The Atlas Vampire of Stockholm

On the morning of May 4th, 1932, the caretaker of an apartment building

in Stockholm’s Atlas district unlocked the door to a room that had been silent too long.

Inside, the air was heavy, stale, and tinged with something metallic.

On the bed lay Lilly Lindeström, thirty-two years old, a woman who lived

quietly on the margins of the city, surviving through sex work in a time when poverty had

few mercies. She was found face down, battered by repeated blows to the skull.

But what unsettled police and press alike was not only the brutality of her death—it was

what had been taken from her. Her body had been drained of blood. Beside her lay a