This gripping volume explores the darker side of the human psyche by bringing together 15 of the most horrific and gruesome murder stories of the last century. It examines such killers as the self-confessed cannibal Kenneth Stogsdill; Michael Yarborough, who dismembered his victim before putting him in a trash can and down the toilet; and Fritz Haarmann, whose lust for blood was sated as he butchered teenage youths during World War I and sold their flesh for meat on the black market.