The Book of Phobias and Manias

Ein faszinierender und amüsanter Leitfaden für unsere Obsessionen und Ängste Schrecken Sie beim Anblick einer Spinne zurück oder zucken Sie, wenn Ihr Handy nicht in Reichweite ist? Grenzen Ihre Bücherkaufgewohnheiten an Bibliomanie? Zählen Sie alles um sich herum oder springen auf einen Stuhl, wenn Sie eine Maus sehen? Unsere Phobien und Manien sind so widersprüchlich wie vielfältig und haben eine lange Geschichte.Kate Summerscale führt uns - vom Mittelalter bis in die unmittelbare Gegenwart - mit außer­gewöhnlichen Geschichten von A bis Z durch das faszinierend-bizarre Labyrinth des menschlichen Unbewussten, unserer Faibles, Leidenschaften und Obsessionen. Tauchen Sie ein in dieses spannende und fesselnde Kompendium.

In March 1953, London police discovered the bodies of three young women hidden in a wall at 10 Rillington Place, a dingy terrace house in Notting Hill. On searching the building, they found another body beneath the floorboards, then an array of human bones in the garden. They launched a nationwide manhunt for the tenant of the ground-floor flat, a softly spoken former policeman called Reg Christie.The story was an instant sensation. The star reporter Harry Procter chased after the scoop on Christie. The eminent crime writer Fryn Tennyson Jesse begged her editor to let her cover the case. To Harry and Fryn, Christie seemed a new kind of murderer: he was vacant, impersonal, a creature of a brutish post-war world. Christie liked to watch women, they discovered, and he liked to kill them. They realised that he might also have engineered a terrible miscarriage of justice. On Christie's evidence, another man had hanged three years earlier for a double murder in 10 Rillington Place.In this riveting true story, Kate Summerscale mines the archives to uncover the lives of Christie's victims, the tabloid frenzy that their deaths inspired, and the truth about what happened inside the house. What she finds sheds fascinating light on the origins of our fixation with true crime, and suggests a new solution to one of the most notorious cases of the century.

FROM BRITAIN'S TOP-SELLING TRUE CRIME WRITER AND THE #1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE SUSPICIONS OF MR WHICHERA BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR: The Times/Sunday Times, Financial Times, Spectator, Independent, Tablet and New Statesman?Once more, Kate Summerscale shatters our preconceptions of a classic crime' Val McDermid'I really, really loved it. It's written so beautifully and it really makes you feel like you're in the 1950s' Richard Osman?Every bit the gripping, page-turning treat' Mark Bostridge, SpectatorLondon, 1953. Police discover the bodies of three young women hidden in a wall at 10 Rillington Place, a dingy terrace house in Notting Hill. On searching the building, they find another body beneath the floorboards, then an array of human bones in the garden. But they have already investigated a double murder at 10 Rillington Place, three years ago, and the killer was hanged. Did they get the wrong man?A nationwide manhunt is launched for the tenant of the ground-floor flat, a softly spoken former policeman named Reg Christie. Star reporter Harry Procter chases after the scoop. Celebrated crime writer Fryn Tennyson Jesse begs to be assigned to the case. The story becomes an instant sensation, and with the relentless rise of the tabloid press the public watches on like never before. Who is Christie? Why did he choose to kill women, and to keep their bodies near him? As Harry and Fryn start to learn the full horror of what went on at Rillington Place, they realise that Christie might also have engineered a terrible miscarriage of justice in plain sight.In this riveting true story, Kate Summerscale mines the archives to uncover the lives of Christie's victims, the tabloid frenzy that their deaths inspired, and the truth about what happened inside the house.'A gripping account of murder, misogyny and spectatorship' Sarah Waters, author of Fingersmith'A forensic reappraisal of a grimy episode in postwar British history . . . Shocking, impeccably researched, lucidly written and always utterly compelling' Graeme Macrae Burnet, author of His Bloody Project'The queen of true crime' Laura Thompson, author of Take Six Girls

Anlamlandiramadigimiz mani ve fobilerimizin arkasinda ne yatiyor Bizi pencesine almis bu takintilardan kurtulmanin bir yolu yok mudur Peki, dünyada bunlari bir tek biz mi yasiyoruz Kate Summerscale, Fobiler ve Maniler Kitabi Adan Zye 99 Takintinin Izinde Dünya Tarihi ile sürükleyici vaka calismalari araciligiyla esasinda ortak olan iste bu korku ve arzularimizin kökenlerini ortaya cikarirken insan bilincinin labirentine bir kapi araliyor.Sayfalar arasinda dolasirken Alfred Hitchcockun yumurtalara olan tiksintisini kesfedecek, Steve Jobsun dügmelerden duydugu korkuyu anlamaya calisacak ve baska pek cok ünlünün gizli takintisi karsisinda hayrete düseceksiniz. Kate Summerscale titiz arastirmalari, sürükleyici anlatimi ve mizah dokunuslariyla 99 fobi ve mani icin bir rehber niteligi tasiyan bu eserde sizi insan psikolojisinin derinliklerine dogru bir kesif yolculuguna cikmaya davet ediyor ve soruyor Peki sizin gizli takintiniz var mi Bildigimiz fobilerden homofobi insani sasirtan yumurta, sac, sessizlik korkularina ve her seyden pantofobi korkmaya dek uzanan, okumayi birakmasi zor 99 hikaye Chicago Tribune Büyüleyici Son derece detayli ve her satiriyla aydinlatici olan bu kitap, insanlarin takintilarina iliskin eglenceli bir rehber. Publishers Weekly (lib)

THE PERFECT GIFT FOR ALL BIBLIOMANIACSA BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES, SPECTATOR AND DAILY MAILA WATERSTONES BEST POPULAR SCIENCE BOOK Plunge into this rich and thought-provoking A-Z compendium to discover how our fixations have taken shape, from the Middle Ages to the present day, as bestselling author Kate Summerscale deftly traces the threads between the past and present, the psychological and social, the personal and the political.'Fascinating' Malcolm Gaskill, author of the No. 1 bestseller The Ruin of All Witches'Fascinating' Observer'An endlessly intriguing book ... All the bibliomanes (book nutters) I know will love it' Daily Mail (lib)