In this practical handbook, Jonathan Oates introduces the fascinating subject of criminal history, from the development of the justice system and policing to details about the transportation and sentencing of criminals.

A shattering death bed confession from a heartbroken mother might be the key to solving America’s oldest cold case in this gripping true crime account.

With a child on the way and the perfect new place to raise a family, Jan and her husband have been doubly blessed. But as Jan’s friend Annie learns the violent history of their new home, she comes to realize that what is growing in Jan’s body isn’t a miracle at all—it’s a mother’s most terrifying nightmare...

After years of hard work, Brian and Jeannie Legg retired to a life of leisure in their picture-perfect Phoenix mansion. Until their troubled son showed up with a need for cash—and a thirst for murder...

Two chilling horror novels from the international bestselling author

A mother witnesses a disturbing change in her 12-year-old son and a battered Ouija board hints at the presence of a terrifying evil in this pair of novels from “a superb storyteller, obviously every bit as talented as Stephen King” (Times Record News).

In June of 1645, an overwhelming stench drew a woman to the wine cellar of her Bolognese townhouse, where she discovered the remains of two missing nuns. Drawing on over four thousand pages of primary sources, Craig A. Monson reconstructs this fascinating history of crime and punishment in seventeenth-century Italy. 

This “immensely stimulating story of true crime down the ages” offers a sweeping history of human violence, from the ancient Assyrians to the Mafia (The Times, London).

“A tremendous resource for crime buffs as well as a challenging exposition for some of the more subtle criminological thinking of our time.” —Kirkus Reviews

“An ingenious revision” of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic Gothic horror story, told through the eyes of the central fiend himself (The New York Times Book Review).

"Cleverly imagined and sophisticated in execution." —Kirkus Reviews

On a mission to hunt down a terrorist who’s taken refuge in Afghanistan's remote Hindu Kush mountains, Major Josiah Key and his crew encounter bloodless corpses that lead them to confront one of the greatest evils in human history...

A former New York Times writer tells the horrifying true story of two cannibalistic killers who murdered—and then consumed—innocent victims in their grisly Florida crime spree.

Five chilling novels in one volume

These five iconic horror classics—Frankenstein, Dracula, Carmilla, The Great God Pan, and The Mysteries of Udolpho—gave birth to the monstrous myths that still inhabit our nightmares.

New York Times bestselling author

Bogeyman describes in dramatic detail the efforts of tenacious Texas lawmen to solve the cold case murders of three little girls and hold serial child killer David Elliot Penton accountable for his horrific crimes.

"Jackson gives a master class on true crime reporting in Bogeyman. He writes with both muscle and heart.” —Gregg Olsen, #1 New York Times bestselling author