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Death Scenes

Book by Katherine Dunn

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Sep 25, 2026

Sam RichardGUEST
7:44
And of her nonfiction, the only thing that I can recall is.
Sam RichardGUEST
7:47
that I've read is she did the introduction to a book that Farrell House put out in the might even be late 90s, if not early aughts called Death Scenes, which is a photo book that is literally a 1930s to 1960 L.A. County detective's scrapbook of photos that he collected.
Sam RichardGUEST
8:16
And the apocryphal story is that he had been saving this and amassing all of this stuff during his time as a... as a cop and when he died um it got donated to like a thrift store and someone found it and brought it to the publisher brought it to adam parfrey at apocalypse or at a at a feral house and was like this yo like this is insane and they ended up publishing it and with publishing it they had catherine dunn write an introduction to it And I even if I wrote it's been a while since I've looked through it.
Sam RichardGUEST
8:55
It's pretty brutal shit, to be honest, but it's fascinating.

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