The World of Lore, Volume 2: Wicked Mortals: Now a Major Online Streaming Series

Aaron Mahnke

Headline Publishing Group, May 29, 2018 - Biography & Autobiography - 352 pages

A chilling, lavishly illustrated who's-who of the most despicable people ever to walk the earth, featuring both rare and best-loved stories from the hit podcast Lore, now an online streaming series.

Here are the incredible true stories of some of the mortals who achieved notoriety in history and folklore through horrible means. Monsters of this sort - serial killers, desperate criminals, and socially mobile people with a much darker double-life - are, in fact, quite real . . . including H. H. Holmes, the infamous Chicago serial killer; William Brodie, the Edinburgh criminal mastermind who inspired The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; and Bela Kiss, a Hungarian tinsmith with a most disturbing hobby: collecting women in gasoline drums.

As Aaron Mahnke reminds us, sometimes the truth is even scarier than the lore.

About the author

Aaron Mahnke is the writer, host, and producer of Lore, as well as the author of a number of supernatural thrillers. He has a deep love of the mysterious and frightening that began with Unsolved Mysteries and The X-Files-a love that continues to this day. Basically, he's a nerd for anything unexplainable or supernatural. Mahnke lives with his family in the historic Boston area, in the very heart of Lovecraft Country and the epicenter of the Salem witch trials. lorepodcast.com

Bibliographic information

• Title: The World of Lore, Volume 2: Wicked Mortals: Now a Major Online Streaming Series; Volume 2 of The World of Lore Series, Aaron Mahnke
• Author: Aaron Mahnke
• Publisher: Headline Publishing Group, 2018
• ISBN: 1472251601, 9781472251602
• Length: 352 pages
• Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / General; Comics & Graphic Novels / Horror; Fiction / Horror / General; Fiction / Mystery & Detective / General; Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Historical; Fiction / Occult & Supernatural; History / Social History; Performing Arts / General; Performing Arts / Television / Genres / Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror; Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social; Social Science / Folklore & Mythology