A chilling, lavishly illustrated who's who of the most despicable
people ever to walk the earth, featuring stories from the Lore
podcast--now a streaming television series--including "Black Stockings,"
"Half-Hanged," and "The Castle," as well as rare material.
Some monsters are figments of our imagination. Others are as real as
flesh and blood: humans who may look like us, who may walk among us,
often unnoticed, occasionally even admired--but whose evil deeds and
secret lives, once revealed, mark them as something utterly wicked.
In this illustrated volume from the host of the hit podcast Lore, you'll
find tales of infamous characters whose veins ran with ice water and
whose crimes remind us that truth can be more terrifying than fiction.
Aaron Mahnke introduces us to William Brodie, a renowned Scottish
cabinetmaker who used his professional expertise to prey on the citizens
of Edinburgh and whose rampant criminality behind a veneer of social
respectability inspired Robert Louis Stevenson's classic novella
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Then there's H. H. Holmes,
a relentless and elusive con artist who became best known as the terror
of Chicago's 1893 World's Fair when unwitting guests were welcomed into
his "hotel" of horrors . . . never to be seen again. And no rogues'
gallery could leave out Bela Kiss, the Hungarian tinsmith with a taste
for the occult and a collection of gasoline drums with women's bodies
inside.
Brimming with accounts of history's most heinous real-life fiends, this
riveting best-of-the-worst roundup will haunt your thoughts, chill your
bones, and leave you wondering if there are mortal monsters lurking even
closer than you think.
The World of Lore series includes:
MONSTROUS CREATURES - WICKED MORTALS - DREADFUL PLACES
