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The Axeman of New Orleans

Bibliography

Everitt, David.  Human Monsters: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of the World's Worst Murderers.  Chicago, IL: Contemporary Books, 1993.

Interviews with New Orleans resident and historian, Kalila Smith.

Jeffers, H. Paul.  With an Axe.  New York: Pinnacle, 2000.

Lane, Brian and Wilfred Gregg. The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers.  New York: Berkley, 1995.

Newton, Michael. The Encyclopedia of Serial Killers.  New York: Checkmark Books, 2000.

Saxon, Lyle, Edward Dreyer and Robert Tallant.  Gumbo Ya Ya: A Collection of Louisiana Folk Tales.  Boston, MA: Houghton-Mifflin, 1945.

Shields, Alan.  "The Axeman of New Orleans," an article sent to Kalila Smith with no identifying publication information.

Smith, Julie.  The Axeman's Jazz.  New York: Ivy Books, 1991.  (A novel about a reincarnation of the Axeman.)

Smith, Kalila (Katherine).  Journey into Darkness: Ghosts and Vampires of New Orleans.  De Simonin Publications, 1998.

Tallant, Robert.  Ready to Hang: Seven Famous New Orleans Murders, New York: Harper, 1952.

Tallant, Robert.  Murder in New Orleans: Seven Famous Trials.  New York: Harper, 1952.

Newspaper articles from the New Orleans archives from 1918-1919.

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