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(0)Gavin Baddeley
Author
Publisher
Canelo History
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
A war hero, a mass murderer and a Gothic legend the world has never forgotten
...Vlad the Impaler is one of history’s most compelling and brutal characters, with a bizarre afterlife as a cult horror sensation. A hero to his countrymen, Vlad Dracula is a byword for dread. Not just for generations of Western fans of Gothic fiction and film, but also for an appalled and fascinated 15th-century readership, for whom contemporary accounts of Dracula’s
Author
Publisher
Canelo History
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Five brutal murders shocked London in the summer and autumn of 1888. They have never been forgotten.
...The Jack the Ripper case has never been solved - the killer remains a blood-spattered silhouette. Although ‘Jack’ as an entity was almost certainly invented by an unscrupulous journalist, he became an archetype - decked in the top hat and cloak of a Victorian melodrama villain, stalking the fog-wreathed streets of the old East End. The numerous