Cannibal clans may have been written about with more panache, specifically by Jack Ketchum who has made the woods of Maine even scarier with several books and films. This wasn't even the only case, there's also Christie Cleek, but Sawney is definitely the most famous/infamous one.

Nasty tale, isn't it? Possibly actually happened, possibly a legend, possibly antiScottish propaganda by the Brits. Don't blame them, this was before television. Alternatively.a sociopathic misfit took his teenage lover of similar inclinations to a remote location where they proceeded to enthusiastically reproduce and engage in murder, cannibalism, incest and other family pastimes.

And yet one man managed to strike out on his own (well, with a wench in tow), live as he wished, hunt as he wished, follow no rules but his rules, create a huge family, never go hungry and accumulate untold wealth and do so for over two decades. Dirty, ignorant and base peasants barely stood a chance. When not off looking for birds in the tropics, he currently divides his time between stone carving and making a living in the stock market. He is an avid birder with over 1,500 species on his world list. Morse has worked as a visual artist, primarily sculpture. He shifted to another medium with the publication of Video Trash and Treasures, a two-volume guide to the obscure and bizarre movies of the 1980s.įor the last 15 years, L. private eye who, according to one reviewer, “makes Dirty Harry look like Mother Teresa” and he was instrumental in arranging the publication of An Old-Fashioned Mystery, the lost masterpiece by the enigmatic and reclusive author, Runa Fairleigh.

The Old Dick won an Edgar from the Mystery Writers of America The Big Enchilada and Sleaze, featuring Sam Hunter, the L. Morse has written four other crime novels. He discovered just what he was looking for in the true story of Sawney Beane and his family, The Flesh Eaters, the 15th century cannibal clan who ate their way through a good part of Scotland. Upon returning from extended travels through Southeast Asia, he decided to try and write a novel – something delicate and sensitive and artistic. He moved to Toronto in the late ‘60s, and has had the usual variety of jobs, including a brief stint in educational television and five years as an administrator at the University of Toronto. He attended the University of California at Berkeley and San Francisco State College, and somehow managed to get two degrees in English Lit.

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