The Best New True Crime Stories: Serial Killers
Travel around the world and inside the minds of monsters in this true crime anthology featuring sixteen astonishing serial killer exposés. Serial killers: Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy, and Jeffrey Dahmer are often the first names that spring to mind. Many people assume serial killers are primarily an American phenomenon that came about in the latter part of the twentieth century—but such assumptions are far from the truth. Serial killers have been around for a long time and can be found in every corner of the globe―and they’re not just limited to the male gender, either. Some of these predators have been caught and brought to justice whereas others have never been found, let alone identified. Serial killers can be anywhere. And scarier still, they can be anyone. Edited by acclaimed author and anthologist Mitzi Szereto, The Best New True Crime Stories: Serial Killers reveals all-new accounts of true-crime serial killers from the contemporary to the historic. The international list of contributors includes award-winning crime writers, true-crime podcasters, journalists, and experts in the dark crimes field such as Martin Edwards, Lee Mellor, Danuta Kot, Craig Pittman, Richard O. Jones, Marcie Rendon, Mike Browne, and Vicki Hendricks. This book will leave you wondering if it’s ever really possible to know who’s behind the mask you’re allowed to see. Perfect for readers of true crime books such as I’ll Be Gone in the Dark, Mindhunter, The Devil in the White City, or Sons of Cain. “An engrossing and multi-faceted anthology for a new era of true crime writing.” ―Piper Weiss, author of You All Grow Up and Leave Me
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In the introduction the author incorrectly says about what is known as “Penny Dreadfuls” people in Victorian England, London in the 19th paid a penny to read a gory “Penny Dreadful” story.
They were published weekly in the newspaper and Victorians were obsessed with all the blood and gore. Edgar Allan Poe was a popular American writer, poet due to the gory gothic horror short stories & poems that he wrote.
Dennis Nilsen (A Scottish serial killer): He was a very ordinary and insignificant person, there wasn't anything particularly interesting about him as a person. In a documentary series “Des” he was potrayed by the actor David Tennent and even he thought that the serial killer was “boring” after doing his own research about him.
Some disturbings facts about the serial killer are that he was a police officer for a brief amountof time, but he was kicked off the police gorce due to masturbating in the morgue.
He is a necrophile (a person that is turned on & attracted to corpses of once living people. Necrophilia is the name of this disturbing sexual desire but a person that feels that attraction and acts out their fantasy is known as a necrophile) He was extremely lonely that he killed for company so even corpses were considered as good enough company.
Jeffrey Dahmer was also extremely lonely gay man that had a lot of issues and he became a serial killer “the Milwaulkee cannibal” he spent time with the corpses of his victims but he had sex with their corpses and cannibalised them.
He made a shrine out of their bones and limbs (this is why he was murdered later on in prison) because other prisoners were disgusted by him, his crimes of serial rape, murder, mutilation, cannibalism, necrophilia and his “shrine of death”
Another disturbing aspects of the serial killer is the one living victim that Dennis Nilsen purposefully strangled & drowned and revived and bundled them into a sleeping bag, the poor man remembers this hapening to him. He had ligature marks on him after it happened, he is lucky to be alive.
Ted Bundy was a necrophile) Both decapitated their victims.
He purposefully targeted men that were vulnerable, innocent and some may have been gay but I don't think all the the victims were gay.
I think that Dennis Nilsen was secretly ashamed to be gay and couldn't or wasn't able to admit to himself that he was gay & lonely.