Author Dory Maust

Dory Maust

Books about Serial Killers

Books by Marilyn Z. Tomlins:

•        Murderous Mothers
•        Daisy de Melker: South Africa's First Serial Killer
•        Dr. Petiot Will See You Now
•        Murder in Versailles
•        The Austrian Ogre: The Case That Shocked the World

Books by David Lohr:

•        Night Stalker
•        Richard Speck
•        Ted Bundy: The Poster Boy of Serial Killers
•        Boy Killer: John Wayne Gacy
•        The Mollala Forest Killer

Books by Other Authors:

•        Blood Stained: When No One Comes Looking by Dory Maust
•        Jack the Ripper’s Victims by Denise M. Clark
•        The Serial Killer the Cops Ignored by Jason Lapeyre
•        America’s First Known Serial Killers: The Harps, Big and Little by Doris Lane
•        Randy Kraft: The Southern California Strangler by J.J. Maloney
•        Henry Lee Lucas by Bonnie Bobit
•        Adoption Forensics: The Connection Between Adoption and Murder by Dr. David Kirschner
•        The Serial Killer Letters: A Penetrating Look Inside the Minds of Murderers by Jennifer Furio
•        The A to Z Encyclopedia of Serial Killers by Harold Schechter
•        The Serial Killer Files: The Who, What, Where, How, and why of the World's Most Terrifying Murderers by Harold Schechter
•        Zodiac Unmasked: The Identity of America's Most Elusive Serial Killers Revealed by Robert Graysmith
•        The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers by Michael Newton
•        Why: The Serial Killer in America by Margaret Cheney
•        Compulsion to Kill [Time-Life]
•        Serial Murder by Robert W. Dolan
•        The Killers among Us: An Examination of Serial Murder and Its Investigation by Steven A. Egger
•        Human Monsters: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of the World's Most Vicious Murderers by David Everitt
•        Compulsion to Kill by Laura Foreman
•        Overkill: Mass Murder and Serial Killing Exposed by Alan James Fox and Jack Levin
•        The World's Worst Murderers by Charles Franklin

How does it feel to write about a real serial killer? I've been asked this too many times
to count, but I am not the first author to tackle it, nor will I be the last. This is obviously
not a new subject matter and like everything else in life opinions form from
perceptions. Some of us have a strange fascination for the abnormal. Why do these
people do these things? What shapes their minds and characters?

Serial killers are a different breed, mandated by the governing principles of their own
private wars. Some are garden variety, some are copy cats and some are incredibly
unique.

I'm certainly not a minority in this realm; documentaries, films, books, articles (the list
goes on and on) are a hot topic these days and not just for consumers. Law
enforcement officials and forensic doctors are constantly delving for more information
on what makes the serial killer tick for the obvious reasons of prevention and capture.
To deny the road into their minds and deny an opportunity to save more lives is
irresponsible as a society.

But it goes further.

Incarcerated, these "caged animals" have lost their power to instill fear in society, and
so then the inquiring public mind wants to know - WHY? Why did you do that? In a
strange twist of fate some individuals develop a deeper, more personal and intimate
fascination with these men and women. Gamers now have a plethora of software to
live out fantasies of the ultimate warriors - no matter how dark. To control the dark
side, one has to understand the dark side.

I've put together a semi-extensive list of books written about serial killers. If there's a title missing that you have read and found informative
please CONTACT me and let me know what title it is, who the author is and I will add it.