Sons of Cain

A History of Serial Killers from the Stone Age to the Present

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<b>From the author of <i>Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters</i> comes an in-depth examination of sexual serial killers throughout human history, how they evolved, and why we are drawn to their horrifying crimes.</b><br><br>Before the term was coined in 1981, there were no "serial killers." There were only "monsters"--killers society first understood as werewolves, vampires, ghouls and witches or, later, Hitchcockian psychos.<br><br>In <i>Sons of Cain</i>--a book that fills the gap between dry academic studies and sensationalized true crime--investigative historian Peter Vronsky examines our understanding of serial killing from its prehistoric anthropological evolutionary dimensions in the pre-civilization era (c. 15,000 BC) to today. Delving further back into human history and deeper into the human psyche than <i>Serial Killers</i>--Vronsky's 2004 book, which has been called the definitive history of serial murder--he focuses strictly on sexual serial killers: thrill killers who engage in murder, rape, torture, cannibalism and necrophilia, as opposed to for-profit serial killers, including hit men, or "political" serial killers, like terrorists or genocidal murderers.<br><br>These sexual serial killers differ from all other serial killers in their motives and their foundations. They are uniquely human and--as popular culture has demonstrated--uniquely fascinating.

Artikeldetails

EAN

9780425276976

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

208 x 141 x 27 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

Verlag / Hersteller

Penguin Putnam Inc