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Brian Masters


Born
in London, England, The United Kingdom
May 25, 1939

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Brian Masters is a British writer best known for his biographies of mass murderers, including Killing for Company, on Dennis Nilsen; The Shrine of Jeffrey Dahmer; She Must Have Known, on Rosemary West; and The Evil That Men Do. He has also written about the British aristocracy and worked as a translator.

Average rating: 3.83 · 6,723 ratings · 614 reviews · 43 distinct worksSimilar authors
Killing for Company: The Ca...

3.77 avg rating — 4,062 ratings — published 1985 — 26 editions
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The Shrine of Jeffrey Dahmer

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"She Must Have Known" The T...

3.68 avg rating — 404 ratings — published 1996 — 14 editions
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Comment analyser les gens: ...

3.41 avg rating — 109 ratings4 editions
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POSITIVE THINKING: Easy sel...

4.09 avg rating — 44 ratings4 editions
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The Dukes : Origins@@ Ennob...

3.88 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 1980 — 11 editions
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The Evil That Men Do: From ...

3.59 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 1997 — 6 editions
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Georgiana

3.70 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 1981 — 3 editions
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French Short Stories

4.40 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1998 — 2 editions
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Maharana: The Story of the ...

3.60 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1990 — 5 editions
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“Shower while there were two dead bodies in the bathtub, and he was sane. He drilled holes in the heads of living people to make them his unresisting companions, and he was sane. He ate a bicep which he fried in a skillet, tenderised and sprinkled with sauce, and he was sane. For hours he lay with corpses, hugging them, cherishing them, and he was sane. He kept eleven assorted heads and skulls, and two complete skeletons, for eventual use in a home-made temple, and he was sane.”
Brian Masters, The Shrine of Jeffrey Dahmer

“Reality poisons the spring of fantasy, whereas fantasy, when it erupts into the real world, brings destruction in its wake.”
Brian Masters, The Shrine of Jeffrey Dahmer

“Anonymous sex, he wrote, ‘only deepens one’s sense of loneliness and solves nothing.”
Brian Masters, Killing for Company: Case of Dennis Nilsen

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