Richard Tithecott is an administrative director at the University of Southern California. He is coeditor of the Signet Classic edition of My Secret Life: An Erotic Diary of Victorian London.

In this post-modern reading, Jeffrey Dahmer is not a page in the history of true crime but a Monster who serves many rhetorical and cultural functions." —Philip Jenkins, Penn State University, author of Using Murder: The Social Construction of Serial Homicide"Brilliantly compelling. Tithecott challenges us to investigate our simultaneous distancing from and fascination with serial murder."—Maria Tatar, Harvard University, author of Lustmord: Sexual Murder in Weimar Germany"Tithecott takes aim at the unsettling disparity of attention between murderer and murdered."—Chris Bull, Washington Post