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A review by timgrubbs
The Devil Aspect by Craig Russell
5.0
If disease can be spread among individuals, then is true evil similarly contagious? A young doctor will attempt to prove his theory of the devil’s existence by interviewing half a dozen truly wicked killers…
The Devil Aspect: The Strange Truth Behind the Occurrences at Head Orlu Asyum for the Criminally Insane by Craig Russell is unfortunately historical fiction…about the existence of madness and evil…
Dr Viktor Kosarek is a young doctor in Czechoslovakia in 1935. He has been given the opportunity to interview the Devil’s Six, the infamous occupants of an asylum without a former castle-prison…itself allegedly built in the very Gates of Hell.
Meanwhile, a seventh killer stalks women with police unable to apprehend him. Will there soon be a seventh notorious murderer admitted to the asylum?
This novel is essentially interview with the Vampire meets Silence of the Lambs.
Rather than learning about the Devil’s Six third hand, we are treated to intense interviews with each six individually…giving us a look into their minds and backgrounds…as well as their attempts to deflect and blame someone else for their crimes.
Are they deluded madpeople…or are they truly innocent and the Devil is the guilty one?
This was a deeply fascinating story.
The author did a wonderful job crafting various folklore and dark histories to the setting which are sadly entirely made up. I kind of wish many of the historical details he inteoduces had more basis in fact.
I highly recommend this one…
The Devil Aspect: The Strange Truth Behind the Occurrences at Head Orlu Asyum for the Criminally Insane by Craig Russell is unfortunately historical fiction…about the existence of madness and evil…
Dr Viktor Kosarek is a young doctor in Czechoslovakia in 1935. He has been given the opportunity to interview the Devil’s Six, the infamous occupants of an asylum without a former castle-prison…itself allegedly built in the very Gates of Hell.
Meanwhile, a seventh killer stalks women with police unable to apprehend him. Will there soon be a seventh notorious murderer admitted to the asylum?
This novel is essentially interview with the Vampire meets Silence of the Lambs.
Rather than learning about the Devil’s Six third hand, we are treated to intense interviews with each six individually…giving us a look into their minds and backgrounds…as well as their attempts to deflect and blame someone else for their crimes.
Are they deluded madpeople…or are they truly innocent and the Devil is the guilty one?
This was a deeply fascinating story.
The author did a wonderful job crafting various folklore and dark histories to the setting which are sadly entirely made up. I kind of wish many of the historical details he inteoduces had more basis in fact.
I highly recommend this one…