Alein Kentigerna is one of the darkest voices in contemporary crime literature—and a blood relative of a real-life serial killer. This haunting connection permeates his fiction, which blends obsessive intensity with forensic precision. His debut novel Hallucination captivated more than 100,000 readers and established him on the international stage. Subsequent works such as The Psychopathic Children of God and The Sleep of Snakes confirmed his place as an uncompromising chronicler of the human abyss. Kentigerna began his path in poetry before turning to novels. Today, he is regarded as an author who reshapes the genre with gothic lyricism, psychological depth, and shocking twists. He lives a reclusive life, devoted entirely to writing