On Pieces of Garbage
Albert Fish
- Deranged, Harold Schechter
Andrei Chikatilo
- The Red Ripper, Peter Conradi
Belle Guiness
- Hell’s Princess, Harold Schechter
Bloody Benders
- Candle of the Wicked, Manly Wade Wellman
- The Saga of the Bloody Benders, Rick Geary
Boston Strangler(s)
- The Boston Stranglers, Susan Kelly
Carl Panzram
- Panzram: A Journal of Murder, Thomas E. Gaddis, James O. Long
Charles Manson
- Manson in His Own Words, Nuel Emmons
- Helter Skelter, Vincent Bugliosi, Curt Gentry
- Love, Sex, Fear, Death, Timothy Wyllie
Columbine
- Columbine, David Cullen
David Berkowitz/“Son of Sam”
- The Ultimate Evil, Terry Maury
- Son of Sam: The .44-Caliber Killer, George Carpozi Jr.
Dennis Nilson
- Dennis Nilsen, Russ Coffey
- History of a Drowning Boy, Dennis Nilson
Dennis Rader (BTK)
- My Boss was the BTK Killer, Mary Capps
EARONS
- I’ll Be Gone in the Dark, Michelle McNamara
Ed Gein (episide link, link, link)
- Deviant: The Shocking True Story of Ed Gein, Harold Schechter
- Ed Gein: Psycho, Paul Anthony Woods
Fred and Rose West
- The Corpse Garden, Colin Wilson
Gary Ridgeway
- Green River, Running Red, Ann Rule
Henry Lee Lucas
- Hand of Death, Max Call
H.H. Holmes
- The Devil in the White City, Erik Larson
John Wayne Gacy
- (John Wayne Gacy: Defending a Monster)[https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9650142-john-wayne-gacy], Sam L. Amirante, Danny Broderick
Jeffrey Dahmer
- My Friend Dahmer, Derf Backderf
- The Man Who Could Not Kill Enough, Anne E. Schwartz
- A Father’s Story, Lionel Dahmer
Joseph Kallinger
- The Shoemaker, Flora Rheta Schreiber
- Edge of Madness, Kim Cresswell
Marquis de Sade
O.J. Simpson
- If I Did It, O.J. Simpson
Richard Ramirez
- Night Stalker, Clifford L. Linedecker
- Night Stalker: The Life and Crimes of Richard Ramirez, Philip Carlo
Theodore J. Kaczynski (Unabomber)
- [Industrial Society and Its Future], (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/225468.Industrial_Society_and_Its_Future), Theodore J. Kaczynski
- Unabomber: A Desire to Kill, Robert Graysmith
William Pickton
- On the Farm, Stevie Cameron
Zebra Murders
- The Zebra Murders: A Season of Killing, Racial Madness, and Civil Rights, Prentice Earl Sanders, Bennett Cohen
Zodiac Killer
- Times 17, Gareth Penn
Profiling/Analysis
- Between Good and Evil, Roger L. Depue, Susan Schindehette
- Popular Crime: Reflections on the Celebration of Violence, Bill James
- Encyclopedia of Crime and Punishment, David Levinson
True Crime History & Analysis
Axe Murders
- With an Axe, H. Paul Jeffers
Jon Bennet Ramsey
- The Death of Innocence, John Ramsey, Pat Ramsey
- America’s Early Serial Killers, Mike Riley
- Serial Killers: Up Close and Personal, Christopher Berry-Dee
Occultism
Aleister Crowley
- Stealing Fire from Heaven, Nevill Drury
- The Book of Pleasure, Austin Osman Spare
- The Book of Law, Aleister Crowley
- Moonchild, Aleister Crowley
Chaos Magic
- Condensed Chaos: An Introduction to Chaos Magic, Phil Hine
- Liber Null and Psychonaut, Peter J. Carroll
Madame Blavatsky
- A Secret History of Consciousness, Gary Lachman
Satanism
- The Satanic Witch, Anton Szandor LaVey
- Damned, Robert Muchembled
- The Satanic Bible, Anton Szandor LaVey
- The Temple of Set, Michael A. Aquino
- The Temple of Set II, Michael A. Aquino
- The Zohar, Nathan Wolski
Magick
- The Power Of Magic, Derek & Julia Parker
- Serpent of Light, Drunvalo Melchizedek
- EULIS! The History of Love, Paschal Beverly Randolph
Ouija Boards
- Ouija: The Most Dangerous Game, Stoker Hunt
- Aleister Crowley and the Ouija Board, J. Edward Cornelius
- Psychic Self-Defense, Dion Fortune
Aliens
- I Know Why The Aliens Don’t Land!, Jeremy Vaeni
- The Utah UFO Display, Frank B. Salisbury
- Communion: A True Story, Whitley Strieber
- Secret Journey to Planet Serpo, Len Kasten
- They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers, Gray Barker
- Flying Saucers and the Three Men, Albert K. Bender
- Dimensions: A Casebook of Alien Contact, Jacques Vallée
- Secret Cipher of the Ufonauts, Allen Greenfield
- Raechel’s Eyes, Helen Littrell, Jean Bilodeaux
- Incident at Exeter, John G. Fuller
- The Armstrong Report, Virgil Armstrong
Roswell
- The Day After Roswell, Philip J. Corso
Thanks for this! I’m about to download my local library app and was wondering where to start with my digital reads. Haven’t read a proper books in ages but I have the ‘The Great Mortality’ sitting on my kitchen table staring at me. Waiting for me to make some ‘me time’ for horrific reading
Very welcome! Good luck with The Great Mortality, I’d be curious to know what you think of it once you’ve given it a go (and if it turns out to be the work referenced for the details on the plague flagellents, because that was wild and I’d be keen to pick it up for a little more information on those dudes).