Morbid Fascination or not???

[Lulabubble_x]

I love reading true life/true crime such as Dave Pelzer's 'A Boy Called it' etc and was once told that I have a "Morbid Fascination" and thats why I read this kind of material. Is this something to worry about or jus a technical term for people that read such books?

I have just told a friend about a new book I bought called 'Dont tell Mummy' and she looked mortified that I would read about such things???

Surely I am not the only one because some of the books I read are best sellers???

I am respectable, middle class, working mum - so nothing wierd or wonderful I just find the reads interesting and they also open my eyes to what actually goes on in this world outside of my warm, cosy comfortable life.

I would appreciate anyones comments...

[devilwoman]

no you're not morbid, i too love these kind of books, my hubby laughs at me cos he says why make yourself miserable by readinng this stuff. its not miserable i love to read about human courage and survuval, it helps me to appreciate everything i have, ie family health love ect, you sound like a woman after my own heart. i've just read my best friends girl. and i've read just about every tory hayden book going, love her. you carry on reading girl take no notice of anyone else

[Lulabubble_x]

Thanx devilwoman I was starting to think (after years and years) that something was wrong!!! This world has gone ad hasnt it.

One Child is brilliant isnt it.

[B00]

Agree with devilwoman here.

There's obviously a market for the books, I love them too, otherwise there wouldn't be so many of them out there. We're obviously not on our own!

[mountainboo]

My partner gets angry at me for reading true crime stories. I've read about people such as Ted Bundy and Jefery Dahmer and also the awful moors murders. Although I think these people's crimes are unspeakable it's interesting to find out what goes on in their heads, I bet they are all similar in some ways. I'm not the only one that reads the above am I?

[devilwoman]

yeh one child is brilliant , have you read the sequel , tigers child yet? i'm reading her new book at the mo its called beautiful child, its lovely.

[mountainboo]

Whats 'don't tell mummy' about?

[hobsonbear]

i love books about crime, especially serial killers! also horror books and films, especially zombies. i do have a morbid fascination and my work colleages think i'm strange! but, hey, i'm a forty year old goth who works in a public library so what do they know?

[shammydodger]

I used to have quite a library of this sort of stuff. It was fascinating and rather quaint(?) to read about the likes of the Ratcliffe Highway murders, Fanny Adams, Crippen, the many arsenic poisoners of the 19th century. The distance of time made it less disturbing. But it was a different story reading about the modern day killers such as Heidnik, Bundy, Gacy and others. I ended up quite depressed and questioning my own motives for my interest in them. I ended up throwing the whole lot in the skip, except the stuff on Jack the Ripper, which I keep if only for the parlour-game aspect of trying to solve the riddle.

Morbid fascination? Probably. But is that necessarily abhorrent?

[missjef]

im 18 and i love reading serial killer books, which my mum always said is a morbid fascination, and my friends just think im weird.
i just think its fascinating really, how people can be so different and what makes people tick, and what can lead someone to murder.

[spanner7853]

I think everyone is intrigued as to what goes on behind closed doors. I read 'A child called IT' and i couldn't stop reading it because anthough this sort of thing does happen you cant quite believe it's that horrific.

I am really interested in things like true crime and Jack the Ripper, unsolved crimes but it's not what I call being morbid. Just curious.