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"Even the most imaginative writers of fiction cannot equal the stark intensity and demented enthusiasm evident in the authentic writings of murderers." Thus Brian King introduces this collection of the writings and artwork of 37 men and women who expressed themselves primarily through the act of killing for pleasure (in German, Lustmord). The material includes diary entries, letters, scribbles found on walls or scraps of paper, poems, short stories, confessions, manifestoes, autobiographical statements, instructions on technique, maps, diagrams, drawings, photographs, and black-and-white photos of paintings and sculpture. John List, for example, uses words of eerie banality to explain why he killed his whole family: "I didn't want them to experience poverty." Charlie Starkweather, by contrast, conveys deep emotion: he says his heart has "a wildcatten hatred burned into it ... turning dark black with hate of rages." Lustmord is testimony to the bizarre workings of the murderous mind.
Headpress (U.K.), Spring 1997
"Brian King has adopted a fascinating criteria for inclusion: these are "pleasure-killers" who have sought to decipher, compliment or embellish their misdeeds with artwork or writings. . . . And while a number of these scribes can conduct - ahem - a "decent" story, many more can barely string a sentence together. Ironically, it is with the latter - in a R. D. Laing child-like innocence kind of way - that some of the choicest nuggets are to be had. . . . "Lustmord" is fuelled by obsessives who are out of control, trying desperately to grab the handrail of life before they fall off the ride. . . . a mighty hefty read that doesn't fail to deliver on a regular basis."
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"Even the most imaginative writers of fiction cannot equal the stark intensity and demented enthusiasm evident in the authentic writings of murderers." Thus Brian King introduces this collection of the writings and artwork of 37 men and women who expressed themselves primarily through the act of killing for pleasure (in German, Lustmord). The material includes diary entries, letters, scribbles found on walls or scraps of paper, poems, short stories, confessions, manifestoes, autobiographical statements, instructions on technique, maps, diagrams, drawings, photographs, and black-and-white photos of paintings and sculpture. John List, for example, uses words of eerie banality to explain why he killed his whole family: "I didn't want them to experience poverty." Charlie Starkweather, by contrast, conveys deep emotion: he says his heart has "a wildcatten hatred burned into it ... turning dark black with hate of rages." Lustmord is testimony to the bizarre workings of the murderous mind.
Headpress (U.K.), Spring 1997
"Brian King has adopted a fascinating criteria for inclusion: these are "pleasure-killers" who have sought to decipher, compliment or embellish their misdeeds with artwork or writings. . . . And while a number of these scribes can conduct - ahem - a "decent" story, many more can barely string a sentence together. Ironically, it is with the latter - in a R. D. Laing child-like innocence kind of way - that some of the choicest nuggets are to be had. . . . "Lustmord" is fuelled by obsessives who are out of control, trying desperately to grab the handrail of life before they fall off the ride. . . . a mighty hefty read that doesn't fail to deliver on a regular basis."
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