Eric G Wilson and the morbid

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/morbid-curiosities/201111/the-moral-the-morbid 

Everyone loves a good train wreck. We are enamored of ruin. Our secret and ecstatic wish: Let it all fall down.Why? Does this macabre propensity merely reflect humanity's most lurid tendencies? Or might this grimmer side produce unexpected virtues?

Morbid fascination really DOES exist: Study finds we are physically compelled to watch gory scenes - even if they disgust us

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2657163/Morbid-fascination-really-DOES-exist-Study-finds-physically-compelled-watch-gory-scenes-disgust-us.html