Cannibal Killers: Monsters with a Taste for Murder

Anthropophagy, or humans eating their fellow humans, is a topic of revulsion and fascination, especially when perpetrated by a sadistic serial killer. Moira Martingales' book, Cannibal Killers: The Impossible Monsters, originally published in 1993, debunks the assumption that cannibalistic murderers do not exist in the real world and tracks the phenomenon of cannibalistic murderers throughout history, from Sawney Bean to Jeffrey Dahmer and others. This updated edition reveals that cannibals are still among us and have moved online to find their victims.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 352 pages
Publication date: 07 July 2022
Publisher: Ad Lib Publishers Ltd

Anthropophagy, the act of humans consuming their fellow humans, elicits a peculiar mix of repulsion and fascination. When the perpetrator is a murderer, particularly a sadistic serial killer, the crime becomes not only shocking but also bewildering. In 1993, Moira Martingales published a comprehensive study titled Cannibal Killers: The Impossible Monsters. At that time, the Internet was in its infancy, computers were scarce in homes, and the character Hannibal Lecter from the book and movie The Silence of the Lambs was considered entirely fictional, with no real-world counterparts or inspirations. However, the book proved this assumption to be false. Translated into several languages and widely utilized as a resource by students pursuing criminology degrees, it traced the phenomenon of cannibalistic murderers throughout history, spanning from the monstrous Sawney Bean, who slaughtered and devoured hundreds of travelers in Scotland five hundred years ago, to Jeffrey Dahmer, Andrei Chikatilo, Ed Kemper, and Issei Sagawa—all solitary individuals harboring their most heinous secrets.

Then, the World Wide Web emerged. In this extensively revised edition, we witness that in the twenty-first century, cannibals who thirst for human flesh and blood still exist, and alarmingly, they have ventured online to seek their victims.

Weight: 274g
Dimension: 129 x 197 x 26 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781802470338