Product Description: A gruesome and grisly trip through the past, Killer History explores the tradition, customs and fascinating stories that pertain to death, including burial customs, weapons, capital punishment and epidemics.Some kids are natural bookworms and others you have to chase down with a book...read more

Over the course of history men and women have lived and died. In fact, getting sick and dying can be a big, ugly mess-especially before the modern medical care that we all enjoy today. How They Croaked relays all the gory details of how nineteen world figures gave up the ghost. For example:It is believed that Henry VIII's remains exploded within his coffin while lying in state. Doctors "treated" George Washington by draining almost 80 ounces of blood before he finally kicked the bucket. Right before Beethoven wrote his last notes, doctors drilled a hole in his stomach without any pain medication.Readers will be interested well past the final curtain, and feel lucky to live in a world with painkillers, X-rays, soap, and 911.

Product Description: A darkly funny collection of stories about bizarre, ridiculous and completely unexpected fates.Dreadful Fates is that very rare combination --- a book all about death that gets funnier with every page. There's even a chapter about people who laughed themselves into the grave!You can also read about unusual funerals and curious coffins, murders and executions, fatal mistakes and ironic fates...read more