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Cannibal Killers is a comprehensive study of the terrible phenomenon of the human flesh eater. Far from being the outdated practice of obscure tribes in distant jungles, cannibalism is practiced uncomfortably close to home in cities around the world even today. Cannibals have been found in the cities of America and Europe, in the provinces of revolutionary China, on the "Fatal Shore" of colonial Australia and in the open lifeboats of a wrecked ship. The grisly stories in this collection of people eating human flesh come from many different eras and from all over the world.

The earliest evidence of cannibalism is believed to date from about 6,000 years ago, found in a shallow refuse pit used by Stone Age cave dwellers in present-day France, though many anthropologists dispute that cannibalism has ever been systematically practiced by human beings. Scientific debate continues about whether the Aztecs ate human flesh and whether to do so was considered ethically and socially acceptable among New Guinea islanders. This book, however, is neither an argument for or against the reality of cannibalism, nor a history of the subject, but a casebook of some of the more notorious flesh-eaters in what are thought of as "civilized" parts of the world.