THE GATES OF JANUS: An Analysis of Serial Murder by
England's Most Hated Criminal
By Ian Brady (the "Moors Murderer")
With an introduction By Colin Wilson
Known as the "Moors Murders," the case of Ian Brady and
Myra Hindley's torture,
sexual abuse and murder of a child and two teenagers
in the early 1960s is thought to be the most appalling
series of crimes ever committed in England.
To understand human character, one must first
explore the depraved reaches of human consciousness.
So believes novelist and true-crime writer Colin Wilson,
who introduces Brady's book. Brady first explores human
impulse based on his readings, observations and life-story.
He then analyzes a dozen other serial crimes and serial murderers.
Feral House
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SEVERED: THE TRUE STORY OF
THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER
By John Gilmore
The grisly 1947
murder of aspiring starlet and nightclub habitué
Elizabeth Short, known even before her death as the
“Black Dahlia,” has over the decades
transmogrified from L.A.'s crime of the century to an
almost mythical symbol of Hollywood Babylon/film noir
glamour-cum-sordidness.
SEVERED, the
first true-crime book published on the strangest of all
“unsolved” murders in the annals of modern
crime, offers the documented solution to the case as
endorsed by law enforcement and forensic science experts.
It is appropriate that hard-boiled, Hollywood-born author
John Gilmore, whose father was an LAPD officer at the
time of the murder, should be the one to unravel the
multilayered mystery of this archetypal Los Angeles
slaying, having begun his painstaking investigations into
the case over thirty-five years ago.
Gilmore tells
several previously unrevealed stories at once, each
filled with its own bizarre elements through which
SEVERED transcends the true crime genre. One is the tale
of victim Elizabeth Short, small-town beauty queen with
big hopes, who seemed to float through her tragically
futile life as an alluring yet doom-laden enigma. Another
is the tangled inside story of the police investigation
and the remorseless, Hearststoked press hoopla that
paralled it. Finally Gilmore reveals the twisted
psychology and down-and-out life story of the actual
murderer— as well as the startling circumstances and
gruesome details of the killer's indirect confessions to
him. SEVERED contains a thirty-two-page photo section
with many never before-published photos from the life of
Elizabeth Short and from the case, including graphic
crime scene and postmortem police photos.
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1-878923-10-2 (trade paper) · $16.95 · 230 pgs ·
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THE TRIAL OF GILLES DE
RAIS
By Georges Bataille
Georges Bataille
presents the case of the most infamous villain of the
Middle Ages: Gilles de Rais. Fascinated with the depths
of human experience — the meeting points of
sexuality, violence, ritual, spirituality, and death
— Bataille examines with dispassionate clarity the
legendary crimes, trials and confessions of this
grotesque and still horrifying 15th-century
child-murderer, sadist, alchemist, necrophile and
practitioner of the Black Arts.
“This book
about the notorious 15th-century serial killer of young
children, written by France’s famous connoisseur of
transgression — the man the surrealist Andre Breton
labeled an ‘excremental philosopher’ —
represents a marriage not made in heaven, perhaps, but
surely nowhere on this earth . . . the fact is that The
Trial of Gilles de Rais gives us Bataille at his most
accessible — he had been trained as a medievalist
librarian, after all — and is probably, taken in its
entirety, the best thing now available in English on one
of the most bizarre figures in European history.”
— New York Times Book Review
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MANSON: THE UNHOLY TRAIL
OF CHARLIE AND THE FAMILY
By John Gilmore and Ron Kenner
Random murder
and savage overkill, mind control and bad trips, satanism
and witchcraft, cursed glamour, Haight-Ashbury,
rock'n'roll, biker gangs, sexual rebellion and dune
buggies tearing across death valley in search of the
"hole in the earth"..... The Garbage People, a
gripping account of one of the most chilling and
fascinating crime sagas of our time, now available in a
revised and updated edition. Contains 32 pages of
previously unpublished photos including graphic crime
scene and post-mortem documentation.
“This
terrible tale haunts the reader....a remarkable
achievement in bringing together the chords of
fear.” —Los Angeles News-Advocate
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RIGHTEOUS CARNAGE-The List
Murders
By Timothy Benford & James Johnson
One
November day in 1971, he murdered his wife, mother, and
three children, then disappeared from his home in
Westfield, New Jersey. For 18 years, former Sunday school
teacher John List lived an unassuming life as Robert
Clark. In 1989, the story of his brutal crime was
broadcast on the popular TV program America's Most
Wanted, ironically one of the incognito killer's own
favorite shows. Clark's Denver neighbors recognized the
mild-mannered accountant as the profoundly disturbed
killer who had murdered his family in the name of God-and
nearly got away with the crime. List's unmasking-and long
delayed trial that ensued-transfixed the entire nation.
But until now, the definitive story of John List and his
victims has never been told.
ISBN
0-684-19200-4 (Hardcover)
$20.00
310 pgs
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TRACKING THE JACKAL
By David Yallop
David Yallop spent ten years on
the trail of the mysterious Carlos the Jackal, a man
accused of some of the most heinous acts in the annals of
international terrorism: the attack on the on the Israeli
athletes at the Munich Olympics, the kidnapping of the
OPEC oil ministers, the massacre at Lod airport in Tel
Aviv, and scores of bombings, murders, and hijackings.
Yallop's intrepid search led him into dangerous
territory. He was in Beirut at a time when Westerners
were being kidnapped and murdered in alarming numbers,
and his guide was killed mysteriously. He continued his
investigations moving through the mirky worlds of
terrorists and counterterrorists, intelligence and
counterintelligence, spies and double agents. He drank
orange juice with Colonel Qadaffi in his tent, talked
until dawn with Yasser Arafat in a basement in Tunisia
and visited Carlos' old school chums in Venezuela. He
found his man. Tracking the Jackal reads like a thriller,
but it is a major work of investigative reporting that
reveals a complex web of political corruption and
betrayal.
ISBN
0-679-425594-4 $20.00 (Hardcover)
627 pgs
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MEAT IS MURDER -An Illustrated
Guide to Cannibal Culture
by Mikkita Brottman
Violent
death, murder, mutilation, eating and defecation, ritualism,
bodily extremes: cannibalism combines these crucial themes to
represent one of the most symbolically charged narratives in
the human psychic repertoire. As a grotesque figure of power,
threat, and atavistic appetites, the cannibal has played a
formidable role in the tales told by members of all cultures
- whether oral, written, or filmic - and embodies the
ultimate extent of transgressive behaviour to which human
beings can be driven. Meat is Murder! is a unique and
explicit exploration of the stories that are told about
cannibals, from classical myth to contemporary film and
fiction, and features an in-depth illustrated critique of
cannibalism as portrayed in the cinema, from mondo and
explotation films to horror movies and arthouse classics. It
also details the atrocious crimes of real life cannibals of
the modern age, such as Albert Fish, Ed Gein, Jeffrey Dahmer
and Andrei Chikatilo. Includes illustrated coverage of such
"video nasties" as Cannibal Ferox and Cannibal
Holocaust.
ISBN
1-871592-90-9
$19.95
(trade-paper)
208 pgs
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EROS IN HELL - Sex, Blood and
Madness in Japanese Cinema
by Jack Hunter $19.95
SEX:
The history of "pink" movies, from Daydream to Ai
No Corrida and beyond, including the pop avant-garde violence
of Koji Wakamatsu: Violated Angels, The Embryo Hunts in
Secret, Violent Virgin and others. Bondage and S/M from Moju
and Captured For Sex to Kinbiken rope torture. The New Wave
pink films of Hisayasu Sato: The Bedroom, Naked Blood,
Private Torture of Uniforms: Thrust It In! and much more.
BLOOD: From Shogun Assassin and Psycho Junkie to the killing
orgies of Guinea Pig and Atrocity; from the "pink
horror" nightmare Entrails of a Virgin to the post-punk
yakuza bloodbaths of Kei Fujiwara's Organ and Takashi Miike's
Fudoh. MADNESS: Homicidal psychosis, hallucination, mutation:
Tetsuo, Death Powder, the films of Shozin Fukui: Pinocchio
964, Rubber's Love. Post-punk excess, nihilism, violence,
suicide: Burst City, Labyrinth of Dreams, Squareworld, Tokyo
Crash. Eros in Hell examines all these movies and many more
besides, is profusely illustrated with rare and unusual
photographs, and contains illuminating interviews with
Japanese film-makers Koji Wakamatsu and Takao Nakano;
comprising a unique guide to the most prolific, fascinating
and controversial underground/ alternative cinema in the
world.
ISBN
1-871592-93-3
$19.95
(trade-paper)
256 pgs
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A Trail Of Corn
By Keith Walker
How
could a man be guilty of kidnapping and killing a 14 year-old
schoolgirl while on a fishing trip miles away from where she
disappeared? - The District Attorney claimed the suspect was
a vicious sex killer who stalked the victim and kept her
possessions as a fetish. Was his fishing alibi the 'trail of
corn' he left to throw everyone off the scent? Later her
remains were found in a grisly grave 339 feet up a steep
hillside, where the suspect had a cabin. A very controversial
case with twists and turns galore and only circumstantial
evidence to implicate the suspect...
Golden
Door Press
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pgs.
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THE
BLOODY COUNTESS
By Valentine Penrose
Translated by Alexander Trocchi
The Crimes of Erzsebet Bathory
The Countess was responsible for some 650
murders. All of her many castles were equipped with torture
chambers, where, with the assistance of her evil familiar
Dorko, dwarf manservant Ficzko, and the sorceress Anna
Darvulia, Erzsabet Bathory would hideously mutilate and
butcher her victims. The cellars of her castles became murder
factories where hundreds of girls were killed and processed
for the ultimate, youth giving ritual: the bath of blood, for
she believed that bathing in virgin's blood would preserve
her youth and beauty. A female Gilles de Rais, indulging in
sadistic, lesbian fantasies involving necro-sadism,
witchcraft, torture, blood-drinking and bathing, cannibalism
and wholesale slaughter.
Creation Books $13.95 157 pgs.
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HOMICIDE
INVESTIGATION: A PRACTICAL
HANDBOOK
By Burt Rapp
There's a few things worse than watching
someone die at the hands of a murderer. One of them is seeing
the murderer get off on some legal technicality - free to
claim another victim.
Burt Rapp has done a great service for police
officers, private investigators, civilians and
representatives of the media. He has written a comprehensive
manual on the techniques of homicide investigation.
Investigators will learn how to catch
murderers and how to avoid mistakes that let them go free.
Topics dealt with in this illustrated guide include:
Stages of death - what happens when someone
is murdered. Estimating time of death - one important rule.
Search warrants - when you need them and when you don't.
Vital precautions when handling homicide suspects.
Controversial tactics - psychics, polygraphs and hypnosis -
pitfalls to avoid. The right way to sketch a murder scene.
What really happens at an autopsy. Dealing with the media -
how they can help and things you never tell them.
Police officers, elected officials,
attorneys, reporters, crime writers, private investigators -
do yourself a favor, get this book before they get away.
Loompanics Unlimited $16.95
179 pgs. Illustrated
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TRAUMA CODE
By Sonny Shepherd
On the Scene with Fire and Rescue
TRAUMA CODE takes a sobering look at the
horrors Fire and Rescue workers face every day - Violent
Death. Rescue workers experience first hand, the tragic
impact violent death has on victims and their families.
Oftentimes, it is human error that leads to our own untimely
demise. With more than 130 black & white photographs,
spanning from the 1950's through the present, this book
explores sudden, violent death in many of its most tragic
forms. Follow Firefighters and Rescue workers on the front
lines of automobile crashes, aviation and train disasters,
drownings, murders, suicides and fires.
The images may shock and horrify, but they
may make people think about how fragile life is and learn
from the mistakes of others. Unfortunately, it takes deaths
such as these to bring about stricter safety standards, more
stringent fire codes, tougher laws and better public
awareness. WARNING EXTREMELY GRAPHIC!
Raven Entertainment, Inc.
$24.95 130 pgs. Illustrated
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SERIAL KILLERS
By the editors at
Time-Life Books
Profiles of today's most terrifying criminals
Are they savage, calculating murderers or
hopelessly disturbed psychotics? Decide for yourself when you
explore their world in eighteen startling profiles. Their
exploits shocked the entire world - now meet the men who were
driven to kill; deadly clown John Wayne Gacy; lady-killer Ted
Bundy; vicious "Son of Sam" David Berkowitz; Ed
Gein, whose crimes inspired the film PSYCHO and many others
who brutally murdered their victims one at a time. Probe
their smoldering resentments and their sinister fantasies,
and find out what drove these people to commit acts of
unspeakable savagery.
Time-Life Books $10.00 192
pgs. Illustrated
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MASS MURDERERS
By the editors at
Time-Life Books
Profiles of a rare and notorious breed of
killer
Mass murderers are the killers who take down
multiple victims in a single explosive burst. But what
internal rage could push someone this far? For Some it's
years of abuse or neglect. Others hear voices. For others
it's the ultimate form of revenge against an ex-lover or
former boss. Consumed with hate, these irrational killers
strike out. Here you'll confront the most infamous mass
murderers of our time; Richard Speck, the nurse killer;
Charles Whitman's Texas Tower massacre; James Huberty's blind
fury at a McDonalds; the racist rage of Mark Essex and many
others. What goes on in the mind of a mass murderer? You're
about to find out.
Time-Life Books $10.00 192
pgs. Illustrated
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THE CINCINNATI CRIME BOOK
By George Stimson (of
A.T.W.A./Manson fame)
A Century of Cincinnati Crime
Here are thirteen of the most infamous murder
cases in Cincinnati history. Take a walk on the dark side of
the Queen City and meet the King of the Bootleggers and the
Cincinnati Strangler. Or, be glad you didn't meet the Head
and Hands Murderers, the Torch Slayer or Donald Harvey. These
true stories span the last century of Cincinnati crime, from
the Pearl Bryan case of 1896 to the Della Dante Sutorius case
of 1996. Over 60 black & white photos.
The Peasenhall Press $16.95
247 pgs. Illustrated
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