Schechter - " Deviant: True Story Of Ed Gein The Original Psycho " - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: From the author of top - drawer true crime (Booklist) books comes the definitive account of Ed Gein the man whose shocking crimes inspired Psycho The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and The Silence of the Lambs. The year was 1957. To his Wisconsin neighbors Ed Gein was a slight Midwestern farmhand with a twisted little smile. To an unsuspecting nation he would become one of the most notorious crime figures in history having lived for ten years in his own secret world of brutal murder and unthinkable depravity. Here is the grisly true story of the Butcher of Plainfield a deranged killer whose fiendish fantasies inspired such works as Psycho The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and The Silence of the Lambs. More horrifying than any movie or novel however Deviant dares to explore in chilling detail the life and times of one of the most twisted madmen in the annals of true crime one who still haunts us to this day and how he transformed his small nondescript farmhouse in the American heartland into his own private and inescapable domain of ghoulishness and blood.
Title: " Deviant: True Story Of Ed Gein The Original Psycho "
Author(s): Schechter
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Barcode: 9780671025465
Pages: 256 Pages, Illustrations
Publication Date: 10/1/1998
Category: True Crime