
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.
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.
A prolific writer of boys’ adventure stories, he also spent years as a newspaper editor and publisher in Iowa. His books mix frontier action, invention, and the fast-moving spirit of early twentieth-century juvenile fiction.
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