LORE 2: Wicked Mortals

I was very excited to dig into this second Lore book and pleased I received it from Amazon the day after its release date.

Wicked Mortals is a bit of a misleading title though, because not every chapter is about mortals who are wicked.

Don't expect your modern serial killers either. The ones in these pages aren't very recent.

The book opens with H. H. Holmes, the American serial killer from the late 1800s. Other serial killers include a few different ax men, Elizabeth Bathory and Belle Gunness.

Then there are stories from broader topics such as changelings, witches, witch hunters, spontaneous human combustion, body snatchers, possessions, and doppelgängers. There was at least one flat out ghost story.

There were also chapters on the inspiration behind Jekyll and Hyde, John Dee, different Christmas season creatures, the rabbit baby hoax, and the truth behind the Pied Piper.

I quite enjoyed this, as I did the first one. Perhaps this one a bit moreso, because there were more stories that were new to me.