Morbid

The Butcher Legacy

Alaina Urquhart

The hosts announced that the book was releasing on August 11th and praised it as their favorite in the series so far.

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Butcher Legacy is coming out. And we're going on tour. It's coming out August 11th. And we'll be at Unlikely Story that night. It's the concluding chapter in this trilogy. It's really good. I think you'll love it. So go ahead and preorder that. It's my favorite one in the series thus far.

Ninth House (Ninth House Series, 1)

Leigh Bardugo

One of the hosts said they had just started reading the book and described it as a spooky darkacademia fantasy that felt right for the summer.

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I'm starting to read The Ninth House. It's like a spooky fantasy, dark academia fantasy. I think Aiden recommended it to me. It feels right, cozy, dark academia, paranormal and fun.

The Season of Sinking

Daphne Woolsoncroft

They mentioned that Daphne Wolsencroft had just released this new book and expressed excitement to start reading it.

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She was nice enough to send me and Elena her new book, which I think just came out. So I think it's available. Season of Sinking. I'm really excited to start it.

Night Watcher

Daphne Woolsoncroft

They recalled having read Wolsencroft's earlier book Night Watcher and gave it a strong recommendation.

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I read her book Night Watcher and it was really good. 10 out of 10 recommend.

Preacher's Girl

Jim Schutze

The hosts noted that Schutz's book reported the arsenic level found in Dwight Moore as the highest ever recorded in a living human being.

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According to author Jim Schutz, who again will link his book in the show notes, it was the most arsenic that had ever been found in any living human being in the history of the hospital.

Mass Murderers (True Crime)

Time-Life Books

The book was cited as a reference source providing information about mass murderers.

Murder in Greenwich

Mark Fuhrman

The episode noted that Furman's book was published in 1998 and that it named a suspect, influencing public interest and prompting a grandjury investigation.

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In the spring of 1998, Furman's book, Murder in Greenwich, Who Killed Martha Moxley, was published.

Of Mice and Men

John Steinbeck

One of the hosts mentioned the novel while joking about the name George, saying it made them think of "Of Mice and Men."

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I was going to say, is it even going to be funny? For some reason, when I said George, I just thought of mice and men. I'm tapping out.

The Perfect Father

John Glatt

The book was listed in the episode's reference section as a source detailing the Chris Watts case.

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Glatt, John. 2020. The Perfect Father: The True Story of Chris Watts, His All-American Family, and a Shocking Murder.

Magi

Shinobu Ohtaka

The hosts said Kurt Rowlett wrote about the bleeding house in his book Labyrinth 13, noting he interviewed Minnie Winston after the mysterious blood incident.

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Now, another writer who got involved in the case is Kurt Rowlett. He writes about the bleeding house in his book, Labyrinth 13, True Tales of the Occult Crime and Conspiracy. He actually got the chance to interview Minnie Winston a while after that night in September when all the blood just appeared.

Winnie the Pooh

A. A. Milne

It was mentioned that baby Jessica was singing verses from "Winnie the Pooh" while she was trapped, showing the book's presence in the rescue narrative.

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She could be heard singing verses of Winnie the Pooh to herself.

Inside the Well

Lance Lunsford

The hosts cited Lunsford's book as a source for details about the well's condition and its capping, indicating they relied on it for factual background.

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According to Lunsford, and these are people that will obviously be linked in the show notes, accounts vary on whether the well opening had been covered with a rock or a flower pot.