An incredibly shocking and dark biography of Jeffrey Dahmer, one of the most famous serial killers in history, nicknamed the “Milwaukee Cannibal.” In the summer of 1991, a panic-stricken man, with his hands handcuffed, ran out of an apartment building and turned to patrol police officers. for help. Trembling with fear, he led them back to his captor's lair, where he found himself in a real hell. The apartment contained the remains of at least fifteen people: bodies in a huge barrel, a collection of skulls and a skeleton in a chest of drawers, and severed heads in the refrigerator. Polaroid photographs of mutilated bodies were attached to the freezer. After the arrest of 31-year-old Jeffrey Dahmer, investigators realized that they had stumbled upon the “real Hannibal Lecter”: the maniac said that he had saved a human heart to eat it. The bones of the victims, as planned by the killer, were to become part of his own altar - to honor the terrible beauty of death... How did a quiet employee of a chocolate factory turn into a sadist, necrophiliac and cannibal, whose crimes shocked the whole country? Psychological, terrifying and revealing, Jeffrey Dahmer's story reveals the most extreme and dark sides of human nature. “Brian Masters's first book, Killing for the Company, has deservedly become a classic of criminology. The second book, The Altar of Death, reveals layer by layer the killer's mentality with the skill of a Rembrandtian anatomist dissecting a body." - Literary Review "A compelling portrait of a young man descended into unspeakable madness... A riveting read." – The Daily Telegraph “Unsurpassed... The subject matter of the book is gruesome and repulsive, but the research itself is instructive.” – Independent