The World of Lore: Wicked Mortals

This illustrated volume from the host of the Lore podcast, Aaron Mahnke, features stories from the Lore podcast, now a streaming television series. This explores the infamous characters, such as William Brodie, a Scottish cabinetmaker who preyed on Edinburgh citizens, H.H. Holmes, a notorious con artist, and Bela Kiss, a Hungarian tinsmith with a taste for the occult. Brodie's rampant criminality inspired Robert Louis Stevenson's novella Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Holmes's terror at Chicago's 1893 World's Fair, and Bela Kiss's collection of gasoline drums with women's bodies. The book is filled with accounts of history's most heinous real-life fiends, leaving readers to wonder if there are mortal monsters lurking even closer than they think. The best-of-the-worst roundup will haunt your thoughts and leave you wondering if there are mortal monsters lurking even closer than you think.

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