What are such but killers? the soldier is literally an assassin who is allowed to use all weapons against a given population when convenient. the butcher is a man who kills animals to sell their entrails to feed the population, and the woodcutter, kills trees to either become fuel for heating, or simply to be raw materials. not even the most sadistic serial killer known can be as grim as the population's ignorance of this data. so...... why read horror books while in front of a fireplace? you are already living a horror movie, where you are the monster.