JIM GOAD

Life Never Ends Well / The Headache Factory (2-for-1)

$22

Life Never Ends Well

5½ x 8½, 370 pages

In painstaking and often painfully funny detail, this book focuses on 500 cases where people died in ironic, unusual, or outright horrifying ways. Whether they died on roller coasters, in wood chippers, by shark bite, answering a Craigslist ad, while texting, in the course of masturbating, or simply because they laughed too hard, this book ties them all together in one big bloody red ribbon. You’ll read about severed penises, concert tragedies, kids who killed their parents, moms who killed their kids, women who murdered their husbands, couples who killed for fun, and felonious Santa Clauses. As this book illustrates in lurid detail, death is never fun—but it doesn’t have to be boring.

Chapter titles:

The 25 Most Supremely Ironic Deaths In World History
12 Tragic Stories Of People Who Died Or Were Injured During Sex
13 People Who Died From Masturbating
‘Goodbye Mama’ And 15 Other Chilling Text Messages Sent Or Received Right Before Someone Died
18 Former Beauty Queens Who Met Tragic Ends
17 Former Homecoming Queens Whose Lives Went Seriously Wrong
10 People Who Literally Died From Laughter
19 Moms Who Killed Their Kids
Killer Kids: 14 Cases Of Children Murdering Their Parents
Horror At The Amusement Park: 13 Gruesome Roller-Coaster Deaths
Blood In The Surf: 13 Insanely Brutal Shark Attacks
Blood On The Tracks: 10 People Who Died After Being Pushed In Front Of Subway Trains
13 Couples Who Fell In Love And Then Started Killing People
30 Convicted Craigslist Killers
20 Bloggers Who Were Murdered
12 People Who Survived Suicide Attempts While Accidentally Killing Others
The Kiss Of The ‘Black Widow’: 17 Women Who Murdered Their Husbands (And Others) For Cash
50 States, 50 Babies, 50 Dumpsters
A Latin Holocaust? 13 Hispanic Workers Who Were Killed By Wood Chippers
A Hard Way To Die: 17 Viagra Horror Stories
10 Of The Most Horrifying Concert Tragedies In History
HIV Terrorism: 13 Cases Where People Deliberately Infected Others
Have You Seen Me? 14 Unsolved Missing-Children Cases
12 Harrowing Online-Dating Encounters That Ended In Murder
20 Of The Most Ghastly Suicide Methods Ever
The Killer I Knew: 14 Shockingly Nice Things People Remember About Murderers
15 Teen Bullying Cases With Tragic Ends
The ‘Smiley Face Killer’ Theory That Connects 40 College Students’ Deaths
10 Killers Who Targeted College Women
23 Women Who Severed Their Partner’s Penis For Cheating
Teenage Bloodsport: 15 Tragic Stories Of High School Athletes Who Died Playing Football
13 Brutal Halloween Murders
10 Men Who Committed Felonies While Dressed As Santa Claus
Death By Snow: 14 Ways That Winter Weather Can Kill You
15 Flabbergasting Crimes Involving Pizza
Police: “Hot Car Death” Dad Was Sexting As His Son Was Dying
10 Grimly Ironic Texting-While-Driving Car Crashes
Why You Should Never Get The Word “MURDER” Tattooed On Your Neck
18 Famous People The Press Mistakenly Declared Dead
6 Hair-Raising Letters From Actual Stalkers
800 Baby Skeletons Allegedly Found In Irish Septic Tank
13 Spooky & Unexplained Disappearances
10 Cases Where Prosthetic Limbs Were Used As Weapons
20 Wonderfully Inspirational Quotes From Killers And Psychopaths
Snuffies: 18 Of The Most Horrifying Selfie-Related Tragedies

The Headache Factory

5½ x 8½, 164 pages

If Andy Warhol could have anticipated the Internet, he would have said it’s where everyone will be stalked for at least 15 minutes. Jim Goad describes himself as “a lowly neutrino in the vast universe of celebrity,” yet he attracts a certain breed of demented fan that treats him as if he’s the second coming of Christ—that is, until they feel he’s somehow snubbed them, at which point he transforms into Satan. The Headache Factory documents Jim’s extensive experiences fending off fans who morphed into stalkers. By turns terrifying and amusing, the book demonstrates how social media enables the antisocial to reach out and touch anyone they want—even if their target doesn’t want to be touched.