The Bat by Avery Hopwood and Mary Roberts Rinehart; Stephen Vincent Benet (1926)

Source.
c/f The Circular Staircase by Mary Roberts Rinehart

Some context.

From the Broadway production.

First film adaption.

(The 1930 sound film remake of this same film "The Bat Whispers" Bob Kane identified as partially inspiring Batman).

Penny Dreadfuls: Proto Scandal Sheet Rag and True (-ish) Crime Dreadfuls

Black Bess (1866)
Black Bess; or, the knight of the road : a tale of the good old times by Viles, Edward

A Book of Remarkable Criminals

A Book of Remarkable Criminals by H Irving

A Book of Scoundrels

A Book of Scoundrels, by Charles Whibley


The Newgate Calendar 1700-1800

A chronological list of all entries in the Newgate Calendar from 1700 to 1800 A.D. Source.

Some examples.

John Larkin

Who committed so many Forgeries and Cheats that he had not Time to confess them all before he died, on
19th of April, 1700

Michael Van Berghen, Catherine Van Berghen And Dromelius, Their Servant, Publicans

Executed 10th of July, 1700, for the Murder of their Guest, Mr Oliver Norris

George Caddell

Executed for the Cruel Murder of Miss Price, Whom he had Seduced and Promised Marriage

John Holliday or Simpson

Housebreaker and Highwayman, who robbed a King at Hertford, and a Church, and was hanged at Tyburn in 1700

George Griffiths 

Who courted his Master's Daughter and then robbed him. Hanged at Tyburn on 1st of August, 1700 .

John Stanley

An Insolent Puppy who presumed on his Swordsmanship. Executed at Tyburn, 23rd of December, 1723, for murdering his Mistress

Stephen Gardener 

Executed at Tyburn, 3rd of February, 1724, for House-breaking, after being warned that the Bellman would say his Verses over him

Joseph Blake Alias Blueskin 

Made an Unsuccessful Attempt to kill Jonathan Wild by cutting his Throat. Executed in November, 1724, at Newgate

The Terrific Register

The Terrific Register (1825)

The Whitechapel Murders or the mysteries of the East End
The Whitechapel Murders or the mysteries of the East End (1888)

Jack the ripper penny dreadful.


The Wild Boys of London, or Children of the Night

Illustrations from The Wild Boys of London

A Selection of Stories

The Body-Snatchers

Dreadful Account of Cannibalism

Extraordinary Female Duel

Horrid Parricide

The Life of Dick Turpin

Providential Escape

Penny Dreadfuls: Proto-Hardboiled, Detective, Adventure and Thriller Dreadfuls

Adventure Dreadfuls

• Adventures of Buffalo Bill from Boyhood to Manhood, by Colonel Prentiss Ingraham
• California Joe, the Mysterious Plainsman, by Colonel Prentiss Ingraham
• Jesse James, the Outlaw, by W. B. Lawson
• Deadwood Dick's Doom; or, Calamity Jane's Last Adventure

Crime and Detective Dreadfuls
The Mysteries of London

• The Mysteries of London - George William MacArthur Reynolds

The Mysteries of Paris

• The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 1 of 6 - Sue, Eugène, 1804-1857
• The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 2 of 6 - Sue, Eugène, 1804-1857
• The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 3 of 6 - Sue, Eugène, 1804-1857
• The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 4 of 6 - Sue, Eugène, 1804-1857
• The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 5 of 6 - Sue, Eugène, 1804-1857
• The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 6 of 6 - Sue, Eugène, 1804-1857

Old Sleuth

• Old Sleuth,  Cad Metti, the Female Detective Strategist: or, Dudie Dunne Again in the Field 
• Old Sleuth, A Desperate Chance: or, The Wizard Tramp's Revelation (1897) 
• Old Sleuth, The "Dock Rats" of New York: or, The Smuggler Band's Last Stand
• Old Sleuth, Oscar the Detective: or, Dudie Dunne, the Exquisite Detective
• Old Sleuth, A Successful Shadow: or, A Detective's Successful Quest (1897)
• Old Sleuth, Two Wonderful Detectives: or, Jack and Gil's Marvelous Skill (c1898) 
• Old Sleuth, Wonder Jack, the Detective: or, The Witch of Manhattan (New York: J. S. Ogilvie Pub. Co., c1894) 

Thriller Dreadfuls

• Fred Fearnot's Revenge, or Defeating a Congressman, by Hal Standish
• Fred Fearnot's Day, or The Great Reunion at Avon, by Hal Standish
• Nick Carter, Detective: The Solution of a Remarkable Case, by a celebrated author
• The Great Spy System, or, Nick Carter's Promise to the President, by a celebrated author

Penny Dreadfuls: Occult and Spooky Dreadfuls

• Varney the Vampire; Or, the Feast of Blood by Thomas Preskett Prest N
• Spring Heeled Jack by Anonymous N
• The String of Pearls - The Original Penny Dreadful Featuring Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street N

The Mask (1961)

The Pre-Tabloid Art of 19th-Century Crime

Source.

Thanks Allison Meier via Hyperallergic

"Hypnotism as a Defence; The Singular Murder Case Just Concluded in Kansas. DECISION OF THE SUPREME COURT Story of the Case in Which the Actual Murderer Was Acquitted and the Hypnotizer Convicted" (1895)

View New Yorker article.

"TOPEKA, Kan., April 7. -- The decision rendered by the Supreme Court yesterday, sustaining the ruling of the Cowley County District Court, which convicted Anderson Gray of the murder of Thomas Patton, although Thomas McDonald acknowledged to having committed the deed, closes one of the most extraordinary cases ever brought before a court of justice, and for the first time admits that hypnotism is a defense for murder."

Cure - Kiyoshi Kurosawa (1997)

Article on Cure on strictly film school
An Interview with Kiyoshi Kurosawa (2003)
Cure: Confusion and Sophistication

Midway and Carnival Stories

Araby by James Joyce.

Spurs by Tod Robbins (inspiration for Todd Browning's "Freaks").

Source.

You'll Never Know, Dear, How Much I Love You by John Updike.

Scripts from Carnivale
Carnivàle: After the Ball is Over
Carnivàle: Black Blizzard
Carnivàle: Milfay
Carnivàle: Tipton

Pulps
Circus Fists by Robert E Howard
A Half Interest in Hell by Emile Tempperman
A Fray Down South in Dixie by Thomas Thursday
It's Great to Be Great! by Thomas Thursday
That Terrible Wrestler by Thomas Thursday
The Big-Time Heart by W. Wonderly

Niagara Falls (1953)

Warning Shadows - Schatten (1923)

The Night of the Hunter (1955)

Film.
Script.

Henry IV - A Tragedy in Three Acts (1922) - By Luigi Pirandello (English translation)

In full

Freaks (1932) - Tod Browning

Script.
Film.
Spurs by Tod Robbins (inspiration for film).

Killer Delinquents

Sources and General Interest Links

Tru TV - Notorious Young Killers

Kids Who Kill, Part one
Kids Who Kill, Part two

Teen Violence Timeline (Canada) (2006)

2012
June
Canada News: Travis Baumgartner: Armoured car guard makes Edmonton court appearance

2011
May
Boy accused of killing his neo-Nazi father may use insanity defense
Denair teen accused of killing dad pleads not guilty

November
Teenage girl, 14, questioned on suspicion of murdering her mother | Mail Online

2010

Source: Darwination Scans.

January

The Bizarre Case of Duane Hurley and Daniel Kovarbasich

June

Forbidden Love: Steven Colver and Tylar Witt

March
Teens Indicted After Allegedly Taunting Girl Who Hanged Herself

2009
June
B.C. teen accused of killing banned from social networking
Alyssa Bustamante and the Murder of Elizabeth Olten

September

Annie Le: A Yale lab Murder

November
Bully, 13, who chased girl to death
Police: Girl, 15, dug grave anticipating killing
Teenager guilty of pensioner's 'vampire ritual' killing

2007
Amanda Knox and the Murder of Meredith Kercher

2003
Teen Killer Couples

2001

The Dartmouth Murders

The Bizarre Murder of Robert Schwartz 

Clara Schwartz

2000

The Gallaudet Murders

1995

Jeffrey Howorth
Bryan and David Freeman 

Diane Zamora & David Graham

1993
The West Memphis 3

James Bulger

1991

The Murder of Laurie Show

1992
Amy Fisher 

Shanda Sharer 

1989

The Menendez Brothers

1986

The Murder of Anita Cobby

1984

Joe Hunt 

1979

Bruce George Peter Lee

1978
Willie Bosket

1968

Mary Bell

1965

Sylvia Likens

1944

Child Killing

1924

Leopold and Loeb

Christmas Murder!

Victorian Gallows Ballads

Source.

Mary Arnold, The Female Monster
Former prostitute uses carnivorous beetles to blind her own infant child. Hopes to increase its value as a tool for begging, but wins only prison and transportation.

The Execution of Nathaniel Mobbs
Drunken bully cuts his wife's throat in a fit of jealous rage. Bungles his own suicide attempt, and lives long enough to be hanged at Newgate.

Mrs Dyer, The Old Baby-Farmer
Reading woman takes in illegitimate babies for cash. Strangles 40 or more, then dumps their bodies in the Thames.

The Gallows Child
Nine-year old boy is condemned to death for stealing six handkerchiefs from an Oxford Street shop. Shopkeeper had paid five shillings each for them.

The Life and Trial of Palmer
Boozy, gambling doctor poisons family and friends to clear his debts. Hanged at Stafford Gaol, but survives as footnote in the Sherlock Holmes stories.

The Silent Grove
Young man gets his girlfriend pregnant, then kills both her and the baby to avoid responsibility. One of many Bloody Miller/ Berkshire Tragedy variants - a combination of which eventually became Knoxville Girl.

The Liverpool Lodger
Evil lodger slaughters family and robs them. Victims include pregnant mother and two very young boys.

The Unnatural Murder
Disguised sailor returns home to his parents, hoping to surprise them with his new-found wealth. They mistake him for a stranger, kill him, and steal his gold.

Murder at Westmill
Nine-year-old boy brutally murders his infant sister. Mother driven mad by the crime.

Streams of Crimson Blood
Burglar breaks into rich old couple's house and kills them both.

The Murdered Maid
Poverty-stricken yokels kill lodger for her savings. But it's really their own daughter.

Cruel Lizzie Vickers
Housekeeper bullies her way into elderly employer's will then beats him to death for the £1,000 involved. That's the ballad's version, but the Old Bailey jury found her not guilty.

Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville), 1881-1975

The Adventures of Sally (English) (as Author)
The Clicking of Cuthbert (English) (as Author)
The Coming of Bill (English) (as Author)
A Damsel in Distress (English) (as Author)
Death at the Excelsior and Other Stories (English) (as Author)
The Gem Collector (English) (as Author)
The Girl on the Boat (English) (as Author)
The Gold Bat (English) (as Author)
The Head of Kay's (English) (as Author)
Indiscretions of Archie (English) (as Author)
The Intrusion of Jimmy (English) (as Author)
Jill the Reckless (English) (as Author)
The Little Nugget (English) (as Author)
The Little Warrior (English) (as Author)
Love Among the Chickens (English) (as Author) (Audio)
Love Among the Chickens (English) (as Author)
Love Among the Chickens
A Story of the Haps and Mishaps on an English Chicken Farm (English) (as Author)
A Man of Means (English) (as Author)
The Man Upstairs and Other Stories (English) (as Author)
The Man with Two Left Feet and Other Stories (English) (as Author)
Mike (English) (as Author)
Mike and Psmith (English) (as Author)
My Man Jeeves (English) (as Author)
Not George Washington — an Autobiographical Novel (English) (as Author)
Piccadilly Jim (English) (as Author)
The Politeness of Princes and Other School Stories (English) (as Author)
The Pothunters (English) (as Author)
A Prefect's Uncle (English) (as Author)
The Prince and Betty (English) (as Author)
Psmith in the City (English) (as Author)
Psmith in the City (English) (as Author)
Psmith, Journalist (English) (as Author)
Right Ho, Jeeves (English) (as Author)
Right Ho, Jeeves (English) (as Author)
Something New (English) (as Author)
The Swoop! or How Clarence Saved England A Tale of the Great Invasion (English) (as Author)
Tales of St. Austin's (English) (as Author)
Three Men and a Maid (English) (as Author)
Uneasy Money (English) (as Author)
The White Feather (English) (as Author)
William Tell Told Again (English) (as Author)
A Wodehouse Miscellany Articles & Stories (English) (as Author)

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)

Script.