The True Crime Book Publishing Industry Miscellaneous Essay
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Anthropologists, sociologists and psychologists, students of the human mind, culture, and behaviour, have written volumes upon volumes on this phenomenon. Vampires, ghouls and zombies, to name but three, were a product of this phenomenon, or fascination with the macabre.2 Maintaining that this tendency is as old as humanity itself, that each and every culture during any given historical stage, had embraced the macabre, the dangerous and the frightening, scholars have argued it reflective of two innately human interests.