‘The guillotine was the silent weapon of Nazi terror — and Johann Reichhart its most faithful servant.’While the world remembers the horrors of the concentration camps, few know of the other, quieter machinery of death that powered the Nazi regime – a judicial system that turned the art of execution into an industry.Hitler’s Headsmen reveals the untold story of the judges and executioners who enforced the tyranny of the Nazi regime, taking readers deep insi...

Harold Shipman, the worst know serial killer in British history, was determined to die. He tied a homemade noose around this throat and threw himself against his cell’s window in a desperate attempt to knock himself out. After several attempts Shipman succeeded and slowly asphyxiated while his leg smoldered and burnt on the iron-barred heater under the cell’s window.Shipman committed suicide so that his wife would be eligible for the full pension.Bluebeard, the monstrous Fr...

From cold-blooded calculation to fiery vengeance—discover how history's most notorious killers finally faced their fate!Step into the chilling world of some of history's most infamous killers and discover how their reigns of terror came to a brutal, often fitting end. Payback chronicles the lives, crimes, and ultimate fates of notorious figures like Harold Shipman, the most prolific serial killer in British history, whose meticulous plans for suicide were as calcul...

They were the last face their victims ever saw.From the swinging axe to the smoking electric chair, The Executioners, the second book in the gritty Payback series, steps into the shadowy world of history’s deadliest profession. These men didn’t just kill — they turned death into a craft shaped by ritual, rules, and cold necessity.Meet Johann Reichhart, the Nazi regime’s tireless guillotine operator who executed over 3,000 men and women with chilling efficie...

最危險的祕密組織！令人大開眼界的集會歷史•數千萬中國人因其而亡的太平天國、以肉身擋槍炮的義和團•殺害信徒或勸誘信徒自殺的米勒教派與大衛教派•生人活祭的阿茲特克、勒殺無辜旅人的圖基教派•神祕而有諸多傳說的光明會、共濟會、錫安長老教會•研發強大殺人武器的奧姆真理教•惡名昭彰的西班牙宗教裁判所、3K黨•現今世界菁英領袖創立的畢德堡會議……　　綜觀人類歷史，諸多惡名昭彰的異教與祕密會社已對無數人造成難以形容的苦難。而什麼樣的信仰會導致恐怖的殘殺？為何崇拜神明要伴隨可怕的暴力行為？本書帶領讀者踏上黑暗之旅，進入歷史上某些最危險、最隱密團體的神祕世界。包括熱切等待世界末日的宗教派別、嚴格控管並殺...

讀過本套套書，你會很慶幸活在這個時代　　本套書特色★ 從歷史中看人類如何懲罰他人，各種發揮想像力與執行力的刑罰，膽小者勿試。★ 探索人類獨有的祕密結社歷史，以及特定人士如何透過信仰與恐怖控制其他人類。★ 從歷史中記錄有案的例子來看各時代曾經發生過的重大疾病問題，以及應對的醫學發展，如何影響人類的生命與整體社會的關鍵。★ 每一本書中，蒐羅許多珍貴歷史圖像，全彩呈現，震撼視覺。　　　《人類恐怖創意血腥殘酷的刑罰史》沒有史上最殘酷刑罰，只有你想像不到的殘忍折磨！各種令人髮指的行刑歷史，讓人忍不住別開頭。•絞首、砍頭、車裂、五馬分屍……•活活燒死、千刀萬剮、剝頭皮……•西班牙宗教裁判所最愛的行刑方式•讓人全身痙攣、眼球爆裂，愛迪生難辭其咎•喝人血、烤人肉、磨骨粉、再來...

沒有史上最殘酷刑罰，只有你想像不到的殘忍折磨！各種令人髮指的行刑歷史，讓人忍不住別開頭。•絞首、砍頭、車裂、五馬分屍……還有各種行刑組合•活活燒死、千刀萬剮、剝頭皮……死太快還不行•西班牙宗教裁判所最愛的行刑方式……人類一受苦，上帝就發笑？•讓人全身痙攣、眼球爆裂，愛迪生瘋狂的電椅實驗……•喝人血、烤人肉、磨骨粉、再來份人肉臘腸，保證藥到病除……　　綜觀人類歷史，不管因為傷人性命、奪人財物，或是破壞社會秩序，加入邪教散播邪說，或甚至是無辜之人，不分年輕老少、不分男女種族，不分階級，都可能被迫死亡──死亡的方式五花八門，其中最重要的共通點則是──痛苦的死亡。從早期以蠻力、尖銳利器、重物如石頭來進行處決，隨著時間遞進，製...

看到歷史上腦洞大開的種種治療法，你會認真希望自己不會生病：• 若有女性想要懷孕，建議她可以喝馬的精液。• 穿狼皮可以治療皮膚癌。• 強效避孕法：以亞麻布包裹藥草，圍在脖子上。• 人們曾經相信，以主教的頭骨盛裝的水，喝了可以治療百日咳。在愛爾蘭，用牛奶煮綿羊排泄物，是治療百日咳的配方，萬一用藥無效，建議將病人扛起，越過驢子的上方、穿過驢子的下方，共九次。• 腮腺炎的治療方式如下：「用驢的套索套在病患頭上，並以此拉著病人繞行豬欄三圈。」• 治療一般感冒，可以在脖子上掛一袋煮熟的馬鈴薯。不然也可以在頭皮上塗抹烤馬鈴薯。　　如果沒生病，誰還會想看醫生！只是人不是機器，也非存在於毫無汙染的環境中，每個人的一生難免有過大大小小的病痛，不過現代...

The war is tearing our world apart. Instead of big armies with tanks in the field, the Vampire War is fought in the streets, neighbor against neighbor, family against family. Anyone can turn at any time. The blood hunger can suddenly appear in the middle of a kiss. The person who sleeps next to you every night could wake up in the dead of night … hungry. So hungry.V Wars: Night Terrors collects all-new stories from the reporters embedded with the beats (humans) and the blo...

"An enigmatic woman comes between a toxicologist and a murderer in this hypnotic and disturbing thriller" set in the shadowy fog of San Francisco ( Guardian, UK).Caleb Maddox is a San Francisco toxicologist studying the chemical effects of pain. He's out drinking after a bad breakup when a hauntingly seductive woman sits down beside him. He talks to Emmeline over absinthe, but their encounter is fleeting. She brushes her lips on his ear and disappears. He ...

They are hunting us.In this sweeping, threaded narrative of the global phenomenon known as the Vampire Wars, mankind is unwittingly infected by a millennia-old bacteria unknowingly exhumed by a scientific expedition in Antarctica. Now, in some rare cases, a person's so-called junk DNA becomes activated. Depending on their racial and ethnic heritage, they begin to manifest one of the many diverse forms of the "others" that are the true basis for the legends of supernatural creatures...

Bram Stoker Award-winner for Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction!Nightmares come to life in this comprehensive how-to guide for new and established authors…Book two in Crystal Lake Publishing's The Dream Weaver series picks up where the Bram Stoker Award-nominated Where Nightmares Come From left off.It's Alive focuses on learning the craft in order to take your story from concept to completion.With an introduction by Richar...