The World of Lore: Wicked Mortals

The World of Lore: Wicked Mortals

A chilling, lavishly illustrated whoâ€™s who of the most despicable people ever to walk the earth, featuring stories from the Lore podcastâ€”now a streaming television seriesâ€”including â€œBlack Stockings,â€ â€œHalf-Hanged,â€ and â€œThe Castle,â€ as well as rare material.

Some monsters are figments of our imagination. Others are as real as flesh and blood: humans who may look like us, who may walk among us, often unnoticed, occasionally even admiredâ€”but whose evil deeds and secret lives, once revealed, mark them as something utterly wicked.
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In this illustrated volume from the host of the hit podcast Lore, youâ€™ll find tales of infamous characters whose veins ran with ice water and whose crimes remind us that truth can be more terrifying than fiction. Aaron Mahnke introduces us to William Brodie, a renowned Scottish cabinetmaker who used his professional expertise to prey on the citizens of Edinburgh and whose rampant criminality behind a veneer of social respectability inspired Robert Louis Stevensonâ€™s classic novella Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Then thereâ€™s H. H. Holmes, a relentless and elusive con artist who became best known as the terror of Chicagoâ€™s 1893 Worldâ€™s Fair when unwitting guests were welcomed into his â€œhotelâ€ of horrors . . . never to be seen again. And no roguesâ€™ gallery could leave out Bela Kiss, the Hungarian tinsmith with a taste for the occult and a collection of gasoline drums with womenâ€™s bodies inside.
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Brimming with accounts of historyâ€™s most heinous real-life fiends, this riveting best-of-the-worst roundup will haunt your thoughts, chill your bones, and leave you wondering if there are mortal monsters lurking even closer than you think.

The World of Lore series includes:
MONSTROUS CREATURES â€¢ WICKED MORTALS â€¢ DREADFUL PLACES
Country USA
Manufacturer Del Rey
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2018-05-29
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Del Rey
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2018-05-29
Format	Kindle eBook

The World of Lore: Wicked Mortals

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