The World of Lore, Volume 2: Wicked Mortals: Now a major online streaming series - The World of Lore (Paperback)
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The World of Lore, Volume 2: Wicked Mortals: Now a major online streaming series - The World of Lore (Paperback)

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Paperback 352 Pages
Published: 29/05/2018
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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.

Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
ISBN: 9781472251602
Number of pages: 352
Weight: 525 g
Dimensions: 232 x 155 x 27 mm


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Truth can often be much scarier than fiction - something Mahnke proves as he dives deep into the world of folklore and the darker side of history in a quest to root out the fragment of truth at the bottom of our fears. - Entertainment WeeklyUnlike so much horror that needs over-the-top viscera to scare you, this podcast leans on history - folklore, myth, the stuff people once thought were true - to tell its tales. - The AtlanticNarrated by Mahnke in a style that evokes spooky campfire stories, Lore is a history lesson like no other. - Esquire

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“Easy to read and thoroughly entertaining”

I loved the podcast Lore and this book by the same name is no different. I haven't read the first in the series, but that did not affect my enjoyment of this book.
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