Deviant: The Shocking True Story of Ed Gein, the Original Psycho
by Harold Schechter
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Author: Harold SchechterEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1998-10-01
ISBN: 0671025465
Number of pages: 256
Publisher: Pocket
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Book Review: Gruesome but good
Summary: 4 Stars
This book is very easy to read, very well written and does keep one going til the end. It's not too horrible but factual and gory enough to be very interesting. Really morbidly fascinating reading.
Summary of Deviant: The Shocking True Story of Ed Gein, the Original Psycho
The grisly true story that inspired Hitchcock's classic film "Psycho". 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.Harold Schechter is a historian: he takes old files and yellowed newspaper clippings, and brings their stories to life. Deviant is about everyone's favorite ghoul, Ed Gein--whose crimes inspired the writers of Psycho, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and The Silence of the Lambs. Schechter deftly evokes the small-town 1950s Wisconsin setting--not pretty farms and cheese factories, but infertile soil and a bleak, hardscrabble existence. The details of Gein's "death house" are perhaps well known by now, but the murderer's quietly crazy, almost gentle personality comes forth in this book as never before. As Gary Kadet wrote, in The Boston Book Review, "Schechter is a dogged researcher [who backs up] every bizarre detail and curious twist in this and his other books ... More importantly, he nimbly avoids miring his writing and our reading with minutiae or researched overstatement, which means that although he can occasionally be dry, he is never boring."
Also recommended: Schechter's books about Albert Fish (Deranged) and Herman Mudgett a.k.a. Dr. H. H. Holmes (Depraved).
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