2024 BITF Horror Reading Challenge - hosted by thaatswhatsheread

Creepy Non-Fiction
Try a book about morbid subject material, a biography of a prominent horror figure,  a book looking at horror films, or whatever floats your boat. 
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In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

In Cold Blood

Truman Capote

343 pages • first pub 1965 (editions)

nonfiction classics true crime dark mysterious tense slow-paced
Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival by Joe Simpson

Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival

Joe Simpson

216 pages • first pub 1988 (editions)

nonfiction memoir travel adventurous inspiring tense medium-paced
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann

The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

David Grann

8 hours, 28 minutes • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction history true crime adventurous dark informative medium-paced
Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America's Cemeteries by Greg Melville

Over My Dead Body: Unearthing the Hidden History of America's Cemeteries

Greg Melville

8 hours, 42 minutes • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction history informative reflective medium-paced
The Facemaker: A Visionary Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I by Lindsey Fitzharris

The Facemaker: A Visionary Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I

Lindsey Fitzharris

336 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction history emotional informative reflective medium-paced
Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus by Monica Murphy, Bill Wasik

Rabid: A Cultural History of the World's Most Diabolical Virus

Monica Murphy, Bill Wasik

275 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative slow-paced
What Follows Is True: Crescent Hotel by Sean Fitzgibbon

What Follows Is True: Crescent Hotel

Sean Fitzgibbon

232 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction graphic novel history
The Woman Who Could Not Forget: Iris Chang Before and Beyond The Rape of Nanking: A Memoir by Ying-Ying Chang

The Woman Who Could Not Forget: Iris Chang Before and Beyond The Rape of Nanking: A Memoir

Ying-Ying Chang

400 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction biography history emotional informative reflective slow-paced
Behind the Horror: Real Stories Behind the Big Screen's Greatest Screams by Lee Mellor

Behind the Horror: Real Stories Behind the Big Screen's Greatest Screams

Lee Mellor

9 hours, 36 minutes • first pub 2020 (editions) user-added

nonfiction art history true crime dark informative medium-paced
Lay Them to Rest: On the Road with the Cold Case Investigators Who Identify the Nameless by Laurah Norton

Lay Them to Rest: On the Road with the Cold Case Investigators Who Identify the Nameless

Laurah Norton

13 hours, 20 minutes • first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction science true crime dark emotional informative medium-paced