Author: Michael McGouirk
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0557036739
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
The complete "Tales of Madness and Depravity" collection. Includes From the Pen of walter Jolly, Followers of the Stone, The Crippled House, The Disappearance of Arthur Beaumont, Of Shadows and Dreams, A Caller in the Night, and many, many more!
Tales of Madness and Depravity:
Author: Michael McGouirk
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0557036739
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
The complete "Tales of Madness and Depravity" collection. Includes From the Pen of walter Jolly, Followers of the Stone, The Crippled House, The Disappearance of Arthur Beaumont, Of Shadows and Dreams, A Caller in the Night, and many, many more!
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0557036739
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
The complete "Tales of Madness and Depravity" collection. Includes From the Pen of walter Jolly, Followers of the Stone, The Crippled House, The Disappearance of Arthur Beaumont, Of Shadows and Dreams, A Caller in the Night, and many, many more!
Inside the Cult
Author: Marc Breault
Publisher: Signet Book
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Only a person who lived this story--forced marriages, rapes, beatings, torturous rules of behavior--could tell it. Marc Breault is such a person. Once Koresh's right-hand man, Breault broke free of that hold to escape and survive. Now he and a reporter who risked his life to interview Koresh inside the compound join to take you on an unforgettable journey into the mind of the man who bears responsibility for the deaths of his followers.
Publisher: Signet Book
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Only a person who lived this story--forced marriages, rapes, beatings, torturous rules of behavior--could tell it. Marc Breault is such a person. Once Koresh's right-hand man, Breault broke free of that hold to escape and survive. Now he and a reporter who risked his life to interview Koresh inside the compound join to take you on an unforgettable journey into the mind of the man who bears responsibility for the deaths of his followers.
The Professor and the Prostitute
Author: Linda Wolfe
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 149763704X
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
Acclaimed true-crime journalist Linda Wolfe presents the chilling case of a college professor who bludgeoned to death the prostitute he loved—plus eight other true stories that expose the psychological forces that drive seemingly respectable people to commit violent, unexpected crimes A professor at Tufts University School of Medicine, a suburban husband, and father of three, William Douglas secretly frequented Boston’s Combat Zone, a world of pimps, pushers, and porn shops. One night in 1982 he met twenty-year-old prostitute and former art student Robin Benedict, with whom he began a torrid affair that would end in murder. With the revealing psychological insights that made her previous books such riveting character studies, Wolfe depicts the catastrophic results of Douglas’s living out his secret love fantasies and the complex police investigation that brought the professor to justice. Among the eight shorter true-crime stories included in this volume is the case of the notorious Marcus twins, Manhattan gynecologists and drug addicts who were found dead together in an Upper East Side apartment. Wolfe also takes readers into the gay and transsexual clubs of 1980s New York for a twisted story of love and murder, and to the Texas suburbs, where a privileged fourteen-year-old boy takes a semiautomatic to his parents one sweltering July morning.
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 149763704X
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
Acclaimed true-crime journalist Linda Wolfe presents the chilling case of a college professor who bludgeoned to death the prostitute he loved—plus eight other true stories that expose the psychological forces that drive seemingly respectable people to commit violent, unexpected crimes A professor at Tufts University School of Medicine, a suburban husband, and father of three, William Douglas secretly frequented Boston’s Combat Zone, a world of pimps, pushers, and porn shops. One night in 1982 he met twenty-year-old prostitute and former art student Robin Benedict, with whom he began a torrid affair that would end in murder. With the revealing psychological insights that made her previous books such riveting character studies, Wolfe depicts the catastrophic results of Douglas’s living out his secret love fantasies and the complex police investigation that brought the professor to justice. Among the eight shorter true-crime stories included in this volume is the case of the notorious Marcus twins, Manhattan gynecologists and drug addicts who were found dead together in an Upper East Side apartment. Wolfe also takes readers into the gay and transsexual clubs of 1980s New York for a twisted story of love and murder, and to the Texas suburbs, where a privileged fourteen-year-old boy takes a semiautomatic to his parents one sweltering July morning.
From the Pen of Walter Jolly and Other Tales of Horror
Author: Michael McGouirk
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1411675428
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
paperback and e-book. a collection of short horror stories by Michael McGouirk. includes gunnar hilligross, followers of the stone, of shadows and dreams, and from the pen of walter jolly
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1411675428
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
paperback and e-book. a collection of short horror stories by Michael McGouirk. includes gunnar hilligross, followers of the stone, of shadows and dreams, and from the pen of walter jolly
Mutoko Madness
Author: Angus Shaw
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 0797454934
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
How do you behave in a poker game with a genocidal murderer? General Mohammed Siad Barre of Somalia had a revolver lying beside his overflowing ashtray on the baize card table. Dictators bully and cheat, not only at cards. Field Marshal General Idi Amin Dada of Uganda, fleeing his overthrow, abandoned his mansion on Kololo Hill. Amin’s mansion showed us his madness, his vanity, his love of the cartoon characters Mickey Mouse, Goofy, Popeye and Olive Oil, and his hypochondria – the bathroom contained more medicine than a chemist’s shop. On their trips to African summitry, Iraq’s Saddam Hussein and Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi, worldly yet fanatical, were an enigma. Yasser Arafat and King Hassan of Morocco were diminutive men, but charming in meetings face-to-face. Arafat was full of bonhomie as he tapped the pistol on his belt. Angus Shaw, an award-winning international journalist, was born in Southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe. In this brutally honest memoir, he tells of friendship, joy and pain, of lies, of moral decay, and of sex, drink and drugs, as he journeys through seven blood-steeped African wars, culminating in that pinnacle of madness and depravity, the genocide in Rwanda. His story is peopled by cruel dictators and warlords, fighters whose dreams of freedom went unconsummated, great statesmen like the icon of peace Nelson Mandela, the jet-setting Pope John Paul II making pilgrimages to Africa, and idols of movies and music who visited his beleaguered Paradise of Fools. Published by Boundary Books
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 0797454934
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
How do you behave in a poker game with a genocidal murderer? General Mohammed Siad Barre of Somalia had a revolver lying beside his overflowing ashtray on the baize card table. Dictators bully and cheat, not only at cards. Field Marshal General Idi Amin Dada of Uganda, fleeing his overthrow, abandoned his mansion on Kololo Hill. Amin’s mansion showed us his madness, his vanity, his love of the cartoon characters Mickey Mouse, Goofy, Popeye and Olive Oil, and his hypochondria – the bathroom contained more medicine than a chemist’s shop. On their trips to African summitry, Iraq’s Saddam Hussein and Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi, worldly yet fanatical, were an enigma. Yasser Arafat and King Hassan of Morocco were diminutive men, but charming in meetings face-to-face. Arafat was full of bonhomie as he tapped the pistol on his belt. Angus Shaw, an award-winning international journalist, was born in Southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe. In this brutally honest memoir, he tells of friendship, joy and pain, of lies, of moral decay, and of sex, drink and drugs, as he journeys through seven blood-steeped African wars, culminating in that pinnacle of madness and depravity, the genocide in Rwanda. His story is peopled by cruel dictators and warlords, fighters whose dreams of freedom went unconsummated, great statesmen like the icon of peace Nelson Mandela, the jet-setting Pope John Paul II making pilgrimages to Africa, and idols of movies and music who visited his beleaguered Paradise of Fools. Published by Boundary Books
Depraved
Author: Harold Schechter
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439117314
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 515
Book Description
The heinous bloodlust of Dr. H.H. Holmes is notorious -- but only Harold Schechter's Depraved tells the complete story of the killer whose evil acts of torture and murder flourished within miles of the Chicago World's Fair. "Destined to be a true crime classic" (Flint Journal, MI), this authoritative account chronicles the methods and madness of a monster who slipped easily into a bright, affluent Midwestern suburb, where no one suspected the dapper, charming Holmes -- who alternately posed as doctor, druggist, and inventor to snare his prey -- was the architect of a labyrinthine "Castle of Horrors." Holmes admitted to twenty-seven murders by the time his madhouse of trapdoors, asphyxiation devices, body chutes, and acid vats was exposed. The seminal profile of a homegrown madman in the era of Jack the Ripper, Depraved is also a mesmerizing tale of true detection long before the age of technological wizardry.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439117314
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 515
Book Description
The heinous bloodlust of Dr. H.H. Holmes is notorious -- but only Harold Schechter's Depraved tells the complete story of the killer whose evil acts of torture and murder flourished within miles of the Chicago World's Fair. "Destined to be a true crime classic" (Flint Journal, MI), this authoritative account chronicles the methods and madness of a monster who slipped easily into a bright, affluent Midwestern suburb, where no one suspected the dapper, charming Holmes -- who alternately posed as doctor, druggist, and inventor to snare his prey -- was the architect of a labyrinthine "Castle of Horrors." Holmes admitted to twenty-seven murders by the time his madhouse of trapdoors, asphyxiation devices, body chutes, and acid vats was exposed. The seminal profile of a homegrown madman in the era of Jack the Ripper, Depraved is also a mesmerizing tale of true detection long before the age of technological wizardry.
Melodic Madness
Author: Natalie Bennett
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
There's a method in his madness. Alaric is as brilliant as he is beautiful and twice as deadly. He's been watching me. Studying me. He'd planned to keep me long before I arrived on his doorstep. His chaotic world is now the prison I'm forced to call home. A place where nightmares and reality are indistinguishable. As I struggle to find some clarity in the lies and darkness that surround me, Alaric continues to manipulate from the shadows. He knows exactly how to make my demons rage, just to soothe them with his opaque melodies. I've never hated anyone more. But he's the one thing I'd happily die for.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
There's a method in his madness. Alaric is as brilliant as he is beautiful and twice as deadly. He's been watching me. Studying me. He'd planned to keep me long before I arrived on his doorstep. His chaotic world is now the prison I'm forced to call home. A place where nightmares and reality are indistinguishable. As I struggle to find some clarity in the lies and darkness that surround me, Alaric continues to manipulate from the shadows. He knows exactly how to make my demons rage, just to soothe them with his opaque melodies. I've never hated anyone more. But he's the one thing I'd happily die for.
In the Time of Madness
Author: Richard Lloyd Parry
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 9780802142931
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Reprint. Originally published: London: Jonathan Cape, 2005.
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 9780802142931
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Reprint. Originally published: London: Jonathan Cape, 2005.
The Wilderness of Ruin
Author: Roseanne Montillo
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062273493
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
In late nineteenth-century Boston, home to Herman Melville and Oliver Wendell Holmes, a serial killer preying on children is running loose in the city—a wilderness of ruin caused by the Great Fire of 1872—in this literary historical crime thriller reminiscent of The Devil in the White City. In the early 1870s, local children begin disappearing from the working-class neighborhoods of Boston. Several return home bloody and bruised after being tortured, while others never come back. With the city on edge, authorities believe the abductions are the handiwork of a psychopath, until they discover that their killer—fourteen-year-old Jesse Pomeroy—is barely older than his victims. The criminal investigation that follows sparks a debate among the world’s most revered medical minds, and will have a decades-long impact on the judicial system and medical consciousness. The Wilderness of Ruin is a riveting tale of gruesome murder and depravity. At its heart is a great American city divided by class—a chasm that widens in the aftermath of the Great Fire of 1872. Roseanne Montillo brings Gilded Age Boston to glorious life—from the genteel cobblestone streets of Beacon Hill to the squalid, overcrowded tenements of Southie. Here, too, is the writer Herman Melville. Enthralled by the child killer’s case, he enlists physician Oliver Wendell Holmes to help him understand how it might relate to his own mental instability. With verve and historical detail, Roseanne Montillo explores this case that reverberated through all of Boston society in order to help us understand our modern hunger for the prurient and sensational. The Wilderness of Ruin features more than a dozen black-and-white photographs.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062273493
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
In late nineteenth-century Boston, home to Herman Melville and Oliver Wendell Holmes, a serial killer preying on children is running loose in the city—a wilderness of ruin caused by the Great Fire of 1872—in this literary historical crime thriller reminiscent of The Devil in the White City. In the early 1870s, local children begin disappearing from the working-class neighborhoods of Boston. Several return home bloody and bruised after being tortured, while others never come back. With the city on edge, authorities believe the abductions are the handiwork of a psychopath, until they discover that their killer—fourteen-year-old Jesse Pomeroy—is barely older than his victims. The criminal investigation that follows sparks a debate among the world’s most revered medical minds, and will have a decades-long impact on the judicial system and medical consciousness. The Wilderness of Ruin is a riveting tale of gruesome murder and depravity. At its heart is a great American city divided by class—a chasm that widens in the aftermath of the Great Fire of 1872. Roseanne Montillo brings Gilded Age Boston to glorious life—from the genteel cobblestone streets of Beacon Hill to the squalid, overcrowded tenements of Southie. Here, too, is the writer Herman Melville. Enthralled by the child killer’s case, he enlists physician Oliver Wendell Holmes to help him understand how it might relate to his own mental instability. With verve and historical detail, Roseanne Montillo explores this case that reverberated through all of Boston society in order to help us understand our modern hunger for the prurient and sensational. The Wilderness of Ruin features more than a dozen black-and-white photographs.
The Gallery of Miracles and Madness: Insanity, Art and Hitler’s first Mass-Murder Programme
Author: Charlie English
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008299641
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
‘A riveting tale, brilliantly told' Philippe Sands The little-known story of Hitler’s war on modern art and the mentally ill.
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008299641
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
‘A riveting tale, brilliantly told' Philippe Sands The little-known story of Hitler’s war on modern art and the mentally ill.