Anthology of the Killer foregrounds history as horror, “[a]ll those squashed peasant revolts, interminable centuries of torture, beheadings,” a parade of murderers more extreme and gratuitous than the slasher villains who hound BB. As in the Concerned Citizen’s ramblings, Gillmurphy repeatedly likens history to oceans, rivers, or waves of blood, the drink for the drinky-bird Killer.

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