Psychopaths are superficially charming but ultimately self-centred individuals possessed with the ability to manipulate others into predatory situations. This psychiatric anomaly, when combined with a violent or abusive childhood, mental illness or addictive personality can help to create that most feared and hated of human beings - the serial killer. Evil Psychopaths is not a book for the faint hearted It explores the lives and crimes of the deranged and dangerous who have practised and perfected the art of killing. ContentsEmperor Nero, Charles VI of France, Vlad the Impaler, The Borgias, Elizabeth Bathory, Ivan the Terrible, Peter Stubbe, John Lynch, Jack the Ripper, Thomas Neil Cream, H. H. Holmes, John Reginald Christie, John George Haigh, Dennis Nilsen, Peter Sutcliffe, Patrick Mackay, Baby Face Nelson, Ed Gein, Harvey Glatman, Albert De Salvo, John Wayne Gacy, Gary Heidnik, Jeffrey Dahmer, Ted Bundy, Ed Kemper, Richard Speck, Richard Ramirez, Bela Kiss, Henri Landru, Peter Kurten, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Andrei Chikatilo, Idi Amin, Pol Pot, Ivan Milat, Javed Iqbal, Gilles de Rais, Albert Fish, Ian Brady and Myra Hindley, Arthur Gary Bishop, Robert Black, Michael Fourniret, Belle Gunness, Mary Ann Cotton, Nannie Doss, Velma Barfield, Aileen Carol Wuornos, Ma Baker