15 Serial Killers by Harold Jaffe - ISBN: 9780974503103
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Exploring dangerous territory, Jafee uses illustrations, letters, monologues, interviews, and “unsituated dialogues” to bring to life some of the most infamous serial killers of all time.

15 Serial Killers

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  • Paperback

    180 pages

  • Release Date

    6 October 2003

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Summary

If you enjoy the show Mind Hunter–

Taking as his text Georges Bataille’s insight that “only at the extremes is there freedom,” critically acclaimed “guerrilla writer” Harold Jaffe documents Bataille’s aperçu with 15 bone-chilling illustrations. Manson, Starkweather, Speck, Son of Sam, the Night Stalker, Aileen Wuornos, the Unabomber, Dahmer, Bundy, Gacy, Kemper, Kevorkian and Kissinger are not merely present and accounted for, they are rendered into a “reality TV” th…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780974503103
ISBN-10:097450310X
Author:Harold Jaffe, Joel Lipman
Publisher:Raw Dog Screaming Press
Imprint:Raw Dog Screaming Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:180
Release Date:6 October 2003
Weight:236g
Dimensions:216mm x 140mm x 10mm
What They're Saying

Critics Review

15 Serial Killers is probably the most encompassing and compelling work on the subject you’re likely to read. – Absinthe Literary Review Harold Jaffe shines a distinctly contemporary light on the pervasive unthinking assumptions of our current culture. – Electronic Book Review Looks at serial killers through a unique point of view that resists glamorization, and…is philosophically and narratologically rich. – Jeffrey R. Di Leo, American Book Review

About The Author

Harold Jaffe

Harold Jaffe is the author of thirteen previous works of fiction or docufiction, including Terror-Dot Gov (2005), 15 Serial Killers (2002), Sex for the Millennium (1999), and Beasts (1986). Among other honors, he has been the recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships. He is the long-time editor-in-chief of one of our most significant journals of avant-garde prose, Fiction International.

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