Lustmord : the writings and artifacts of murderers

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Title:

Author:

King, Brian,.

ISBN:

9780965032407

Publication Information:

Burbank, Calif. : Bloat, c1996.

Physical Description:

xii, 314 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Contents:

Gertrude Baniszewski -- Mary Bell -- David Berkowitz -- William Bonin -- Mr. Brown -- Patrick Byrne -- Michael & Suzan Carson -- Albert DeSalvo -- Derrick Edwardson -- Albert Fish -- John Linley Frazier -- Jeannace Freeman -- Bruno G. -- Harvey Glatman -- Charles Guiteau -- John George Haigh -- William Heirens -- William Edward Hickman -- William K. Jones -- Joseph Kallinger -- John List -- Patrick Mackay -- Herbert Mullin -- Carl Panzram -- Pauline Parker -- Issei Sagawa -- Gerard Schnaefer, Jr. -- Schizophrenic Firesetter -- Charles Schmid, Jr. -- Edgar Smith -- Richard & Bridget Smith -- Charles Starkweather -- Peter Sutcliffe -- Dennis Sweeney -- T.T.A. -- Ernest Albert Walker -- Zodiac.

Abstract:

Lustmord - A compilation of essays, short stories, memoirs, confessions, letters, manifestoes, poetry, drawings, photographs and other works created by serial killers, mass murderers, cannibals, necrophiles, sexual sadists, psychopaths and assassins. These compelling documents are now available for the first time in one volume - an aesthetic testimony to the emotion and logic of a murderer's mind, a mind filled with terror and hatred, absurdity and horror, pathos and iniquity.

Subject Term:

Criminal psychology.

Murderers -- Case studies.

Criminals' writings.

Sex crimes -- Case studies.

Sex offenders -- Case studies.

Added Author:

King, Brian,.

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Library	Material Type	Item Barcode	Shelf Number	Copy	Status
Searching... 1:IIEMSA	1:GEN-BOOK	33168025602109	364.15230922 K52L 1996	1	Searching... Unknown

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These compelling authentic documents are now available for the first time in one volume -- an aesthetic testimony to the emotion and logic of a murderer's mind, a mind filled with terror and hatred, absurdity and horror, pathos and iniquity.

"Brian King compiled these writings and arranged them in their present order to illustrate the bizarre logic that surfaces in people who are driven into the territory of the criminally insane. He shows with comments and sequence the human delusions and viewpoints that preoccupied the minds of the individuals before, during and after the illegal, cruel, and terrible violent crimes. -- Herbert Mullin, a serial killer who murdered thirteen people in the Santa Cruz area of California between October 1972 and February 1973.

A compilation of essays, short stories, memoirs, confessions, letters, manifestoes, poetry, drawings, photographs and other works created by serial killers, mass murderers, cannibals, necrophiles, sexual sadists, psychopaths and assassins.

"In my lifetime I have murdered 21 human beings. I have committed thousands of burglaries, robberies, larcenies, arsons and last but not least I have committed sodomy on more than 1,000 male human beings. For all of these things I am not the least bit sorry. I have no conscience so that does not worry me. I don't believe in Man, God nor devil. I hate the whole damned human race including myself". -- Carl Panzram, murderer

"I wish I could enact a law that would make a dull mind an infamous crime. I'm that embittered. They've done that much to me. Every time they waddle by with a filthy story created by a filthier mind, I wonder. There they go. Free. My potential executioners. Obese in mindand body. The men who perpetrate the world with social, cultural and historical lunacy. They get to kill me. Then I laugh. I know. The whole world has suddenly gone mad. Nothing matters". -- Charles Schmid, Jr., murderer