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This guide examines the realities of serial murder versus popular myths depicted in film and television. From Jack the Ripper to Ted Bundy, the encyclopedia gives readers an overview of what is undoubtedly the most macabre and fascinating branch of crime and modern criminology.
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"Patrick Bateman is handsome, well educated, intelligent. He works by day on Wall Street, earning a fortune to complement the one he was born with. His nights he spends in ways we cannot begin to fathom. He is twenty-six years old and living his own American dream"--Bookcover flyleaf.

"Of Men and Monsters" explores the serial killer as an American cultural icon, one that both attracts and repels. Richard Tithecott suggests that the stories we tell and the images we conjure of serial killers - real and fictional - reveal as much about mainstream culture and its values, desires and anxieties as they do about the killers themselves. Why, for example, does Hannibal Lecter, though clearly dangerous, seem brilliant, even alluring, while his dark counterpart in "Silence of the Lambs", Buffalo Bill, represents pure monstrosity? In a nation where murders occur every day, why do those we name "serial killers" seem so different, meriting a flood of public and media attention? Looking at how Jeffrey Dahmer's story was told - on the "Geraldo" talk show and CNN specials, in "Washington Post" editorials and "People Weekly" pictorials, Tithecott argues that the serial killer we construct for ourselves is a mythical figure in the contemporary world. Transcending boundaries between madness and sanity, civilization and savagery, the idea of the serial killer fulfills dreams of masculinity, purity and violence.
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William MacNary was eight years old when his father went to prison. Since then, he's carefully built a life as a family man and a private banker for the wealthy. He tries to forget that his father dismembered and photographed thirteen women. And he tries to forget those exquisitely composed photos of severed hands, heads, and feet that launched the "murderabilia" art market. William has not spoken to his father for thirty-one years. No one at his tony bank knows whose son he is. Not until his wife's colleague is murdered and carved up in the same way his father would have done it. All the evidence points to William. And only one person can understand the copycat killerthe monster William hasn't seen since he was a child.

Convinced that she is his long-lost daughter, detective Beauvoir follows serial killer Catherine around Europe, helping her to elude the police, until she falls in love with a blind artist.

"On a rainy day in Gaborone, a boy beat-down by the city, stumbles onto another in a rough encounter that unleashes a ferocioous animal inside him. Here a serial killer is born - a vicious animal never before seen in the African continent. A Mogoditshane boy is found hanging on a yard fence with symbols on his chest the following morning. A week later, in Francistown a double homicide follows and local papers start swarming with headlines of 'The Butcher of Donga'"--back cover.

Moscow is plagued with a series of gruesome murders. Xenia, an ambitious young editor in the news department of an online journal decides to track down the serial killer, devising an elaborate website to entrap him. She soon realises, however, that her obsession with the psychopath reflects something disturbing: her own unconscious fascination with the sexual savagery of the murders.
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• Die Düsseldorfer Sexualverbrechern (1930) / Ernst Gennant
• Der Sadist (1931) / Karl Berg
• Der Prozess (1931) / Ernst Gennant
• Verteidigungsrede für den Düsseldorfer Massenmörder Kŭrten (1931).