Bursting with gruesome facts - both modern and historical - about crime and punishment, imprisonment and torture, and death by a stomach-churning range of causes.
Customer Reviews:
Not so macabreApril 18, 2008 2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The title is a bit misleading as I've found this book to be more of collection of random and rather vague tidbits of bizarre (and a few space-filling) facts. It is interesting, just not nearly as dark as the title/description would have you believe. (i.e. I didn't find the fact describing the number of bridges between the mouth of River Thames and Teddingtonto be that particularly "horrifying"). I you want something that goes into a lot more detail, I'd highly recommend that you check out another of Abbott's books: "The Book of Execution: An Encyclopedia of Methods of Judicial Execution..."
