Little wonder, then, that it’s the premise for survival horror The Devil in Me, the latest installment of Supermassive Games‘ thrilling horror anthology, The Dark Pictures. Again, it’s not clear how much of it was real – much of Holmes’ story seems to have been speculation at best, and fabrication at worst – but it sure makes for one hell of a tale. Have you come across him before? Widely touted (incorrectly, I think, but let’s go with it) as America’s first serial killer, HH Holmes was a fraudster, philanderer, and murderer who lives on in infamy by way of his deliciously devilish “Murder Castle”, a funhouse with the same sliding walls and trick mirrors, only they led not to hilarity but to gas chambers and dead ends. No one other than serial killer Henry Howard Holmes.
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