Words of a Monster: Analyzing the Writings of H.H. Holmes, America's First Serial Killer

Rebecca Frost

Words of a Monster: Analyzing the Writings of H.H. Holmes, America's First Serial Killer
Format
Paperback
Publisher
McFarland & Co Inc
Country
United States
Published
5 June 2019
Pages
215
ISBN
9781476677040

Words of a Monster: Analyzing the Writings of H.H. Holmes, America’s First Serial Killer

Rebecca Frost

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Decades before the coining of the term serial killer, H.H. Holmes murdered dozens of people in his now-infamous Chicago Murder Castle. In his own autobiography, Holmes struggled to define himself in the language of the late nineteenth century. As the first -or, as he labeled himself, The Greatest Criminal of the Age -he had no one to compare himself to, and no ready-made biographical structure to follow. Holmes was thus nearly able to invent himself from scratch. This book uses Holmes’ writings and confessions to inspect how the Arch Fiend represented himself. Although the legitimacy of Holmes’ personal accounts have been called into question, his biography mirrors the narrative structure of the true crime genre that emerged decades after his death.

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