It focuses particularly on a series of murders allegedly committed in 1811 by john williams in the neighborhood of ratcliffe highway. Historicocritical inquiry into the origin of the rosicrucians. The notebook of an english opiumeater, and miscellaneous essays. For if once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing. The pleasures of opium it is so long since i first took opium that if it had been a trifling incident in my life i might. The project gutenberg ebook of the posthumous works of thomas. It centers around the character of john williams, a london serial killer who brutally massacred seven people in the 1810s. Why callest thou me murderer, and not rather the wrath of god. Goethe, as reflected in his novel of wilhelm meister. Confessions of an english opiumeater isbn 9781438559315 pdf.
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