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Killing For Company

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by Brian Masters


  7 Philip Rahv, in Dostoeivsky, a Collection of Critical Essays, ed. René Wellek (Prentice-Hall, New Jersey, 1962).

  8 Ibid., p. 25.

  9 Robert P. Brittain, ‘The Sadistic Murderer’, Medicine, Science and the law, vol. 10, no. 4 (1970), pp. 198–207.

  10 NP, vol. XLI, p. 1.

  11 DN to BM, 26 June 1983.

  12 N. Blackman, J.M.A. Weiss and J.W. Lamberti, ‘The Sudden Murderer’, Archives of General Psychiatry, vol. 8 (1963), p. 289; J. Satten et al., ‘Murder without Apparent Motive’, American Journal of Psychiatry, vol. 117 (1960), pp. 48–53.

  13 NP, vol. XLI, p. 2.

  14 Marvin E. Wolfgang and Franco Ferracuti, The Subculture of Violence (Tavistock Publications, London, 1967).

  15 Anthony Storr, Human Aggression (Allen Lane, London, 1969), p. 87.

  16 Ibid., p. 88.

  17 NP, vol. XXII, p. 21.

  18 See Chapter 9.

  19 NP, vol. XXI, pp. 39 and 45.

  20 NP, vol. XXVII, p. 10.

  21 NP, vol. XXXVII, p. 1.

  22 NP, vol. XXII, p. 9.

  23 NP, vol. XXVI, p. 10.

  24 NP, vol. XXVIII, p. 15.

  25 NP, vol. XLI, p. 8.

  26 NP, vol. XLI, p. 10.

  27 Frederic Wertham, Dark Legend (Victor Gollancz, London, 1947).

  28 Konrad Lorenz, On Aggression (Methuen, London, 1966), p. 210.

  29 Ibid., p. 94.

  30 S. Reichard and C. Tillman, ‘Murder and Suicide as Defences against Schizophrenic Psychosis’, Journal of Clinical Psychopathy, vol. II (1950), p. 149.

  31 K. Menninger and M. Mayman, ‘Episodic Dyscontrol: A Third Order of Stress Adaptation’, Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic, vol. 20 (1956), p. 153.

  32 Wertham, op. cit., p. 99.

  33 J. Satten et al., op. cit., pp. 48–53.

  34 Colin Wilson, Criminal History of Mankind (Granada, London, 1984).

  35 Wertham, op. cit., pp. 96–7.

  36 NP, vol. XXXVII, pp. 5–7.

  37 Karl Berg, The Sadist (Acorn Press, London, 1938).

  38 NP, vol. XXIV, p. 13.

  39 George Meredith, ‘Modern Love’ (Rupert Hart-Davis, London, 1948), p. xliii.

  40 NP, vol. XXXVII, p. 8.

  41 J.M. Reinhardt, Sexual Perversions and Sex Crimes (Charles Thomas, Springfield, Illinois, 1957).

  42 P. Friedman, ‘The Phobias’, American Handbook of Psychiatry, vol. I (1959).

  43 A. Bartholomew, K. Milte and F. Galbally, ‘Homosexual Necrophilia’, Medicine, Science and the Law, vol. 18, no. 1(1978).

  44 E. Moll, Handbuch von sexualen Wissenschaften (1912).

  45 NP, vol. XLI, p. 1.

  46 NP, vol. XIX, p. 15.

  47 NP, vol. XXII, p. 25.

  48 NP, vol. XXII, p. 13.

  49 C.M. Eddy Jnr, ‘The Loved Dead’, in Collected Ghost Stories, ed. August Derleth (1952). I am grateful to Colin Wilson for bringing this story to my notice.

  50 NP, vol. XLVI, page prepared for Dr MacKeith.

  51 NP, vol. XLIX, p. 1.

  52 NP, vol. L, pp. 7–8.

  53 Abraham Maslow, Motivation and Personality (Harper & Row, New York, 1954).

  54 Colin Wilson, Order of Assassins (Rupert Hart-Davis, London, 1972), p. 39.

  55 Ibid., p. 3.

  56 J. Paul de River, The Sexual Criminal (Charles Thomas, Springfield, Illinois, 1958).

  57 Martin Israel, The Spirit of Counsel, p. 132.

  58 Iris Murdoch, The Philosopher’s Pupil (Chatto & Windus, London, 1983), p. 76.

  59 St Augustine, Confessions, Bk V.

  60 Iris Murdoch, op. cit., p. 511.

  61 NP, vol. XXIX, p. 14.

  62 NP, vol. XXIV, p. 13.

  63 NP, vol. V, p. 26.

  64 NP, vol. XLIX, p. 4.

  65 NP, vol. XLVII, p. 11.

  66 J. Satten et al., op. cit.

  67 Stephen Michaud and Hugh Aynesworth, The Only Living Witness (1983), pp. 123, 288.

  68 NP, vol. XXX, p. 62.

  69 Marie Corelli, Poems (Hutchinson, London, 1925), p. 8.

  70 James Hogg, Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, ed. John Carey (Oxford University Press, 1981), passim.

  71 NP, vol. VII, p. 3.

  72 DN to BM, 4 May 1983.

  73 NP, vol. XLIX, pp. 11–14.

  74 NP, vol. IXA, pp. 1–2.

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