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Deviant: The Shocking True Story of Ed Gein, the Original Psycho

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Description: Amazon.com Review 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 ... (more)
Manufacturer: Gallery Books
Release date: 1 October 1998
ISBN-10 : 0671025465 | ISBN-13: 8601300364476
Tags: Nonfiction (1), True Crime (1)
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