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Morbid Curiosity quietly expires with final issue

Written by DeadGirl
Wednesday, 21 June 2006
Washington Post Wednesday, June 21, 2006 America's morbidly curious community is in mourning: Morbid Curiosity magazine has published its final issue. Morbid Curiosity, founded in 1997, was frequently gross, disgusting, perverse -- and very funny if you prefer your humor in a decidedly dark hue. It was not for the squeamish, which is probably why its circulation hovered around 3,000. Founder Loren Rhoads, 42, is a San Francisco writer of horror fiction and essays about her hobby, which is visiting graveyards. Over the years, the magazine published accounts of giving birth, buying a gun, having an operation, getting mugged, getting busted, getting abducted by aliens, cross-dressing, visiting mom in the insane asylum, attempting suicide, kicking heroin, drinking blood and committing necrophilia. Rhoads had no way to check their accuracy. All she could do was limit the financial incentive for fabrication by paying nothing and publishing the ones she liked best. "It really does amaze me the things people will admit to doing," she said. "People will admit to the strangest things." "It was fun while it lasted," she said in a phone interview. "But I have other projects." http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/06/21/DDGJ6JH0JS1.DTL

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taphophilia (taf′ō-fil′ē-ă)

ORIGIN:
From the Greek words taphos, meaning "tomb" or "sepulcher" and philia, meaning "attraction or affinity to something, in particular the love or obsession with something"

DEFINITION: 1. An excessive interest in graves and cemeteries. 2. A love or fondness for funerals, graves, and cemeteries. 3. In psychiatry, a morbid attraction to graves and cemeteries