Further Reading

Bataille, Georges. The Trial of Gilles de Rais. Los Angeles: Amok Books, 1991.

Beavan, Colin. Fingerprints: The Origins of Crime Detection and the Murder Case That Launched Forensic Science. New York: Hyperion, 2002.

Blinda, Lawrence. The Big, Bad Book of Mike: Rogues, Rascals and Rapscallions Named Michael, Mike and Mickey. iUniverse, 2003.

Bowden, Mark. Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World’s Greatest Outlaw. New York: Penguin, 2002.

Brackett, D. W. Holy Terror: Armageddon in Tokyo. Boston: Weatherhill, 1996.

Braund, Nathan, and Maxim Jakubowski. The Mammoth Book of Jack the Ripper. Philadelphia: Running Press, 1999.

Bugliosi, Vincent, and Curt Gentry. Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2001.

Carlo, Philip. The Night Stalker. New York: Pinnacle, 2006.

Castles, Alex C. The Shark Arm Murders: The Thrilling True Story of a Tiger Shark and a Tattooed Arm. Kent Town: AU: Wakefield Press, 1999.

Clarkson, Wensley. The Good Doctor. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2007.

Codrescu, Andrei. The Blood Countess. London: Quartet Books, 2008.

Conradi, Peter. The Red Ripper: Inside the Mind of Russia’s Most Brutal Serial Killer. London: Book Club Associates, 1992.

Crowley, Aleister. Gilles de Rais: The Banned Lecture. Logan, OH: Black Moon Publishing, 2008.

Eckert, Allan W. The Scarlet Mansion. New York: Little, Brown & Co., 1985.

Evans, Stewart P., and Keith Skinner. The Ultimate Jack the Ripper Companion: An Illustrated Encyclopedia. New York: Basic Books, 2001.

Fisher, Jim. The Lindbergh Case. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1994.

Fisher, Joseph C. Killer Among Us: Public Reactions to Serial Murder. New York: Praeger, 1997.

Gaskins, Donald. Final Truth: The Autobiography of a Serial Killer. Starr, SC: Adept Books, 1992.

Geary, Rick. The Borden Tragedy: A Memoir of the Infamous Double Murder at Fall River, Massachusetts, 1892. New York: NBM, 1997.

Gilmore, John. Manson: The Unholy Trail of Charlie and the Family. Los Angeles: Amok Books, 2000.

Goodrich, Thomas. The Darkest Dawn: Lincoln, Booth, and the Great American Tragedy. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006.

Harrison. Shirley. Jack the Ripper: The American Connection. London: John Blake, 2003.

Horowitz, Sara, and Michael Ruane. Sniper: Inside the Hunt for the Killers Who Terrorized the Nation. New York: Ballantine Books, 2004.

Kauffman, Michael W. American Brutus: John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln Conspiracies. New York: Random House, 2005.

Kent, David. The Lizzie Borden Sourcebook. N.p.: Branden Books, 1992.

Keppel, Robert. Signature Killers. New York: Pocket Books, 2007.

Knight, Alanna. Burke and Hare: Crime Archive. Washington, D.C.: The National Archives, 2007.

Langlois, Janet. Belle Gunness. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1985.

Lasseter, Don. Die for Me: The Terrifying True Story of the Charles Ng and Leonard Lake Torture Murders. New York: Pinnacle, 2000.

Leggiere, Michael V. The Fall of Napoleon. Vol. 1, The Allied Invasion of France, 1813–1814. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow. Hour of Gold, Hour of Lead. New York: Mariner Books, 1993.

Linedecker, Clifford L. The Man Who Killed Boys: The John Wayne Gacy, Jr. Story. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1980.

London, Sondra, and G. J. Schaefer, Killer Fiction. Port Townsend, WA: Feral House, 1997.

Lourie, Richard. Hunting the Devil. The Pursuit, Capture and Confession of the Most Savage Serial Killer in History. New York: HarperCollins, 1993.

Manson, Charles. Manson in His Own Words. New York: Grove Press, 1994.

Martingale, Moira. Cannibal Killers: The History of Impossible Murders. New York: Running Press Second Edition, 1999.

Masters. Brian. Killing for Company. New York: Random House, 1995.

Michaud, Stephen G. Lethal Shadow: The Chilling True-Crime Story of a Sadistic Sex Slayer. New York: Penguin, 1994.

Michaud, Stephen G., and Hugh Aynesworth. The Only Living Witness: The True Story of Serial Killer Ted Bundy. New York: Signet, 1986.

———. Ted Bundy: Conversations with a Serial Killer. Irving, TX: Authorlink, 2000.

Michaud, Stephen G., with Robert R. Hazelwood. The Evil That Men Do. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1998.

Mollison, James. The Memory of Pablo Escobar. London: Chris Boot, 2007.

Mordeaux, A. Bathory: Memoir of a Countess. Charleston, SC: BookSurge Publishing, 2008.

Nickel, Steven. Torso: The Story of Eliot Ness and the Search for a Psychopathic Killer. Winston-Salem, NC: John F. Blair Publisher, 1989.

O’Brien, Darcy. The Hillside Stranglers. Philadelphia: Running Press, 2003.

Olsen, Jack. Man with Candy. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1974.

Payne, Robert. Ivan the Terrible. New York: Cooper Square Press, 2002.

Penrose, Valentine. The Bloody Countess: Atrocities of Erzsebet Bathory. N.p.: Solar Books, 2006.

Perrie, Maureen, and Andrei Pavlov. Ivan the Terrible. Harrow, UK: Longman, 2003.

Pudney, Jeremy. The Bodies in Barrels Murders. London: John Blake Publishing, 2006.

Ritchie, Jeane, and Brian Whittle. Harold Shipman—Prescription for Murder: The True Story of Dr. Harold Frederick Shipman. New York: Time Warner, 2004.

Rogers, Alan. New England Remembers: The Boston Strangler. Beverly, MA: Commonwealth Editions, 2006.

Ryan, Bernarad. The Poisoned Life of Mrs. Maybrick. London: Penguin, 1989.

Schecter, Harold. A to Z Encyclopedia of Serial Killers. New York: Pocket Books, 1997.

———. Bestial: The Savage Tale of a True American Monster. New York: Pocket Books, 2004.

———. Deranged: The Shocking True Story of America’s Most Fiendish Killer. New York: Pocket Books, 1990.

Sebatini, Rafael. The Life of Cesare Borgia. Rockville, MD: Wildside Press, 2003.

Shepherd, Sylvia Elizabeth. The Mistress of Murder Hill: The Serial Killings of Belle Gunness. Bloomington, IN: 1st Books Library, 2001.

Smith, Carlton. The BTK Murders: Inside the “Bind Torture Kill” Case that Terrified America’s Heartland. New York: St. Martin’s, 2007.

Sounes, Howard. Fred and Rose: The Full Story of Fred and Rose West and the Gloucester House of Horror. New York: Little Brown, 1995.

Spurr, Wendy, and Kimberly Spurr. Alfred Packer’s High Protein Cookbook. Grand Junction, CO: Centennial Publications, 1995.

Sugden, Philip. The Complete History of Jack the Ripper. New York: Carroll & Graf, 1994.

Sullivan. Terry, and Peter Mailen. Killer Clown: John Wayne: The John Wayne Gacy Murders. New York: Pinnacle, 2000.

Trow, M. J. Vlad the Impaler: In Search of the Real Dracula. Charleston, SC: History Press, 2004.

Unger, Miles J. Magnifico: The Brilliant Life and Violent Times of Lorenzo de’ Medici. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2008.

Vronsky, Peter. Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters. New York: Berkley, 2004.

Watson, Bruce. Sacco and Vanzetti: The Men, The Murders, and the Judgment of Mankind. New York: Penguin, 2008.

Other Books by Colin Wilson

Aleister Crowley: The Nature of the Beast. New York: HarperCollins, 1993.

The Angry Years. London: Anova Books, 2007.

Beyond the Outsider. London: Arthur Barker, 1965.

A Casebook of Murder. New York: Cowles Book Company, 1969.

The Corpse Garden: The Crimes of Fred and Rose West. London: Pan Books, 1998.

Crimes of Passion (with Damon Wilson). London: Carlton Publishing Group, 2007.

A Criminal History of Mankind. New York: Putnam, 1984.

The Encyclopedia of Crime (with Oliver Cyriax and Damon Wilson). New York: Overlook Hardcover, 2006.

Encyclopedia of Murder. London: Pan Books, 1961.

The Encyclopedia of Unsolved Mysteries (with Damon Wilson). New York: McGraw-Hill 1988.

History of Murder. N.p.: Castle Books, 2004.

The Killers Among Us: Motives Behind Their Madness: Book I. New York: Grand Central Publishing, 1996.

The Killers Among Us: Sex, Madness and Mass Murder: Book II. New York: Grand Central Publishing, 1997.

The Mammoth Book of Illustrated True Crime. London: Robinson Publishing, 2002.

The Mammoth Book of the History of Murder. Philadelphia: Running Press, 2000.

The Mammoth Book of True Crime. New York: Carroll & Graf 1988.

Manhunt. Irvington, NY: Hylas Publishing, 2006.

The Mind Parasites. Rhinebeck, NY: Monkfish Book Publishing, 2005.

The Misfits: A Study of Sexual Outsiders. New York: Carroll & Graf, 1988.

Murder Casebook. Charlottesville, VA: Hampton Roads, 2008.

Murder in the 1930s: Colin Wilson’s True Crime File. London: Robinson Publishing, 1992.

Murder in the 1940s: Colin Wilson’s True Crime File. London: Robinson Publishing, 1993.

The Occult: A History. New York: Random House, 1971.

Order of Assassins: The Psychology of Murder. London: Granada Publishing, 1979.

The Outsider. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1956.

A Plague of Murder. London: Robinson Publishing, 1995.

Rogue Messiahs: Tales of Self-Proclaimed Saviors. Charlottesville, VA: Hampton Roads Publishing, 2000.

Scandal: Private Stories of Public Shame (with Damon Wilson). London: Virgin Books, 2005.

Serial Killer Investigations. Irvington, NY: Hylas Publishing, 2006.

The Serial Killers: A Study in the Psychology of Violence (with Donald Seaman). London: Virgin Books, 2007.

The Sex Diary of a Metaphysician. Berkeley, CA: Ronin Publishing, 1988.

Strange Vanishings: Strange but True Series. New York: Sterling Publishing, 1997.

Weird News Stories. Sidmouth, UK: Paragon, 1996.

Written in Blood: A History of Forensic Detection. Philadelphia: Running Press, 2003.

Written in Blood: Detectives and Detection. New York: Warner Books, 1991.

Written in Blood: The Criminal Mind and Method. New York: Warner Books, 1992.

Written in Blood: The Trail and the Hunt. Warner Books, 1991.