The Homicidal Diary

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The Homicidal Diary

by Earl Peirce

EN·~44 minutes·1 chapter

Chapters

1 total

44:36

Description

The narrator, a longtime friend of a brilliant criminologist, writes to make sense of a terrifying series of head‑hunting murders that have shocked the city. He reflects on the clash between law, psychiatry, and dark folklore, offering a personal lens on a case that blurs academic study and macabre compulsion. The story promises a chilling exploration of how a respectable scholar could descend into weekly nocturnal violence.

Through letters, newspaper reports, and the narrator’s own observations, listeners are drawn into the tense atmosphere of the 1930s urban underworld, feeling the dread that builds as each new crime mirrors the last. The account balances clinical analysis with unsettling detail, making the listener question the boundaries between rational inquiry and supernatural influence. It’s a compelling, slowly unfurling true‑crime narrative that will keep you listening for clues and moral ambiguity.

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Language

en

Duration

~44 minutes (42K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Credits

Produced by Greg Weeks, Dan Horwood and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

Release date

2010-02-08

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

About the author

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Earl Peirce

A pulp-era horror writer with a knack for eerie, atmospheric tales, this American author published a run of stories in Weird Tales during the late 1930s. His best-known work, "Doom of the House of Duryea," helped keep his name alive among fans of classic weird fiction.

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