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The London Monster - A Sanguinary Tale (Paperback, Revised)
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The London Monster - A Sanguinary Tale (Paperback, Revised)
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"The facts in this case are so bizarre that no novelist would have
dared to invent them," said the "Philadelphia Inquirer," Indeed. A
century before Jack the Ripper haunted the streets of London,
another predator held sway: a "vulgar-looking man" who slashed at
female pedestrians with a knife while uttering profanities with a
"tremulous eagerness"--over fifty victims during a two-year crime
spree. The city was gripped with fear, outrage, and "Monster
mania." The latter was abetted by a 100 reward and by the
circulation of bawdy prints that capitalized on the Monster's
tendency to slash his victims' buttocks. Armed vigilantes roamed
the streets, and fashionable ladies dared not walk outdoors without
first strategically placing cooking pots under their dresses.
Finally, in June 1790, one Rhynwick Williams was arrested. After
two long and ludicrous trials (at one of which he was defended
energetically by the eccentric Irish poet Theophilus Swift),
Williams was convicted. Was he guilty? Or just unlucky enough to
fall into the hands of authorities when they needed someone to pay?
Drawing on contemporary evidence and reinterpreting Monster mania
in the light of historical and modern instances of mass hysteria,
Jan Bondeson recounts with dry wit a tale that occupies a unique
place in criminal history and imagination.
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