The cover and title led me to believe that the "morbid" part of the title referred to a gothic sensibility. What else to expect from a collection featuring a woman's corpse holding flowers?

After reading the introduction and a few of the essays, it was clear that the stories weren't necessarily of the dark, "gothic" variety--the stories here are about more than cemeteries. The stories are mostly personal anecdotes about odd things in their lives, or what they think are odd. Unfortunately, the stories aren't always as unusual as they're purported to be (or what the subtitle, "True Stories of the Unsavory, Unwise, Unorthodox and Unusual", seems to promise the reader).

People are blogging much stranger things every day online--not always at the level of quality of these essays, that's for sure, but still...if a collection of magazine essays is titled "unsavory" and "unorthodox", one would imagine much weirder things than what you'll actually find in Morbid Curiosity...

Recommended for fans of the now-defunct magazine that the essays are pulled from; others may want to sample one or two of the essays before buying this collection to see if it fits your description of "morbid."