| Author: | Niklas Stephenson | ISBN: | 9781370609871 |
| Publisher: | Niklas Stephenson | Publication: | April 15, 2018 |
| Imprint: | Smashwords Edition | Language: | English |
| Author: | Niklas Stephenson |
| ISBN: | 9781370609871 |
| Publisher: | Niklas Stephenson |
| Publication: | April 15, 2018 |
| Imprint: | Smashwords Edition |
| Language: | English |
BLOODBURSTS describes the true story of Fritz Haarmann, The Werewolf of Hannover. Haarmann who was accused and convicted of raping and mutilating the bodies of up to twenty-four young men in Hannover, Germany between the years 1918 and 1924. Evidence he had sold the victims clothes and their ground up bodies to a local restaurant was overwhelming. His trial lasted fourteen days and resulted in his execution by the guillotine.
Inspiration for "Bloodbursts" comes from exhaustive research into Haarmann’s story and the concept I found in Albert Camus’ The Stranger, a novel that explores “the nakedness of man faced with the absurd,” through the character Meursault, who committed senseless, unmotivated murder. Haarmann had a lot against him. Sexually abused as a child, diagnosed with multiple psychological disorders, and a homosexual in a time when homosexuality was a crime, he struggled through an absurd (the quality of condition of existing in a meaningless and irrational world) era in German history.
I seek not to glorify the atrocious acts of Haarmann; rather, to examine how the absurdity of life can provide the “motive” for heinous criminal behavior. "Bloodbursts" is fiction based on facts. It’s a story of horror, an attempt to explain the acts of a killer, faced with the absurd, from his perspective.
BLOODBURSTS describes the true story of Fritz Haarmann, The Werewolf of Hannover. Haarmann who was accused and convicted of raping and mutilating the bodies of up to twenty-four young men in Hannover, Germany between the years 1918 and 1924. Evidence he had sold the victims clothes and their ground up bodies to a local restaurant was overwhelming. His trial lasted fourteen days and resulted in his execution by the guillotine.
Inspiration for "Bloodbursts" comes from exhaustive research into Haarmann’s story and the concept I found in Albert Camus’ The Stranger, a novel that explores “the nakedness of man faced with the absurd,” through the character Meursault, who committed senseless, unmotivated murder. Haarmann had a lot against him. Sexually abused as a child, diagnosed with multiple psychological disorders, and a homosexual in a time when homosexuality was a crime, he struggled through an absurd (the quality of condition of existing in a meaningless and irrational world) era in German history.
I seek not to glorify the atrocious acts of Haarmann; rather, to examine how the absurdity of life can provide the “motive” for heinous criminal behavior. "Bloodbursts" is fiction based on facts. It’s a story of horror, an attempt to explain the acts of a killer, faced with the absurd, from his perspective.
