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I have enjoyed reading this book due to liking anything that is dark, macabre, creepy, disturbing, weird or unexplained, it inspires my dark and vivid imagination.
It's interesting to read about murderers that are a Cannibal, Vampire or or Werewolf that I haven't always heard of.
This book is not for the squeamish or the faint of heart, and there is a entry about specific animals beings eaten as well, so if you can handle the gruesome & gut wrenching graphic detail in this type of book, either don't read it or listen to a audiobook version of it, so you can at least pause it if you get overwhelmed, or feel physically sick like I did while reading this book.
My favourites are:
“Ethne the Dread”
“The Rough Grey Dog-man”
“The Monster of East Lothian”
“Sawney Beane” (Alexander “Sawney” Beane)
“Bluebeard” A.K.A (Gilles de Rais)
“The Werewolf of Dole”
“The Blood countess” or “The Bloody Countess” (Elizabeth Bathory)
“The Witches' Pie”
“The Edinburgh Body-Snatcher”
“The Demon Barber of Paris”
“The Custom of the sea”
“The Bread & Butter Brides”
“The Düsseldorf Monster”
(Peter Kürten A.K.A “The Düsseldorf Vampire”)
” The Vampire Killer” (“The Acid Bath Murderer”) John George Haigh
“The Psycho-Killer” A.K.A “The Butcher of Plainfield” Ed Gein
“The Cannibal of Bois De Bolougne” (Issei Sagawa)
“The man that made zombies” (Zombified sex slaves)
“The Milwaukee Cannibal” Jeffrey Dahmer
“The Ripper of Rostov” Andrei Chikatilo
“Satan's Disciples”
“The Internet Cannibal” (Armin Meiwes used the Dark Web to access the “Cannibal Café”)
“The real Hannibal Lector?”
I'm surprised that there hasn't been any entry so far about a cannibal or Vampire murderer that specifically drank the blood of babies, infants or animals blood.
Or the symbolic aspect of Christianity that is Vampiric & Cannibalistic.
Gilles de Rais was a cannibal, Vampire, that was a Occultist/Satanist & he practiced black magick, he committed Vampirism & Cannibalism as part of a ritual, to summon demons.
He used Alchemy to attempt to create gold to gain more wealth for himself.
Except possibly Elizabeth Bathory he is the only other
cannibal-vampire/Occultist/Satanist that was a cannibal & vampire for a spiritual reason & purpose.
The spiritual aspect of Vampirism, Cannibalism or Lycanthropy is not often mentioned but it is interesting to me at least to read about.
I'm not sure why Elizabeth Bathory never attempted to gain immortality because it seems like she would have wanted to live forever if it was possible.
Some of the entries about cannibals in the book are disturbing and disgusting to read about, Gilles de Rais, Elizabeth Bathory, Ethne the Dread and the cannibal troops the “Babe-eaters” & “Bloodybones” as they were referred to.
So if you don't like reading about people historically & ritualistically sacrificing babies, children, animals drinking their blood or eating them then maybe this book isn't for you.
It made me feel sick & disgusted sometimes, but I have a dark and vivid imagination so it inspires my dark & vivid imagination