Download or read book Criminally Insane The Series written by Douglas Clegg and published by Alkemara Press. This book was released on 2015-12-11 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From New York Times bestselling author Douglas Clegg, a three-book box set of the complete Criminally Insane series. In southern California, the Darden State Hospital for Criminal Justice is packed with sociopaths and murderers. And sometimes, they escape… Includes the full-length novels: Book 1: Bad Karma “Escape me? Never…” – Beautiful but deadly Agnes Hatcher is the most ruthless sociopathic killer that the hospital for criminal justice has ever known. And she wants out – now. From award-winning novelist Douglas Clegg comes a fast-paced suspense thriller of heart-pounding terror set along the Southern California coast. Book 2: Red Angel A relentless killer has struck again — and the innocent victims are found with bird wings around their neck. Called the Red Angel killer — and terrifying southern California residents — he is hunted by rookie cop Jane Laymon and Trey Campbell. Book 3: Night Cage Douglas Clegg brings us back to the terrifying corridors of the Darden State Hospital for Criminal Justice. As fires rage in the hills above the hospital, Bloody Mary and her son “Doc” are on a murdering rampage in southern California.
Download or read book Criminally Insane written by Douglas Clegg and published by Alkemara Press. This book was released on 2019-03 with total page 826 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This box set edition of the Criminally Insane series includes the first three novels of this series: Bad Karma, Red Angel, and Night Cage. Originally these were published under Douglas Clegg's pseudonym, Andrew Harper.They can each be found in ebook separately, but this edition gathers them in one place -- for the first time ever.All three books in the Criminally Insane series center around Trey Campbell as her journeys from psych tech to psychologist, working in and around the Darden State Hospital for Criminal Justice -- and the world's most terrifying serial killers, including Agnes Hatcher -- known as the Surgeon -- who believes that she and Trey are reincarnated soul from another life...that involved murdering...and a special brand of Bad Karma.And Michael Scoleri, who seems to be in psychic communication with another serial killer -- called Red Angel -- beyond the high razor-wired fences of Darden State...And the mother-and-son duo, Bloody Mary Chilmark and Doc, who find strange ways to play doctor in the Night CageThree terrifying thrillers, all wrapped up in one big ebook for your late night thrillerfests.
Download or read book Bad Karma written by Douglas Clegg and published by Alkemara Press. This book was released on 2017-04-04 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Darden State Hospital for Criminal Justice is taking its toll on Trey Campbell, a psychiatrist who treats the insane. His dreams are filled with the sight of their dead eyes, by the sound of their anguished screams. He is haunted by images of blood-stained uniforms, broken bodies, and broken minds. In other words, Trey Campbell needs a vacation. "You shouldn't have left me alone," she whispers.Between the jagged cliffs of San Pedro and the crystal blue waters off Catalina Island there is nothing but peace and isolation. For Trey, his wife, and their two children, it is just the sanctuary they need. For two weeks, life will be good. Better than good. And the best part is no one will be able to find them... "I will not be ignored." Once, Agnes Hatcher was a suburban school teacher, a member of the Junior League and a subscriber to the Los Angeles Philharmonic. She also had a fondness for knives that earned her the nickname, the Surgeon. Today she is the most brilliant and brutal psychopath at Darden State. In her twisted fantasy life she shares an unbreakable karma with the man she believes to be her devoted lover. But this weekend Trey has abandoned her. And Agnes is feeling very unforgiving. "I'm coming for you." Now darkness has fallen on the Campbells' isolated vacation retreat. A diabolical game of wits is about to begin. Because what Agnes has planned for Trey and his family is beyond anything any of them can imagine...
Download or read book Criminally Insane written by Conrad Jones and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-12-05 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intense suspense thriller that draws the reader into the dark underworld alongside the police who attempt to do battle with it. Product Description Conrad Jones, nominated for a 'Gold Dagger' award 2014 An intense suspense thriller that draws the reader into the dark underworld alongside the police who attempt to do battle with it. The discovery of a brutally murdered young woman in an abandoned factory unit draws Detective Alec Ramsay and his Major Investigation team into a complex web of crime in Liverpool's underworld in this gripping thriller from acclaimed suspense writer Conrad Jones.
Download or read book Insane written by Alisa Roth and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An urgent exposéf the mental health crisis in our courts, jails, and prisons America has made mental illness a crime. Jails in New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago each house more people with mental illnesses than any hospital. As many as half of all people in America's jails and prisons have a psychiatric disorder. One in four fatal police shootings involves a person with such disorders. In this revelatory book, journalist Alisa Roth goes deep inside the criminal justice system to show how and why it has become a warehouse where inmates are denied proper treatment, abused, and punished in ways that make them sicker. Through intimate stories of people in the system and those trying to fix it, Roth reveals the hidden forces behind this crisis and suggests how a fairer and more humane approach might look. Insane is a galvanizing wake-up call for criminal justice reformers and anyone concerned about the plight of our most vulnerable.
Download or read book Behind the Gates of Gomorrah written by Stephen Seager and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2015-01-02 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psychiatrist Stephen Seager was no stranger to locked psych wards when he accepted a job at California's Gorman State hospital, known locally as 'Gomorrah', but nothing could have prepared him for what he encountered when he stepped through its gates, a triple sally port behind the twenty-foot walls topped with shining coils of razor wire. Gorman State is one of the nation's largest forensic mental hospitals, dedicated to treating the criminally insane. Unit C, where Seager was assigned, was reserved for the 'bad actors', the mass murderers, serial killers, and the real-life Hannibal Lecters of the world. Against a backdrop of surreal beauty - a campus-like setting where peacocks strolled the well-kept lawns - is a place of remarkable violence, a place where a small staff of clinicians are expected to manage a volatile population of prison-hardened ex-cons, where lone therapists lead sharing circles with psychopaths, where homemade weapons and contraband circulate freely, and where patients and physicians often measure their lives according to how fast they can run. Behind the Gates of Gomorrah affords an eye-opening look inside a facility to which few people have ever had access. Honest, reflective, and at times darkly funny, Seager's gripping account of his experiences at Gorman State hospital give us an extraordinary insight into a unique and terrifying world, inhabited by figures from our nightmares.
Download or read book Psychos written by John Skipp and published by Black Dog & Leventhal. This book was released on 2012-09-25 with total page 970 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of thirty-eight terrifying tales of serial killers at large, written by the great masters of the genre, plumbs the horrifying depths of a deranged mind and the forces of evil that compel a human being to murder, gruesomely and methodically, over and over again. From Hannibal Lecter (The Silence of the Lambs) to Patrick Bateman (American Psycho), stories of serial killers and psychos loom large and menacing in our collective psyche. Tales of their grisly conquests have kept us cowering under the covers, but still turning the pages. Psychos is the first book to collect in a single volume the scariest and most well-crafted fictional works about these deranged killers. Some of the stories are classics, the best that the genre has to offer, by renowned writers such as Neil Gaiman, Amelia Beamer, Robert Bloch, and Thomas Harris. Other selections are from the latest and most promising crop of new authors. John Skipp, who is also the editor of Zombies, Demons and Werewolves and Shapeshifters, provides fascinating insight, through two nonfiction essays, into our insatiable obsession with serial killers and how these madmen are portrayed in popular culture. Resources at the end of the book includes lists of the genre's best long-form fiction, movies, websites, and writers.
Download or read book Guilty by Reason of Insanity written by Dorothy Otnow Lewis, Ph.D. and published by Ivy Books. This book was released on 2009-02-04 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A psychiatrist and an internationally recognized expert on violence, Dorothy Otnow Lewis has spent the last quarter century studying the minds of killers. Among the notorious murderers she has examined are Ted Bundy, Arthur Shawcross, and Mark David Chapman, the man who shot John Lennon. Now she shares her groundbreaking discoveries--and the chilling encounters that led to them. From a juvenile court in Connecticut to the psychiatric wards of New York City's Bellevue Hospital, from maximum security prisons to the corridors of death row, Lewis and her colleague, the eminent neurologist Jonathan Pincus, search to understand the origins of violence. GUILTY BY REASON OF INSANITY is an utterly absorbing odyssey that will forever change the way you think about crime, punishment, and the law itself.
Download or read book Couple Found Slain written by Mikita Brottman and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Mikita Brottman is one of today’s finest practitioners of nonfiction.” —The New York Times Book Review Critically acclaimed author and psychoanalyst Mikita Brottman offers literary true crime writing at its best, taking us into the life of a murderer after his conviction—when most stories end but the defendant's life goes on. On February 21, 1992, 22-year-old Brian Bechtold walked into a police station in Port St. Joe, Florida and confessed that he’d shot and killed his parents in their family home in Silver Spring, Maryland. He said he’d been possessed by the devil. He was eventually diagnosed with schizophrenia and ruled “not criminally responsible” for the murders on grounds of insanity. But after the trial, where do the "criminally insane" go? Brottman reveals Brian's inner life leading up to the murder, as well as his complicated afterlife in a maximum security psychiatric hospital, where he is neither imprisoned nor free. During his 27 years at the hospital, Brian has tried to escape and been shot by police, and has witnessed three patient-on-patient murders. He’s experienced the drugging of patients beyond recognition, a sadistic system of rewards and punishments, and the short-lived reign of a crazed psychiatrist-turned-stalker. In the tradition of One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, Couple Found Slain is an insider’s account of life in the underworld of forensic psych wards in America and the forgotten lives of those held there, often indefinitely.
Download or read book Ravencroft written by Frank Tieri and published by Marvel Entertainment. This book was released on 2020-12-09 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects Ravencroft (2020) #1-5. Ravencroft’s history has been shrouded in mystery for years — but no longer! In the wake of ABSOLUTE CARNAGE, the past of the Ravencroft Institute for the Criminally Insane has started to unravel — revealing hidden chapters in the lives of some of the Marvel Universe’s most recognizable heroes and villains! Efforts to reconstruct Ravencroft are well underway, but the ruins of its history are there to be explored — by Misty Knight, John Jameson, Mister Fantastic…and Mayor Wilson Fisk, the onetime Kingpin of Crime! Prepare to learn how the Institute cast its dark shadow over the villains called Carnage and Sabretooth — not to mention the lord of the undead, Dracula himself! But what does Ravencroft’s hidden history have to do with a sinister scientist named Nathaniel Essex?
Download or read book Night Cage written by Douglas Clegg and published by Alkemara Press. This book was released on 2014-11-07 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beneath the hospital for the criminally insane, there's an older asylum...full of night cages... In Book 3 of the Criminally Insane Series, New York Times bestselling author Douglas Clegg blends psychological action-suspense with a twist of psychic horror as he unlocks the dangerous corridors of the Darden State Hospital for Criminal Justice in southern California for the most terrifying mother-son murder team in history. "Bloody Mary" Chilmark is certifiable -- just ask her doctor. The Darden State Hospital is home to the most dangerous psychopathic killers in the country. But Bloody Mary got out, and raised her baby away from that bad environment. She kept him in a cage...where he began to see dead people, all the time. Especially the ghosts of those he's killed... What a mother she turned out to be -- raising her son, "Doc" with her traditional family values, which often involved surgery -- because her son just has a knack for cutting people open. But Doc's been arrested, processed and held at Darden State -- and is considered one of the most dangerous of the hospital's inmates. When wildfires burn out of control in Southern California, authorities face the overwhelming task of relocating hundreds of Darden's patients to other prison hospitals before the raging inferno descend In the frenzy, "Bloody Mary" finds her opportunity to free her son. It's up to Trey Campbell and officer Jane Laymon to hunt for the mother-son duo in the dark underworld maze of the old asylum beneath the hospital. The Criminally Insane Series: Book #1, Bad Karma Book #2, Red Angel Book #3, Night Cage Author Note: Night Cage was originally published under the author's pen name, Andrew Harper. Books by Douglas Clegg Afterlife Goat Dance Purity Dark of the Eye The Words Wild Things The Children's Hour The Criminally Insane Series: Bad Karma Red Angel Night Cage The Harrow Series: Nightmare House Mischief The Infinite The Abandoned The Hour Before Dark You Come When I Call You Naomi The Nightmare Chronicles The Machinery of Night Isis The Necromancer With more to come… Praise for Douglas Clegg's fiction "Clegg is the best horror writer of the post-Stephen King generation." -- Bentley Little, author of The Policy "Clegg delivers!" -- John Saul, bestselling author of Faces of Fear and The Devil's Labyrinth. "Douglas Clegg has become the new star in horror fiction." -- Peter Straub author of Lost Boy, Lost Girl and the New York Times Bestseller Black House (with Stephen King) "Clegg's stories can chill the spine so effectively that the reader should keep paramedics on standby." -- Dean Koontz "Clegg is one of the best!" -- Richard Laymon "Douglas Clegg is a weaver of nightmares!" -- Robert R. McCammon author of The Queen of Bedlam and Speaks The Nightbird.
Download or read book The Asylum Confession written by Jack Steen and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-15 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They arrive alive. They leave dead.But first, they give me their confessions.My name is Jack Steen. That name shouldn't mean anything to you. Unless you're about to die. And then I'm your bloody guardian angel. I work as a night nurse in the Asylum for the criminally insane. My name is the only real name you'll find in this book. I won't tell you which hospital I work at. I won't tell you the names of those dying.But I won't lie to you.You'll read exactly what I'm told. If you're smart, if you're deranged enough to read between the lines, you'll know who is telling the story.They could be playing their final game with me by messing with my head. Now, maybe they're messing with yours too.Inside this book are 4 confessions: One has an interesting 'appetite'. One was the Ken to his Barbie, and he would do anything to keep her happy.Another is a Nanny, but not one you want watching your kids.The other is the sweetest soul you'd ever meet but you'll have a hard time reading her confession. WARNING: There is swearing in this book. And some stories might be a trigger for something you have a hard time handling. But, these are the confessions of serial killers, mass murderers and such. NOTE: These once were published as novellas. Now they're in a full length novel. Deal with it.Want to read the next set of Confession books? Sign up for my mailing list - I'm told all the real authors have one, so I figured why not
Download or read book The Criminally Insane written by Terence Thornberry and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1979-04 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Criminally Insane is the largest scale in-depth follow-up study on mentally ill criminals yet to appear. This book challenges the assumption that inmates of maximum-security mental hospitals are extraordinarily violent and questions the necessity for maintaining maximum-security institutions which currently house some 15,000 persons in the United States. In 1971, 586 patients were released from a Pennsylvania maximum-security hospital for the criminally insane. They were not considered officially "cured," but a federal court held that their commitments had been unconstitutional. Through exhaustive examination of hospital and police records and interviews with hospital administrators and the subjects themselves, Thornberry and Jacoby assess the processes by which the patients had been retained in confinement, the impact of their release upon their communities, and their ability to adjust to the freedom of community life. The authors demonstrate that the patients did not display a significant level of violent behavior during confinement, nor did they pose a major threat to society after release. In fact, their social and psychological adjustment to community life is shown to have been comparable to that of non-criminal mental patients. Yet despite these findings the subjects had been retained in maximum-security confinement for an average of fourteen years because they were predicted to be violent and "dangerous" to society. The authors explain this inaccuracy by a process called "political prediction," in which clinicians avoid any potential risks to the community, the reputation of their hospitals, and their careers by consistently overpredicting dangerous behavior. The Criminally Insane will stimulate response from professionals in a wide variety of fields, including law, criminology, psychiatry, and sociology, and from anyone concerned with society's responsibility to the mentally ill offender.
Download or read book Night Cage written by Douglas Clegg and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Night Cage is the third novel in the Criminally Insane Series by Douglas Clegg."Bloody Mary" Chilmark is certifiable -- just ask the doctors at the Darden State Hospital for the Criminally Insane. The Darden State Hospital is home to the most dangerous psychopathic killers in the country. But Bloody Mary got out, and raised her baby away from that bad environment.She kept him in a cage...And what a mother she's turned out to be -- raising her son, "Doc" with her traditional family values, which often involve surgery -- because her son just has a knack for cutting people open. But Doc's been arrested, processed and held at Darden State -- and is considered one of the most dangerous of the hospital's guests.Doc got his nickname because he like to perform surgeries...But when wildfires burn out of control in Southern California, authorities face the overwhelming task of relocating hundreds of Darden's patients to other prison hospitals before the raging inferno descend In the frenzy, "Bloody Mary" finds her opportunity to free her son. It's up to Trey Campbell and officer Jane Laymon to hunt for the mother-son duo in the dark underworld maze of the hospital itself.
Download or read book Careers of the Criminally Insane written by Henry J. Steadman and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Red Angel written by Douglas Clegg and published by Alkemara Press. This book was released on 2014-11-08 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oh, to be young, handsome -- and criminally insane. He calls himself Abraxas. Written on his skin: Suffer the Children to Come Unto Me. New York Times bestselling author Douglas Clegg releases a new and relentless serial killer -- the Red Angel -- within this page-turning thrill ride into paranormal suspense and psychological terror, set at a hospital for criminal justice in sun-drenched southern California. Among the neighborhoods full of lovely palm trees and clear blue swimming pools of California, a new killer is hunting. Pursued by rookie cop Jane Laymon and psychologist Trey Campbell, this murderer's pathology may be linked to inmate Michael Scoleri -- AKA Abraxas -- at the Darden State Hospital for Criminal Justice. Do they communicate with their minds? The young man in the straitjacket doesn't want the Red Angel to be caught. But his skin holds the name of an upcoming victim. And up on Moon Lake, in the San Bernardino mountains, a terrifying killer plans to descend into the valley to find his next victim. For fans of James Patterson, Dean Koontz and Thomas Harris. "Douglas Clegg knows exactly what scares us, and he knows how to twist those fears into hair-raising chills..." -- Tess Gerritsen, New York Times Bestselling Author. The Criminally Insane Series: Book #1, Bad Karma Book #2, Red Angel Book #3, Night Cage
Download or read book Deathbed Confessions of the Criminally Insane written by Jack Steen and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My name is Jack Steen. That name shouldn't mean anything to you. Unless you're about to die. And then I'm your bloody guardian angel. I work as a night nurse in a hospital for the criminally insane. You picked up this book because of the title, right? Deathbed Confessions of the Criminally Insane. That's exactly what you're about to read. Here are the first three stories of my 'collection'. The Well Marker The Funeral Director The Babysitter My name is the only real name you'll find in this book. I won't tell you which hospital I work at. I won't tell you the names of those dying. But I won't lie to you. You'll read exactly what I'm told. If you're smart, if you're deranged enough to read between the lines, you'll know who is telling the story. These sadistic bastards could be playing their final game with me by messing with my head. Now, maybe they're messing with yours too. Basically, I'm starting you off with the easiest story. - Bucket from the Well Marker was probably my favorite patient/inmate. - The Funeral Director isn't for those with a weak stomach. OR if you've recently attended a funeral. - The Babysitter...well, let's just say Ken is a sick fuck and there's no love loss between the two of us. You can get each confession as it's own book or read them here in this one. There will be more confessions coming so if you like what you read, you'll want to keep an eye out.
