting browse in any event, especially the case of the day. My next hobby will be to start tracking down these houses where the murders occurred and take pictures of them for my website!

Internet Crime Archives
A very complex and colorful site chock full of info on your "favorite" serial killers. Remember, don't get so close to the study that you yourself actually end up inside the fridge! Essential.

Jack The Ripper
A magnificent, fact-filled, highly gruesome journey through the terror of the Whitechapel Murders. Everything you could possibly want to know about old Jack's evil deeds and abundant proof that the good old days were horrible too.

Murder Auction
Here's a site that we definitely need now that Ebay has banned all crime-related auctions. Forcing us to do this now, are you Ebay?

Ohio's Death Row
A site that explores the history of the death penalty in Ohio. Very interesting.

Proceedings of the Old Bailey
You can read about the history of the old court house, find out all about different crimes and punishments given, and how they were altered over time.

Serial Killer Bios
A collection of serial killer bios. Obviously!

Texas Department Of Criminal Justice Statistics
You can also keep tabs on the upcoming executions at this fun-filled site.

Texas Execution Information Center
A very well-researched site that simply presents the facts of the cases -- and of the executions.

ZodiacKiller.Com
A fascinating website detailing one of the most fascinating of unsolved murder sprees.

 


The 1947 Project
"Los Angeles in 1947 was a social powderkeg. War-damaged returning soldiers were threatened by a new kind of independent female, who in turn found her freedoms disappearing as male workers returned to the factories. These conflicts worked themselves out in dark ways. The Black Dahlia is the most famous victim of 1947's sex wars, but hardly the only one. The 1947project seeks to document this pivotal year in L.A., through period reporting and visits to the scenes as they are today." BRAVO!!!

African-American Holocaust
An incredibly powerful and disturbing set of images conveying the horror racism. A must-see.

By The Neck Until Dead
"John Stark Bellamy II is a life-long Clevelander and enthusiast of its storied past. Since 1994 he has been publishing books and performing slideshows chronicling Cleveland crimes and disasters. Described by one reviewer as the 'Cleveland historian your mother warned you about,' he originally started writing about Forest City dismalia because he wanted to read about such melancholy matters and could find little available to such purpose." Sounds like my kind of a historian! Reap the benefits of his fascinating research here.

Capital Punishment U.K.
A comprehensive site that lists the victims of capital punishment in the U.K., broken down in many different categories. Well done!

Censored Pictures of The Great War
Ever notice how when you see photographs of World War I, you don't tend to see any corpse imagery like you do in photos from other wars? That's because most of the governments involved destroyed such images so to not let the people see the realities of war and possibly object. (Gee, somehow I think that practice is still going on today...) Anyway, here is a collection of French photographs that were not destroyed, so we can see the gory realities of war for ourselves. Great images too - especially the corpse in a tree and the corpse on the barbed wire.

Concentration Camps
An excellent 1996-era photographic journey through the ruins of the Birkenau and Mauthausen concentration camps.

Daredevils of Niagara Falls
Many acted stupidly; some gave all.

Dream Anatomy
A wonderful collection of strange and compelling old anatomy illustrations.

Erzsébet
A page chock full of information on everyone's favorite vampire bitch from Hell - Erzsébet (Elizabeth) Bathory, The Blood Countess. Contains wonderful pictures of the Cséjthe Castle ruins as well.

Infernal Device
An absolutely excellent website dedicated to all manner of vile torture implements. Positively breathtaking!

Law Enforcement In The Past
More pictures and illustrations of those ever-wicked medieval torture devices. What sad, sick times they were!

The Mad Monarchs Series
An excellent collection of the most deranged monarchs to ever rule. Compelling reading!

Memento Mori: Death And Photography In 19th Century America
A thought-provoking essay into the history of the popular 19th century art of funerary photography, loaded with numerous sad images.

The Nanjing Massacre
A fascinating chronicle of one of the worst atrocities in history - the Nanjing Massacre of late 1937/early 1938, during which over 300,000 unarmed Chinese civilians were ruthlessly murdered by the Japanese army. Relive the horror through photographs that, although grainy and old, still reveal the sickening darkest side of human nature.

The National Museum of Health & Medicine
A morbidly fascinating museum chock full of such medical goodies as John Wilkes Booth and President Garfield's bullet-riddled spinal columns, giant hairballs removed from stomachs, syphilis-destroyed skulls, old medical equipment, etc.

New Orleans City Insane Asylum Archive
Now here's a fascinating site that makes the Comtesse dizzy with delight! An online archive of the New Orleans City Insane Asylum records from 1882-1888!!! The descriptions of the inmates are absolutely delightful!!

The Official Donnelly Homepage
A mesmerizing and extraordinarily well-crafted page that is dedicated to preserving the history of the Donnellys - a Canadian family who suffered a massacre of five family members in 1880. A wonderful read!

The Peshtigo Fire
Fascinating website dedicated to documenting the worst natural disaster in American history - the Peshtigo Fire of October 8, 1871 which killed at least 1200 people.

Photographs Of Hiroshima And Nagasaki
A fascinating series of pictures illustrating the human toll of the atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Unforgettable imagery.

A Social History Of Conjoined Twins
This sight is more odd and fascinating than dark or gruesome, but it is rather morbid to read about the deaths of conjoined twins. Imagine awakening in the middle of the night to find that your "other half" has died... and knowing that death will soon come to claim you too. Very interesting case studies of siamese twinhood.

The Tale Of The Sawney Beanes
The horrifying (and not necessarily true) tale of the cannibalistic, incestuous Scottish monsters - the Sawney Beane clan.  Gripping bedtime reading!

The Torture Museum
An excellent overview of different eras, techniques, and reasons for torture. Be sure to look at the Medieval photo gallery for a truly frightening empathic reaction.

Tortures And Torments Of The Christian Martyrs
Boy, those early Christians were sure picked on, weren't they? And such imaginative methods of torture! Human ingenuity never ceases to amaze me. View engravings of each of the various torture methods at this fascinating site.

The Triangle Factory Fire
A fascinating site about the horrible tragedy of the Triangle Factory Fire - where over one hundred women perished in 1911. Absolutely gripping!

War Against War!
After World War I, German pacifist Ernst Friedrich began a crusade to end war by showcasing the horrible mutilations and tragic deformities which had befallen many of the German soldiers. Here are a few of those images, as disturbing today as they were at the time.

The Witching Hours
A beautiful site which discusses the abundant historical atrocities of the Witch Hunting era. Be sure to check out "Punishment, Torture and Ordeal" for a truly frightening experience!

The Adams Residence
A wonderful archive of cemetery photographs (primarily of British origin) highlight this site.

After Life
This is one of the most beautiful collections of photography I have ever seen. Jonathan Clark spent several years photographing the seasons changing in England's Streatham Cemetery, and the results are breathtaking. In many cases, subtle animation and sounds are used to enhance the already captivating ambiance of these magical and melancholy pictures. Take my word for it and visit immediately!

Angels In Filth
A great collection of black and white and color photographs of graveyard angel statues.

Beneath Los Angeles
How thoughtful! Steve Goldstein walked around the cemeteries of L.A. and photographed the graves of the famous and infamous for our viewing pleasure. A cyber treat for the morbidly inclined.

Cape Cod Gravestones
An excellent history of the oldest gravestones in Cape Cod.

Cemetery Listings
From Dark Necropolis comes this small but engaging collection of travelogues to cemeteries in the Massachusetts and Rhode Island areas.

Cemetery Monuments
A nice collection of photos of some of the choicest cemetery monuments in the country. It's not laid out in any geographic order and it isn't annotated, but the photographs are lovely all the same.

Cemetery Photo Gallery
A revolving gallery of lovely photographs from some of the world's finest cemeteries, archived monthly. It's the next best thing to being there!

The Cemetery Project
"A light-hearted, occasionally politically-incorrect, pictorial look at the gravesites of OVER 1,000 famous, infamous, and unusual personalities from around the world." Sounds like a wonderful hobby to me!

City of the Silent
The quintessential cemetery site on the web. Be sure to check out the collection of unique epitaphs.

Cold Marble
A beautiful and informative site dedicated to the cemeteries of Baltimore.

Douglas Keister Photography
This guy is from my hometown... and he also takes some excellent photographs in a large variety of cemeteries. Well worth browsing! Oh, he also has a book.

Eclectic Raven
Anne Varnes has photographs of a number of cemeteries, primarily located in the Seattle area but there are a few from other parts of the world, on her website. Well worth a peek!

The Epitaph Browser
The Epitaph Browser is a collection of epitaphs from the graves of famous people. It makes for an entertaining browse!

Find-A-Grave
An amazing site that will help to locate the final resting spots of both the famous and non-famous. Essential reference for Tombstone Tourists!

Graveyards Of Chicago
An exhaustive site filled with information and lovely photographs of ... um... the graveyards of Chicago.

HumanRoadKill
A marvelous website dedicated to those ominous reminders of the ever-present spectre of death: roadside memorials. Most excellent!

King's Capuchins' Catacombs Page
A fascinating photographic study of the Capuchins Catacomb in Palermo, Italy where there are "thousands of corpses lined on the walls like paintings". My goodness - can I hire a home decorator to do that with my place?

Mausoleum Problems
A site dedicated to the problem of "foul-smelling, sticky brownish goo oozing from a leaky mausoleum crypt. This consists of decaying liquified body parts and embalming chemicals. This volatile mixture corrodes right through wooden, or even metal caskets." Lovely.

The Ossuary In Sedlec
"Where human bones become art." I must, must, must, must, MUST visit this delightful Czech church decorated with human bones one day. Soon!

The Page Of The Dead
A page devoted to photographs and stories of obscure characters in obscure tombs.

The Political Graveyard
A comprehensive listing of the final resting places of thousands of American politicians.

Save Our Cemeteries
Now, here's a site supporting a cause I can really get behind: the preservation of our cemeteries.

Taphophilia
Now, here's a website that definitely puts the FUN back in funeral! A repository of morbid curiosities. Hmmmm... I resemble that remark!

Tapholov - The Loves Of Tombs And Cemeteries
A lovely French page filled with charming dancing/gesturing skeleton graphics and many nice gothic images. Well worth a browse.

The Temple Of Azrael
A beautiful page full of cemetery memorabilia and photographs.

The Titanic Graves Of Halifax
Visit the final resting site of many of the Titanic's victims.

To Die For - A Celebration Of Cemeteries And The Lighter Side Of Death
This is a great site put together by a Cemetery Tourist with an eye for the most interesting graves and a sharing soul. Highly recommended!

The Two Burials Of John Paul Jones
A very interesting, illustrated site which explains the strange journey of John Paul Jones' corpse from beneath a fetid Paris street to an honored home at Annapolis.

Underground Paris
A virtual tour of the catacombs of Paris! Yippee!!!

A Very Grave Matter
Taphophiles of the World, Rejoice!! A Very Grave Matter is a most wonderous website! Dedicated to the olde burying grounds of Massachusetts, Maine, and New Hampshire, this is an absolutely enormous repository of gravestone images and information! Jenn Marcelais should be commended for this amazing service! A must-see!

Where The Stars Are Buried
An extremely helpful site that includes maps detailing where celebrities are buried in the Los Angeles area. A must-have for touring the area!


Ain't No Way To Go
A marvelous collection of grim but true demises. I just love the captivating skull graphics! Oh, the facts are pretty marvelous too...

Archive Of Strange Deaths
This is sort of similar to MFDJ - an archive of unusual demises. Great reading for sombre rainy days...

Brain Candy Trivia
If you're like me, and you know that you are, you'll especially enjoy the sections on "Bizarre Celebrity Suicides" and "Unusual Celebrity Deaths". Engrossing!

Celebrity Dead Pool
Keep an eye on this site to find out the latest of the "beautiful people turning to mulch". And you can play the game by guessing who will be next!

Circus Animal Attacks
A list of attacks by long-suffering circus animals, from the PETA website. Go, cat, go!!

The Darwin Awards
The ultimate collection(s) of stupid deaths on the net. Many morbidly mirthful moments are to be had reading through these illuminating archives. Not to be missed...

Dead Lawyers
Read all about the tragic and tragicomedy deaths of our most despised professionals.

Dead People Server
Now here's a useful site: "The Dead People Server is a database of interesting celebrities who are long dead or newly dead." You can solve many an argument with this one!

Dead Porn Stars
They came, they came, they died.

Dead Presidents
Manus Hand's hobby is to photograph himself in front of the graves of dead presidents. Sounds perfectly reasonable to me!

The Dead Rock Stars Club
A comprehensive listing of rock star deaths. "The Day The Music Died", indeed!

The Death List
This website performs the invaluable service of providing a list of the 50 Most Likely To Die celebrities for each year.

Deaths At Disneyland
A very sad commentary on human stupidity. How does one get oneself killed at "The Happiest Place on Earth" exactly? Find out here at the Disney Urban Legends reference page.

Departing Remarks
From the brilliant Adams Residence website comes this compelling list of the last words of noted famous and infamous individuals. I especially like Emily Dickinson's last words: "I must go in, the fog is rising." That's my Emily - poetic until the very end...

Dying Words Of Famous People
A great collection of last words, from the wonderful "Brain Candy" website.

FACEWeb
A fascinating collection of "at the job" accident reports. Those blue collar workers really know how to make a mess of things!

Find A Death
An addictive, absolutely breathtaking site which discusses celebrity deaths in great detail, including photographs of the sites where the deaths occurred and miscellaneous post-mortem pictures. Highly, highly recommended!

Goodbye!
The Journal Of Contemporary Obituaries. Need I say more?

The Last Word
A collection of final statements from condemned criminals. Absolutely fascinating... to the bitter end!

Last Words
A collection of famous lasts: last words of fictional and real characters, last stands, wills, and
obituaries. A fun read for the morbidly trivial minded.

OSHA - Fatal Facts Accident Reports
A collection of on the job accident reports that are perfect for the rubbernecker in all of us!

The Political Graveyard
This site catalogues the final resting spots of hundreds of politicians. Imagine the amount of bloating these corpses must have!

Riverside County Sheriff's Department Coroner's Press Releases
I personally think all sheriff/police departments out to have a site like this, don't you?

Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan - Death Notices
A page filled with death notices from Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan circa 1887. I think by reading a few of them you can see why I have such incredible enthusiasm for 19th century newspapers!

Where The Stars Died
An excellent guide to Hollywood celebrity death locations. Another must-have for touring Tinseltown.


AutopsyVideo.Com
The next time you're hankering for some graphic autopsy footage, why not check out the products at Autopsy Video.Com? "Bipolar Productions has been selling autopsy videos and dvds that we produced with the cooperation of the L.A. County Coroner's Office, among others. Our site is www.autopsyvideo.com and we've sold over 50,000 units since coming online in 2000."

Autopsy Zombie Staple Babies
Okay, if you thought Living Dead Dolls were cool (and they are), then you're gonna LOVE the unbelievably creepy cool Autopsy Zombie Staple Babies! I want them all... but they're only available by auction (the latest twisted creation is currently going for $227.50 on Ebay with two days left). Still, a perusal of the archive is definitely worth your time!

Bert & Bud's Vintage Coffins
The t-shirts and posters are nearly as cool as the coffins and urns at this quality establishment!

Bluelips.Com
A casket paperweight and chocolate caskets are my personal favorites on this site, but you can also get the complete Faces Of Death video collection, some nice posters, embalming materials, and some interesting morbid books as well. Banned from Ebay - you know that's gotta be a good sign!

The Bone Room
If you're like me - and I know many of you are - you've always wanted to have your own personal human conversation piece up on the mantel. Well, thanks to the Bone Room, here's your chance! You can purchase genuine human bones here, as well as all sorts of animal pieces 'n' parts.

Casket Furniture
You have to be rich to afford them, but these casket inspired additions to your home are fun to admire from afar, even for we dirt poor undead.

City Morgue Gift Shop
A mirthful collection of gifts for the morbidity enthusiast. I especially loved the shirts: "Always a pallbearer, never a corpse". Indeed!

Corpses For Sale
A wonderful site where you can purchase corpses, reproductions of witch death warrants, even a portrait of a corpse personalized especially for you. Wonderful!

Dapper Cadaver
Where, oh where, has Dapper Cadaver been all my life? From coffins and morgue equipment to freak show props and torture implements, if you want it and it's grim, chances are you can find it here! A fun browse guaranteed for all!

Deady Bears
Mutilated teddy bears? Sounds like a splendid gift idea to me!

Demon Kidz
More creepy dolls... only these ones are especially creepy because they look way too much like real babies! Shudder!!!

The Ed Gein Collection
A delightful "props and supplies" shop where you can by such "must-haves" as skull candles and bowls, corpses to put your candy in next Halloween, corpses to simply display about the house, and corpse lights, among other wonderful things. Really, you should go and check it out.

France Casting
France Casting makes museum quality replicas of bones with various anomalies. Surely you have room on your coffee table for a fetal cranium, a healed, displaced fractured humerus, or parietal bones with tertiary syphilis? I know I do! (Unfortunately, they are a bit expensive, so they will have to wait...)

Fright Catalog
The Halloween props are absolutely amazing (if a bit out of my price range), but they have lots of wonderful cheaper trinkets as well. Huge and amazing.

Funeral Consumers Alliance Gift Shop
Yeah, I know, who'd think to look here? But this little shop has a couple of wonderful Edward Gorey mugs (The Gashlycrumb Tinies and The Osbick Bird), as well as a great "panhandling near-corpse" t-shirt. And some interesting books as well. Simply marvelous!

Gorey Details
This is one of my FAVORITE shops on the internet. Brilliant stuff, with an emphasis on Edward Gorey... but there are some other gems here too. Highly recommended!

Gothic Rose Antiques
Simply the greatest antique store ever - specializing in morbid antiquities! I want EVERYTHING!!!

Grave Images
An excellent collection of gravestone and gargoyle t-shirts.

Gravestone Artwear
The greatest t-shirts ever made! Really!!

Human Skulls For Sale
Unfortunately, he's now retired, but at one time you could purchase a plethora of unusual skull specimens from this site - some of which are still pictured on the page. Skulls Unlimited is another supply house for your bone fetishes.

Los Angeles County Coroner's Office Gift Shop
What a marvelous gift shop! Where else can you get such delightful goods as toe tag key chains, body shaped post-its, Black Mariah and LA County Coroner t-shirts, body bags, and a mouse pad that says, "We're Dying For Your Business" on it? Now, where is that Visa card?

Madame Talbot's Victorian Lowbrow
Madame Talbot's artwork is amazing!! Darkly victorian black and white pen and ink drawings of the most delightfully morbid of subjects. Her Victorian mourning dolls are a revelation as well. Highly recommended!!

Made Her Think
Beautiful morbid jewelry with Day of the Dead and Victorian Mourning themes.

Necromance
Curios galore at this L.A. store which specializes in animal specimens. I can't say I like those items, however, as I must wonder how they are procured... and I'm assuming it's far from a gentle story. However, human skulls are available here as well, and lots of other fun things are found under "miscellaneous".

Pushin' Daisies
A "mortuary novelty shop" - and what a splendid one it is! Coffin shaped chocolates, mortuary videos, embalming equipment, hearse memorabilia, you name it. Putting the "fun" back in "funeral".

Satan's Sideshow
What a fantastic site! Serial killer dolls, t-shirts, Elizabeth Bathory clocks, Jeffrey Dahmer and Ed Gein aprons, etc. Well worth a browse!

Shaddow Domain
A wonderful gothic treasure chest full of such nifty items as "I Feed On The Flesh Of The Living... And I Vote!" stickers and skeleton champagne glasses. Well worth a browse!

SkinBag
Now, here's an interesting concept in high fashion: wearing your skin (moles, wrinkles, blemishes and all) on your sleeve! Because, after all, Gore + Chic = très Chic!

Skulls Unlimited International Inc.
Looking to purchase a real human skull, femur, coccyx, or pelvis? How about a vampire bat skull? A mounted piranha? Or an alien skull? Then, this is the shop for you. Unfortunately, you'll need a rather large bank account to purchase the coolest items...

Teardrop Memories
A wonderful collection of eclectic antique morbid trinkets can be found on this site. I especially like the old death masks.

Ugly Art
Ugly Shayla makes some lovely dolls - and some of them are even for sale!

UndergroundHumor.Com
Some excellent t-shirts highlight this site. My favorite is "They say that hell is hot, but is it humid? Because I can take the heat; it's the humidity I can't stand." So very true...

Vampire.co.uk
Looking for a perfectly demonic shirt to wear to your next concert? Check out the delightfully demonic duds available at Vampire.co.uk!

Westgate - The Original Source for Necromantic Art & Literature
Some of the most darkly beautiful paintings and sculptures I've ever seen are on this site. And most of them can be purchased as well. Start decorating!


Britain's Ghosts
This site showcases a number of beautiful old castles and ruins in Britain that are allegedly haunted. Oooh, how I wish I could go there right now!

Ghosts of the Prairie
The magnificent homepage of the American Ghost Society and Ghosts Of The Prairies. Probably the best hauntings website there is, and well worth your time and energy!

Haunted U.S.A.
An excellent collection of ghost lore from across the United States.

The Info Service's Haunted Listing
They search the internet so I don't have to! Yay. Lots of dead links though, but what can I expect from a site about ghosts?

The Moonlit Road
Here's a nice website that features "ghost stories and strange folktales of the American South, told by the region's most celebrated torytellers." This one has a twist in that you can either read the stories, or listen to them.

Real Haunted Houses
A collection of ghost stories from all over the world.

The Shadowlands
A huge collection of ghost stories and a near-comprehensive listing of allegedly haunted places. A great resource when venturing to a new town!


99 Rooms
An amazingly beautiful interactive website that combines urban exploration photographs from East Germany, creepy artwork and interactive flash animation. Brilliant.

Damaged Corpse
Françoise Duvivier is an absolutely amazing morbid artists who creates mesmerizingly disturbing collages, masks, and dolls. Creepy doesn't begin to describe some of this stuff!

Jessica Joslin
Incredibly strange and compelling artwork made from animal bones, antique hardware, glass eyes, and a variety of other materials.

Joel-Peter Witkin - Love & Redemption
The online version of a wonderful exhibit by the amazing photographer whose work is best described as "bizarre yet beautiful".

Joseph Seigenthaler
Joseph Seigenthaler's artwork is the perfect antidote to those who believe that the human body is beautiful. Blech!!!!!

Mark Ryden
One of my all-time favorite artists, Mark Ryden paints beautiful miniatures that juxtapose innocence with morbidity. Truly an artist for the ages.

Masks By Nina Barlow
These masks are amazing. I wish I had a few of them hanging around The Castle DeSpair!

Morbid Tendencies
Very strange but eerily beautiful organic artwork. (aka dead things)

Naoto Hattori
Delightfully disturbing and dark artwork. And a great URL to book (http://www.wwwcomcom.com).

Nico Claux - Eyes Of A Vampire
If portraits of serial killers is your bag, then this is your man! And the prices are reasonable too...

Paintings by nick denBoer
Nick creates some nifty morbid art!

Patricia Waller
Now, here's someone with AMAZING knitting skills!!! I hate knitted artwork, but I'd buy these in a second!

Phreeque.Com
A wonderfully freaky website for Elizabeth J. Anderson, an artist who makes wonderful replicas of freak show canvases. The website also includes an abundance of excellent information of freak show stars from the past. Highly recommended!

Prodigies
Here's the website of an artist who obviously has a great appreciation for the finer things in life. Like freaks!

Strange Dolls
Among the greatest dolls ever created. Honest.

Vomitus Maximus
Enjoy the sick, sick, sick world of R.S. Connett - Morbid Painter Extraordinaire!

Warren Criswell
Website of one of my favorite artists. This guy's paintings truly have that genuine "serial killer" kind of vibe to them - and I for one cannot resist them - especially the paintings of dark roads at night. Creepy Cool!



Anomalies Unlimited
Just a fascinating page full of miscellaneous eclectic wonders. In other words, the best kind of website there is!

Block Death: A Museum Of Horrors
Now, these are the kind of creations I liked to make with Legos!

The Bondage Files
From the pages of the San Francisco Examiner, here are some of the more bizarre and disturbing news stories of modern times. Articles with such irresistible titles as "Two Inmates Charged With Eating Fellow Prisoners," "Man Accused Of Putting Daughter In Microwave," and "Car Antenna Pierces Man's Brain" bring out the deranged voyeur in all of us.

BuryMeRight.Com
A dead funny commercial is the highlight of this page - for a company that will help your burial wishes be known and help supply information on burials in the UK. I haven't really investigated it too much so it may be a put-on, but it's definitely worth a look-see if just for the advertisement...

The Chamber: Canada's Darkest Magazine
Yes, a dark Canadian magazine. It was bound to happen someday!

Chopping Block
This has to be one of the most consistently hilarious (and morbid) comics on earth. Absolutely brilliant!!

The Dark Side Of The Net
An amazing list of links. Enough to keep any morbid, death-obsessed misfit happy for hours and hours!

Death and Dementia
A great collection of links organized into such categories as "Death and Disfigurement" and "Crime and Punishment".

The Death Clock
Here you can sit and watch the seconds of your sad, pathetic, meaningless existence click away as you slide helplessly toward complete oblivion. Fun for the whole family!

The Gallery Of Monster Toys
What an amazing collection of vintage monster toys! Ah, if only I had the time and income and luck to amass such a collection...

Grim Rides Funeral Car Club
The lovely website of a marvelous SF Bay Area based hearse society. I've always wanted to own a hearse... obviously!... and I can fantasize all about it while looking at pictures of all the fabulous hearses here!

Grim Toys
An online museum dedicated to funeral car toys, model kits, and related spook stuff - brought to you by the hearse-lovers at Grim Rides. Fun, fun, fun!

The Human Marvels
"The Human Marvels" is a website celebrating "peculiar people". Now, that's a cause I can get behind!

Medieval Macabre
A lovely collection of "supernatural and fantastic imagery" of the ever-creepy Middle Ages. Devils, Demons, and Witches galore!

ShysCyberChamber.Com
I'm excited to see that Shy's Cyber Chamber is back! This is a wonderful site full of all sorts of morbid odds and ends, and must be explored at leisure. Trust me - you won't regret your visit here.

The Smoking Gun
This is a great site full of documents that you get the feeling you should not be allowed to access... but thank goodness for informants! How else would you get to view Dana Plato's autopsy report, Malcolm X's bullet-riddled diary, a memo detailing the burial at sea of the casket used to transport JFK's body to Washington from Dallas, and Eric Harris' hysterical violent web page ramblings, amongst other morbid and not-so-morbid fascinations. Essential!

Stick Figure Death Theatre
Incredible animation of horribly disturbing scenes of chaos, mayhem, and dismemberment! You have been forewarned!

The Young Man's Book Of Amusement
A most splendid book from 1853 entitled "The Young Man's Book Of Amusement". This is a collection of "experiments" for kids - many of which could potentially result in lethal consequences. For example, you can make "Very Beautiful Artificial Petrifactions" by using a substance that the rest of us know as corrosive sulfuric acid. Or make an Electric Kite - just like Ben Franklin! Yes, this sounds precisely like the kind of book *I* would write for children.

 




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