Fresh Meat by Megan Derr

Author:Megan Derr [Derr, Megan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Poly, Paranormal, Gay, Romance, Bisexual
ISBN: 9781684315116
Publisher: Less Than Three Press, LLC
Published: 2019-06-12T04:00:00+00:00

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Author's Note

It can be tricky incorporating real people into fictional stories, especially when the individual in question is a terrible person who did truly awful things. They can be interesting, and add to the story, but using them thus can also risk glamorizing them, minimizing their crimes.

Such is the case with H.H. Holmes, incorporated into my Dance with the Devil series as Wyatt's grandfather. He was a very real serial killer, once relatively unknown in modern day but made 'popular' again by The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson.

His notorious Murder Hotel did exist after a fashion, though in reality it was a mixed-use building with apartments and such; the hotel portion was never actually completed. But it did have rooms with traps, chutes, and more, and a basement with vats of quicklime and a crematorium to dispose of bodies.

He is confirmed to have killed nine people but confessed to killing nearly thirty (many of which were easily proven false). We will likely never know the actual number. His victims were primarily women and children, though he also killed a few men. They could only convict him of one of the crimes (a child). He was also a con-artist, bigamist, and all around scumbag.

For the purposes of this story, I have relied heavily on the pulp fantasy versions of Holmes, which greatly exaggerated his life and crimes and suit my paranormal setting. But the real Holmes, while less 'glamorous', was just as evil as my and other fictional accounts have portrayed. He used, abused, and murdered his way through life, and deserved every second of the miserable execution he received.

May his victims, known and unknown, rest in peace.

~Megan

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