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Description edit
THE DEFINITIVE DOSSIER ON HISTORY’S MOST HEINOUS! Hollywood’s make-believe maniacs like Jason, Freddy, and Hannibal Lecter can’t hold a candle to real life monsters like John Wayne Gacy, Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, and scores of others who have terrorized, tortured, and terminated their way... read more
Ridiculously Simplified Synopsis edit
Characters/People edit
- Jeffrey Dahmer: Add a description of this character.
- Clark
- John Wayne Gacy
- Ted Bundy
- David Berkowitz
- Haigh
- Jack
- John Douglas
- Chikatilo
- Dennis Nilsen
- Mccafferty
- Sam
- Desalvo
- Charles Manson
- Tom
- Cole
- Shawcross
- Robert Ressler
- Eddie
- Smith
- Seda
- Schaefer
- Albert Fish
- Earle Leonard Nelson
- Gary Heidnik
- Alfred Hitchcock
- H. H. Holmes
- Manuel
- Henry Lee Lucas
- Jane Toppan
- Mullin
- Armstrong
- Pomeroy
- Eyler
- Carl Panzram
- Toole
- Peter Sutcliffe
- Thomas Harris
- Birnie
Setting & Locations edit
- America
- Chicago
- London
- Southern California
- England
- Florida
- New York City
- Texas
- Born
- Wisconsin
- San Francisco
- Europe
- United States
- Los Angeles
- Maryland
- Ohio
- Washington
- Virginia
- Atlanta
- Berdella
- Kansas City
- Indiana
- New Jersey
- Ireland
- Canada
- Swango
- Australia
- France
- Seattle
- Boston
- Whitechapel
- Illinois
- Connecticut
- Hollywood
- Paris
- Philadelphia
- Plainfield
- Georgia
- Kentucky
- Manhattan
- Sydney
- Germany
- Long Island
- Scotland
- Sacramento
First Sentence edit
There are people who genuinely believe that serial killers are a strictly contemporary phenomenon, a symptom of something horribly amiss in the moral fabric of modern American society.
Table of Contents edit
(Each section has many sub-chapters)
One: What it Means
Two: Who They Are
Three: A History of Serial Murder
Four: Gallery of Evil--Ten American Monsters
Five: Sex and the Serial Killer
Six: Why They Kill
Seven: Evil in Action
Eight: How it Ends
Nine: Serial Killer Culture
Series & Lists edit
This book is in True Crime: Serial Murder. (community list)
This book is in True Crime: Anthologies. (community list)
Authors & Contributors edit
- Harold Schechter (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2003
ISBN: 0345465660
Page Count: 432
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2003
ISBN: 0345465660
Page Count: 432
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 364.1523
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