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Even as a child in Gilmanton, New Hampshire, Herman Mudgett was considered a lad with a future, a boy who professed filial devotion while secretly fantasizing his parents' deaths. By age eleven he was conducting secret experiments on small animals and strays, becoming skilled at disabling his subjects without killing them. In 1886 he appeared in the Chicago suburb of Englewood, Illinois, and introduced himself as Dr. H. H. Holmes to the wife of the ailing owner of Holton's drugstore. He was hired on the spot, and under his management the store prospered. But when Holmes's attempt to purchase the drugstore from Mrs. Holton went sour, and she sued him, she inexplicably disappeared - never to be seen or heard from again. As Jack the Ripper was terrorizing London, Holmes was building his infamous "Castle," a grandiose residence and veritable fortress bristling with battlements and turrets. He hired and fired a succession of workmen to build the castle, thus eliminating witnesses to its secrets: a labyrinth of trapdoors, winding passageways, dark dead-end halls, stairways to nowhere, bedchambers fitted with peepholes and asphyxiating gas pipes, soundproof vaults and torture chambers, gr
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- Author
- Schechter, Harold
- Publisher
- New York: Pocket Books
- Published
- 1994
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780671732165
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Social Science, Fiction, Memoir
- Rating
- 3.91 / 5 (28 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
Other editions & translations
- Depraved : the definitive true story of H.H. Holmes, whose grotesque crimes shattered turn-of-the-century Chicago (1994)
- Depraved : the definitive true story of H.H. Holmes, whose grotesque crimes shattered turn-of-the-century Chicago (2008)
- Depraved: The Definitive True Story of H H Holmes, Whose Grotesque Crimes Shattered Chicago (2006)
- Depraved : the definitive true story of H.H. Holmes, whose grotesque crimes shattered turn-of-the-century Chicago (2004)
- Depraved: The Definitive True Story of H H Holmes, Whose Grotesque Crimes Shattered Chicago (2004)
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