CONTENTS
Title Page
Dedication
Quotes
Illustration Credits
Map
Evils Imminent (A Note)
PROLOGUE:
Aboard the Olympic
PART I:
Frozen Music
The Black City
“The Trouble Is Just Begun”
The Necessary Supply
“Becomingness”
“Don’t Be Afraid”
Pilgrimage
A Hotel for the Fair
The Landscape of Regret
Vanishing Point
Alone
PART II:
An Awful Fight
Convocation
Cuckoldry
Vexed
Remains of the Day
A Gauntlet Dropped
The Angel from Dwight
Dedication Day
Prendergast
“I Want You at Once”
Chappell Redux
“The Cold-Blooded Fact”
Acquiring Minnie
Dreadful Things Done by Girls
The Invitation
Final Preparations
PART III:
In the White City
Opening Day
The World’s Fair Hotel
Night Is the Magician
Modus Operandi
One Good Turn
Nannie
Vertigo
Heathen Wanted
At Last
Rising Wave
Independence Day
Worry
Claustrophobia
Storm and Fire
Love
Freaks
Toward Triumph
Departures
Nightfall
PART IV:
Cruelty Revealed
“Property of H. H. Holmes”
Moyamensing Prison
The Tenant
A Lively Corpse
“All the Weary Days”
Malice Aforethought
EPILOGUE:
The Last Crossing
The Fair
Recessional
Holmes
Notes and Sources
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index
About the Author
Also by Erik Larson
Copyright Page
