num_pages: 207
description: This work aims to get behind the myths and present the real Bluebeard, Gilles de Rais, one of the most enduring baddies of history. His infamy lives on, the precursor of our own time's serial killers and a founding father of the cult of the child-snatching bogeyman.
language: English
title: The Real Bluebeard
titlecomplete: The Real Bluebeard
genres: Horror, Biography, Medieval, True Crime, France, History, Crime, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 80
publisher: Dorset Press