32 Most Horrifying Serial Killer Books
Get ready to see the darkest side of humanity.
By
MacKenzie Stuart | Updated Nov 21, 2019 | Published Feb 21, 2019
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Buried Dreams
By Tim Cahill
Dead Ends
By Joseph Michael Reynolds
John Christie of Rillington Place
By Jonathan Oates
Serial Killers: The World's Most Evil
By Nigel Blundell
The Bayou Strangler
By Fred Rosen
The First Celebrity Serial Killer in Southwest Ohio
By Richard O Jones
The Red Ripper
By Peter Conradi
The Shadow of Death
By Philip E. Ginsburg
In the Mind of a Female Serial Killer
By Stephen Jakobi
Monster Slayer
By Robert Scott
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Murder & Mayhem in Seattle
By Teresa Nordheim
Why We Love Serial Killers
By Scott Bonn
Butcher, Baker
By Walter Gilmour and Leland E. Hale
Fred & Rose
By Howard Sounes
A Thirst for Blood
By Lt. Ray Biondi and Walt Hecox
Brady and Hindley
By Fred Harrison
Die for Me
By Don Lasseter
The Hillside Stranglers
By Darcy O'Brien
Serpentine
By Thomas Thompson
The Truth about Belle Gunness
By Lillian de la Torre
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The Search for the Green River Killer
By Carlton Smith and Tomas Guillen
Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters
By Peter Vronsky
The Stranger Beside Me
By Ann Rule
The Michigan Murders
By Edward Keyes
Zodiac: The Shocking True Story of the Hunt for the Nation's Most Elusive Serial Killer
By Robert Graysmith
Female Serial Killers: How and Why Women Become Monsters
By Peter Vronsky
My Friend Dahmer
By Derf Backderf
Nobody’s Women: The Crimes and Victims of Anthony Sowell, the Cleveland Serial Killer
By Steve Miller
The Night Stalker
By Philip Carlo
The Monster of Florence
By Douglas Preston & Mario Spezi
Killer Clown: The John Wayne Gacy Murders
By Terry Sullivan & Peter T. Maiken
Mindhunter
By John E. Douglas & Mark Olshaker
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