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Author:Harold Schechter
Bestial: The Savage Trail of a True American Monster
FROM SOCIAL OUTCAST TO NECROPHILE AND MURDERER -- HIS APPALLING CRIMES STUNNED AN ERA. San Francisco, the 1920s. In an age when nightmares were relegated to the fiction of Edgar Allan Poe and distant tales of the Whitechapel murders, a real-life monster terrorized America....- $23.99
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Butcher's Work: True Crime Tales of American Murder and Madness
A Civil War veteran who perpetrated one of the most ghastly mass slaughters in the annals of U.S. crime. A nineteenth-century female serial killer whose victims included three husbands and six of her own children. A Gilded Age "Bluebeard" who did away with as...- $17.50
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Depraved: The Definitive True Story of H.H. Holmes, Whose Grotesque Crimes Shattered Turn-Of-The-Century Chicago
The heinous bloodlust of Dr. H.H. Holmes is notorious -- but only Harold Schechter's Depraved tells the complete story of the killer whose evil acts of torture and murder flourished within miles of the Chicago World's Fair. "Destined to be a true crime classic"...- $27.95
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Deranged
From Simon & Schuster and Harold Schechter comes Deranged, the shocking true story of America's most fiendish killer. Schechter brings his expertise to the shocking true story of a murderer in the early 20th century. Deranged reveals the true story behind the life and...- $16.99
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Deviant
The truth behind the twisted crimes that inspired the films Psycho, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, and The Silence of the Lambs... From "America's principal chronicler of its greatest psychopathic killers" (The Boston Book Review) comes the definitive account of Ed Gein, a mild-mannered...- $17.99
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Dr. Werthless: The Man Who Studied Murder (and Nearly Killed the Comics Industry)
From the creative team behind the award-winning "Did You Hear What Eddie Gein Done?" comes an examination of one of the most polarizing figures in pop culture, Dr. Fredric Wertham. Reviled by comic book fans as a witch-hunting zealot who stirred up a panic...- $29.99
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Fatal
The shocking story of one of the most notorious female serial killers in American history from "an author who shows real mastery of the true crime genre" (NPR). In 1891, Jane Toppan, a proper New England matron, embarked on a profession as a private...- $22.95
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Fiend: The Shocking True Story of Americas Youngest Serial Killer
The unputdownable true crime story about a killer who preyed on children but was not much older than his victims. When fourteen-year-old Jesse Pomeroy was arrested in 1874, Boston's nightmarish reign of terror came to an end. Called the "Boston Boy Fiend," he was...- $18.99
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Hell's Princess: The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men
"A deeply researched and morbidly fascinating chronicle of one of America's most notorious female killers." --The New York Times Book ReviewAn Amazon Charts bestseller.In the pantheon of serial killers, Belle Gunness stands alone. She was the rarest of female psychopaths, a woman who engaged...- $14.95
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Killer Verse: Poems of Murder and Mayhem
Killer Verse: Poems of Murder and Mayhem is a spine-tingling collection of terrifically creepy poems about the deadly art of murder. The villains and victims who populate these pages range from Cain and Abel and Bluebeard and his wives to Lizzie Borden, Jack the...- $18.00
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Man-Eater: The Life and Legend of an American Cannibal
In the winter of 1873, a small band of prospectors lost their way in the frozen wilderness of the Colorado Rockies. Months later, when the snow finally melted, only one of them emerged. His name was Alfred G. Packer, though he would soon become...- $14.95
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Maniac: The Bath School Disaster and the Birth of the Modern Mass Killer
Harold Schechter, Amazon Charts bestselling author of Hell's Princess, unearths a nearly forgotten true crime of obsession and revenge, and one of the first--and worst--mass murders in American history.In 1927, while the majority of the township of Bath, Michigan, was celebrating a new primary...- $24.95
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Maniac: The Bath School Disaster and the Birth of the Modern Mass Killer
Harold Schechter, Amazon Charts bestselling author of Hell's Princess, unearths a nearly forgotten true crime of obsession and revenge, and one of the first--and worst--mass murders in American history.In 1927, while the majority of the township of Bath, Michigan, was celebrating a new primary...- $14.95
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Murderabilia: A History of Crime in 100 Objects
From veteran true crime master Harold Schechter comes a unique look into the history of crime told through the dark objects left behind. The false teeth of a female serial killer from 1908, the cut-and-paste confession of the Black Dahlia killer, the newly cracked...- $30.00
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Nevermore
Historical fact and startling literary invention converge in this stunning novel by "America's principal chronicler of its greatest psychopathic killers" (The Boston Book Review). Praised by Caleb Carr for his "brilliantly detailed and above all riveting" true-crime writing, Harold Schechter brings his expertise to...- $20.99
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Author:Harold Schechter
Outcry
A professor of American literature and culture, renowned for his true-crime writing, Harold Schechter's Outcry discovers that a killer's instincts never die. When reporter Paul Novak investigates a series of brutal murders, he didn't plan to pry into the legend of Ed Gein, the...- $26.95
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Psycho USA: Famous American Killers You Never Heard of
AMERICA'S MOST COLD-BLOODED In the horrifying annals of American crime, the infamous names of brutal killers such as Bundy, Dahmer, Gacy, and Berkowitz are writ large in the imaginations of a public both horrified and hypnotized by their monstrous, murderous acts. But for every...- $23.00
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Ripped from the Headlines!: The Shocking True Stories Behind the Movies' Most Memorable Crimes
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 necktie murders in Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy; Chicago's Jazz Age crime of passion; the fatal hookup in Looking for Mr. Goodbar; the...- $24.95
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Ripped from the Headlines!: The Shocking True Stories Behind the Movies' Most Memorable Crimes
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 necktie murders in Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy; Chicago's Jazz Age crime of passion; the fatal hookup in Looking for Mr. Goodbar; the...- $14.95
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Ripped from the Headlines!: The Shocking True Stories Behind the Movies' Most Memorable Crimes
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 necktie murders in Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy; Chicago's Jazz Age crime of passion; the fatal hookup in Looking for Mr. Goodbar; the...- $34.99
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The A to Z Encyclopedia of Serial Killers
Bestselling true-crime writer Harold Schechter, a leading authority on serial killers, and coauthor David Everitt offer a guided tour through the bizarre and blood-chilling world of serial murder. Through hundreds of detailed entries that span the entire spectrum -- the shocking crimes, the infamous...- $17.99
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The Devil's Gentleman: Privilege, Poison, and the Trial That Ushered in the Twentieth Century
From renowned true-crime historian Harold Schechter comes the riveting exploration of a notorious New York City murder in the 1890s, the fascinating forensic science of an earlier time, and the grisly court case that became a tabloid spectacle. The wayward son of a revered...- $21.00
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The Serial Killer Files: The Who, What, Where, How, and Why of the World's Most Terrifying Murderers
THE DEFINITIVE DOSSIER ON HISTORY'S MOST HEINOUS Hollywood's make-believe maniacs like Jason, Freddy, and Hannibal Lecter can't hold a candle to real life monsters like John Wayne Gacy, Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, and scores of others who have terrorized, tortured, and terminated their way...- $23.00
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The Whole Death Catalog: A Lively Guide to the Bitter End
In the tradition of Mary Roach's bestselling Stiff and Jessica Mitford's classic expos The American Way of Death comes this meticulously researched, refreshingly irreverent, and lavishly illustrated look at death from acclaimed author Harold Schechter. With his trademark fearlessness and bracing sense of humor,...- $20.00
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