Art imitates life, and life can be horrifying. Every axe-murdering psychopath the ever stalked the pages of a thriller novel owes their existence to a real world killer. Fiction has its basis in fact, and the fact is, planet Earth is not a very nice place. Man eating beasts, cannibal murderers, this world has seen it all. While good horror fiction can haunt our dreams, real-life horror stories disturb our waking ours. The cosmic writers’ room that governs our reality has come up with some seriously chilling plot twists over the years, and these novels are inspired by the real life monsters that make our world a worse place. These are 10 books based on horrifying true stories, for the true crime lover in you.
