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Voodoo Killers: Slavery, Sorcery and the Supernatural
The art of murder knows many forms, but few are more harrowing than murder committed for reasons of the supernatural or for ritual purposes. Supposedly serving a higher cause, they are often little more than self-gratifying acts to satisfy a blood-lust. VOODOO KILLERS chronicles the disturbing history of ritualistic killing around the world, with shocking examples of human sacrifice from past and present, voodoo hexes, sexual slavery and satanic murder. It is a history that incorporates vampires, serial killers, rapists and kidnappers as well as practitioners of institutionalised killing such as the Aztec high priests and Spanish Inquisitors who murdered in the name of religion. Murder does not come much worse than this - premeditated, organised, ritualised and, in the past, accepted as permissible. The Voodoo Killers stand alone in the annals of horror.
- GenresTrue Crime
448 pages, Paperback
First published July 1, 2011
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August 1, 2018
Amongst an eclectic compilation of gruesome historic facts, recollections and folklore from around the world are human sacrifice, kidnapping, slavery, torture, rape, cannibalism, vampirism, the occult, witchcraft, voodoo, Satanism, religious persecution, hate crimes, megalomaniacal cults, and murders with a supernatural twist.
Included are the Spanish Inquisition, the Salem Witch Trials, the Ku Klux Klan, serial killers (Zodiac, Son of Sam, Robert Berdella), the Manson Family, and Josef Fritzl.
Just enough to whet the appetite and send you off for further reading.
Included are the Spanish Inquisition, the Salem Witch Trials, the Ku Klux Klan, serial killers (Zodiac, Son of Sam, Robert Berdella), the Manson Family, and Josef Fritzl.
Just enough to whet the appetite and send you off for further reading.
October 20, 2011
About fifty pages in. Amazing facts about the murderous sects that roam the world.
Some people were/are pure evil and humanity is not always something to be proud about.
Some small editing errors show a sloppy approach by the publisher, but they are few and far between.
Some people were/are pure evil and humanity is not always something to be proud about.
Some small editing errors show a sloppy approach by the publisher, but they are few and far between.
December 31, 2016
Very historically interesting, lots of grammatical errors and wording mistakes. Did anyone actually read or edit the final copy before it was published?
March 26, 2021
This book is poor in so many areas, I can't believe a publisher like Little Brown went anywhere near it.
First of all, the title is totally misleading. Of all the entries I think there may be 2 or 3 that touch on voodoo. I full expect the title is insulting to practitioners of voodoo as in my limited understanding, it is not, as has been misrepresented in Hollywood etc, a religion that promotes killing or sacrifice of any kind. Some (most) of the entries included under each subheading don't remotely correlate; for example, under Ritual Murder and Satanic Killing, there are two instances of mass suicide. The author has clearly just collected a bunch of particularly brutal crimes and tried to shoehorn them into categories that make zero sense.
The content of each entry reads like lazy, sensationalist journalism - you'd hear similar from a ghost tour leader. The author's constant correlation between satanic murders and heavy metal is particularly irksome; 99% of my friends are into metal or rock music, most have long hair and dress in black and I can assure you they're a happy, healthy bunch of people. As for the constant assertion that this or that person 'dressed as a Goth' ...... Aaaarrgh!! We don't dress as 'Goths' - that's an ancient tribe. We are 'goths' - part of an alternative subculture centred on our love of goth music. We don't 'cake our faces' in make up and we certainly don't all worship the devil!!
And then on top of it all, we have the typos, misspellings, endless misplaced commas, weird grammar... did NOBODY proofread this thing???
Gah. What a mess.
First of all, the title is totally misleading. Of all the entries I think there may be 2 or 3 that touch on voodoo. I full expect the title is insulting to practitioners of voodoo as in my limited understanding, it is not, as has been misrepresented in Hollywood etc, a religion that promotes killing or sacrifice of any kind. Some (most) of the entries included under each subheading don't remotely correlate; for example, under Ritual Murder and Satanic Killing, there are two instances of mass suicide. The author has clearly just collected a bunch of particularly brutal crimes and tried to shoehorn them into categories that make zero sense.
The content of each entry reads like lazy, sensationalist journalism - you'd hear similar from a ghost tour leader. The author's constant correlation between satanic murders and heavy metal is particularly irksome; 99% of my friends are into metal or rock music, most have long hair and dress in black and I can assure you they're a happy, healthy bunch of people. As for the constant assertion that this or that person 'dressed as a Goth' ...... Aaaarrgh!! We don't dress as 'Goths' - that's an ancient tribe. We are 'goths' - part of an alternative subculture centred on our love of goth music. We don't 'cake our faces' in make up and we certainly don't all worship the devil!!
And then on top of it all, we have the typos, misspellings, endless misplaced commas, weird grammar... did NOBODY proofread this thing???
Gah. What a mess.
August 27, 2018
HOW do books get printed without any kind of proofreading or editing? This was horrible. The stories didn't really have anything to do with the title, vague references, maybe. Everyone involved with putting this book out should be ashamed of this one.
September 13, 2018
Whoever edited this should be shot. The book was interesting, but poorly titled. Very little Voodoo. There was also no citation or bibliography of any kind.
January 13, 2015
I am just reading this because I'm morbid and somewhat obsessive. It's not very well written. See below for examples:
- Typos
- Weird tags that make it sound like people shot themselves instead of being shot by the killers
- Murders placed into categories that I cannot see them falling under, in order to flesh out the different parts of the book (e.g. Racists who beat and shot a boy in the "Voodoo Curses and Hexes" part)
- 8000000 grammatical errors (the number, of random commas alone, makes this, painful, to read)
I wouldn't recommend this to any of my friends. That makes me sad.
- Typos
- Weird tags that make it sound like people shot themselves instead of being shot by the killers
- Murders placed into categories that I cannot see them falling under, in order to flesh out the different parts of the book (e.g. Racists who beat and shot a boy in the "Voodoo Curses and Hexes" part)
- 8000000 grammatical errors (the number, of random commas alone, makes this, painful, to read)
I wouldn't recommend this to any of my friends. That makes me sad.
August 17, 2012
Not particularly accurate, but it's a good, interesting read laid out in a way that makes you want to keep those pages turning...
March 16, 2016
this is a very good book actually more of a history book than anything scary but good none the less.
May 10, 2016
Not as well written as it could have been. I think the author tried to fit too much information into short snippets. Still an interesting read though.
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