{"id":334,"date":"2024-12-20T18:25:57","date_gmt":"2024-12-20T18:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theophanesavery.com\/book-reviews\/?p=334"},"modified":"2024-12-20T18:25:57","modified_gmt":"2024-12-20T18:25:57","slug":"morbid-curiosities-collections-of-the-uncommon-and-bizarre-by-paul-gambino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theophanesavery.com\/book-reviews\/2024\/12\/20\/morbid-curiosities-collections-of-the-uncommon-and-bizarre-by-paul-gambino\/","title":{"rendered":"Morbid Curiosities; Collections of the Uncommon and Bizarre by Paul Gambino"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ah, yet another day, yet another weird book, this one lovingly brought to me by a fellow magpie. And what a charmer it is with a luscious hard cover and big glossy photos! It&#8217;s more than just a photo archive of some of the weirdest collections people have it&#8217;s also interviews of those lovely weirdoes mixed in with fun facts about their favorite pieces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This book goes through it all &#8211; gas mask for your horse, check, taxidermied two-headed calf, check, skulls of EVERY kind, check, terrifying antique medical devices, check, letters and art from serial killers, check, a snuff box with an illustration of a dead child?! Check. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I learned so much and felt a little better about having my own much less impressive curios cabinet. If you would like to take a gander through these whimsically macabre collections the book can be found here <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4016unA\">Morbid Curiosities; Collections of the Uncommon and Bizarre<\/a>. (And yes, since I am a starving author myself I have partnered with Amazon and get a small commission every time someone clicks this link and buys the book so please do so and make TWO authors deliriously happy!) <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A glossy and beautifully macabre book for your most unusual coffee table. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":353,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[303,14,12,301,302,297,294,296,292,10,293,32,304,300,299,298,295],"class_list":["post-334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-antiques","tag-book","tag-book-review","tag-collections","tag-collectors","tag-creepy","tag-curiosity","tag-freaky","tag-hardcover","tag-history","tag-macabre","tag-mystery","tag-nonfiction","tag-photographs","tag-photography","tag-spooky","tag-weird","wpcat-1-id"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/theophanesavery.com\/book-reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/12\/MorbidCuriosities.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paT6Hu-5o","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theophanesavery.com\/book-reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theophanesavery.com\/book-reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theophanesavery.com\/book-reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theophanesavery.com\/book-reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theophanesavery.com\/book-reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theophanesavery.com\/book-reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":354,"href":"https:\/\/theophanesavery.com\/book-reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions\/354"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theophanesavery.com\/book-reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theophanesavery.com\/book-reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theophanesavery.com\/book-reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theophanesavery.com\/book-reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}