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  • The World of Lore, Volume 2: Wicked Mortals

  • Now a major online streaming series
  • By: Aaron Mahnke
  • Narrated by: Aaron Mahnke
  • Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (75 ratings)

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The World of Lore, Volume 2: Wicked Mortals

By: Aaron Mahnke
Narrated by: Aaron Mahnke
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Summary

A chilling, lavishly illustrated who's-who of the most despicable people ever to walk the earth, featuring both rare and best-loved stories from the hit podcast Lore, now an online streaming series.

Here are the incredible true stories of some of the mortals who achieved notoriety in history and folklore through horrible means. Monsters of this sort - serial killers, desperate criminals, and socially mobile people with a much darker double-life - are, in fact, quite real . . . including H. H. Holmes, the infamous Chicago serial killer; William Brodie, the Edinburgh criminal mastermind who inspired The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde; and Bela Kiss, a Hungarian tinsmith with a most disturbing hobby: collecting women in gasoline drums.

As Aaron Mahnke reminds us, sometimes the truth is even scarier than the lore.

©2018 Aaron Mahnke (P)2018 Random House Audio
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It's good but covers a lot of the same ground as the podcast. Either or?

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Loved the Lore podcast. Aaron Mahnke is just so good at narrating and keeping you gripped.

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Enjoyed this one much more than the first one.

Excellent selection of familiar and new narratives. Fun tone but it does feel a bit Westernised.

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