The Whole Death Catalog by Harold Schechter

This is his story-recounted in fascinating and chilling detail by Harold Schechter, one of the most acclaimed true-crime storytellers of our time. Driven to commit gruesome and bizarre acts beyond all imagining, Ed Gein remains one of the most deranged minds in the annals of American homicide. After her death and a failed attempt to dig up his mother's body from the local cemetery, Gein turned to other grave robberies and, ultimately, multiple murders. The man behind the massacre was a slight, unassuming Midwesterner with a strange smile-and even stranger attachment to his domineering mother. The place was an ordinary farmhouse in America's heartland, filled with extraordinary evidence of unthinkable depravity. From 'America's principal chronicler of its greatest psychopathic killers' ( The Boston Book Review) comes the definitive account of Ed Gein, a mild-mannered Wisconsin farmhand who stunned an unsuspecting nation-and redefined the meaning of the word 'psycho.' The year was 1957. Harold Schechter 5.0 1 Rating 12.99 12. Now in its first trade paperback edition, 'Deviant' details how killer Ed Gein turned a small Wisconsin farmhouse into a retreat of ghoulishness and blood.īook Synopsis The truth behind the twisted crimes that inspired the films Psycho, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, and The Silence of the Lambs. About the Book The grisly true story that inspired Hitchcock's classic film 'Psycho'. by Harold Schechter ( 917 ) £0.99 £8.99 Bestselling true-crime master Harold Schechter explores the real-life headline-making psychos, serial murderers, thrill-hungry couples, and lady-killers who inspired a century of classic films. The Whole Death Catalog by Harold Schechter, 2009, Random House Publishing Group edition, eBook in English.