Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction: Idols of Destruction: Celebrity, Consumerism, and the Serial Killer 1
5. Part one: A history of serial murder
6. 1. The Victorian Killer as Media Star: Jack the Ripper and H. H. Holmes 31
7. 2. Defining the Enemy Within: The FBI and Serial Murder 66
8. Part two: Serial murder in american popular culture
9. 3. Natural Born Celebrities: Serial Killers and the Hollywood Star System 105
10. 4. Out of This World: Aliens, Devils, and Serial Killers in Television Crime Drama 138
11. 5. Next Door Monsters: The Dialectic of Normality and Monstrosity in True-Crime Narratives 175
12. 6. The Unbearable Straightness of Violence: Queering Serial Murder in True Crime 209
13. Epilogue: Serial Killing in America after 9/11 244
14. Notes 259
15. Word cited 285
16. Index 311