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One of the best-known zines is Murder Can Be Fun, a death-and-disaster journal published by John Marr since 1985. Meticulously researched at libraries and from his own collection of more than 10,000 books, Murder Can Be Fun presents the choicest and weirdest anecdotes to a bemused and often goggle-eyed readership. — V. Vale, from Zines, Volume 2

Reviews

Murder Can Be Fun #12: The Art of Murder

John Marr

Wallace/Qualtrough, cannibal Sawney Beane, murder connoisseur Thomas de Quincey, plus the 1989 San Francisco quake, book reviews and so on.

Publisher: Murder Can Be Fun
Pamphlet: 32 pages
Illustrated

Murder Can Be Fun #13: Death at Disneyland

John Marr

Plus sex criminal/train wrecker Sylvestre Matuschka, Munich street car/airplane collision, Harry Stephen Keeler, book reviews, etc.

Publisher: Murder Can Be Fun
Pamphlet: 32 pages
Illustrated

Murder Can Be Fun #15: Mormon Cult Killings

John Marr

Plus postal multicide update, the best kiddy ransom kidnappings, ‘70s confession magazines, book reviews, etc.

Publisher: Murder Can Be Fun
Pamphlet: 32 pages
Illustrated

Murder Can Be Fun #16: Zoo Deaths!

John Marr

A look at what happens when man meets animal in cage plus Lindbergh kidnapping revisionism, the Journal of Forensic Sciences and other fun stuff

Publisher: Murder Can Be Fun
Pamphlet: 48 pages
Illustrated

Murder Can Be Fun #17: Naughty Children, 1650-1960:

John Marr

Tales of some of the naughtiest children ever, all from the days when kids supposedly were seen and not heard. Train wreckers, kidnappers, child killers—you name it, the little monsters did it.

Publisher: Murder Can Be Fun
Pamphlet: 48 pages
Illustrated

The Murder Can Be Fun 1997 Datebook

John Marr

Special 10th anniverary edition, with the best dates culled from a decade of datebooks.

Publisher: Murder Can Be Fun
Pamphlet: 64 pages
Illustrated