I, monster Serial killers in their own chilling words

Tom Philbin, 1934-

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Published
Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books 2011.
Language
English
Main Author
Tom Philbin, 1934- (-)
Physical Description
263 p. : ill., map, ports. ; 23 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN
9781616141639
  • Foreword: A Club with a Cost
  • Introduction: A Rough Ride
  • 1. David Berkowitz
  • 2. Ted Bundy
  • 3. Jeffrey Dahmer
  • 4. Westley Allan Dodd
  • 5. Albert Fish
  • 6. John Wayne Gacy
  • 7. Robert Hansen
  • 8. H. H. Holmes
  • 9. Jack the Ripper
  • 10. Edmund Kemper
  • 11. Peter Kürten
  • 12. Henry Lee Lucas
  • 13. Dennis Nilsen
  • 14. Dennis Rader
  • 15. David Parker Ray
  • 16. Gary Ridgway
  • 17. Arthur Shawcross
  • 18. Peter Sutcliffe
  • 19. Michael Swango
  • 20. Aileen Wuornos
Review by Booklist Review

Veteran grim-lit readers may have noticed a recent uptick in the number of books plumbing the depths of all-star fiends (Henry Lee Lucas, Jeffrey Dahmer, Ted Bundy, etc.). Philbin has assembled a tribute to serial killers a little different in presentation and attribution: the words in it are direct quotations from the letters, confessions, trial transcripts and the like of the blood-stained miscreants themselves. Each chapter begins with a career summary of a single slaughterer and his crimes (all the subjects are male, except for Aileen Wuornos). Coverage reaches back in time to Jack the Ripper and H. H. Holmes and includes lesser-known psychopaths Westley Allan Dodd and Edmund Kemper along with such more familiar homicides as David Berkowitz and Albert Fish. A good many of these human-hunters' narratives are extremely disturbing, certainly not for the faint of heart. (Consider yourself warned.) Yet this is an excellent addition to the serial-killer literature because of the straight-from-the-heart-of-darkness provenance of those same gruesome stories.--Tribby, Mike Copyright 2010 Booklist

From Booklist, Copyright (c) American Library Association. Used with permission.