Legends, Monsters, or Serial Murderers? The Real Story Behind an Ancient Crime dispels the interrelated misconceptions that serial murder is an American crime and a relatively recent phenomenon, making the novel argument that serial murder is a historic reality—an unrecognized fact in ancient times. Noted serial murderers such as the Roman Locutia (The Poisoner), who murdered Roman emperors and Catholic Popes, Gilles De Rais of France, a prolific serial killer of children; Andres Bichel of Bavaria; Angolan Queen N’zinga who was a cannibal, Countess Elizabeth Bathory, who murdered hundreds of virgins and bathed in their blood, and Chinese aristocratic serial killer T'zu-Hsi are spotlighted. This book provides a unique perspective that integrates supernatural interpretations of serial killing with the history of true crime, reanimating mythic entities of horror stories and presenting them as real criminals. Were vampires, werewolves and demons in fact real, or misinterpretations of the crimes committed by serial slayers?