Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Links: Morbidity
Admit it—you’re really a sick little person. You laugh at dead baby jokes, you like the goriest horror flicks, and you rubberneck at accident sites. How do I know this? Well, you did click on this link. And while you might be too embarrassed to indulge your gruesome nature out in the harsh real world, you can certainly get your kicks from a little digital rubbernecking. That’s what I do.
General Grimness
- The Asylum Eclectica - Horrors, oddities, and the infamous “Morbid Fact du Jour!” mailing list.
- Dark Side of the Net - A bulging coffin of links to every grim and Gothic site on the Web.
- Rotten.com - Just as horrid (and unsafe for work) as the name implies.
Crime and Punishment
- The Casebook of Jack the Ripper - All Saucy Jack, all the time. Go, read, freak the hell out.
- Crime Library - Detailed articles and stories on infamous crimes, both past and present. Creeeepy...
Law Enforcement Databases
- The Doe Network - Unsolved disappearances, unidentified bodies... it doesn’t get any eerier than this.
Shipwrecks (and Titanica)
- Encyclopedia Titanica - Everything you ever wanted to know about the Titanic disaster.
- Titanic Inquiry Project - All—yes, all—of the transcripts from both British and American disaster inquiries, available online for free. (And I’m not just plugging it because I designed the layout—honest!)
Disasters
- Triangle Factory Fire - Extensive info on the terrible 1911 factory fire.
