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Deviant: The Shocking True Story of Ed Gein, the Original Psycho
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 364.15230977556
EAN: 9780671025465
ISBN: 0671025465
Label: Pocket
Manufacturer: Pocket
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 256
Publication Date: October 01, 1998
Publisher: Pocket
Studio: Pocket
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Editorial 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 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).
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Excellent!
Excellent for fans of true crime novels. Very strange facts about killer, Eddie Gein. Couldn't put it down!
Rating:  - Good book....
Good book if you looking for information on Ed Gein. Some very good picture included in book. Lots of inside information about the ghoul of Wisconsin. Some information in book is widely known, but there's lots of information that is generally new from most news reports on Gein. Really helps you to understand (somewhat) the makings of a killer.
Rating: - PsychoKiller Quest que cest?
Quest que cest,yes, just what is it about those psychokillers past,present and future that holds our attention.Words are used to define their acts such as ghoulish,fiendish,psychotic necrophilic deviants etc, but why do they do it and just what is the root cause of their extreme antisocial behaviors.How can one live with these episodic,violent bloodbaths and continue to function as if all was right with the world.Deviant is an excellent start on your quest for comprehension.It chronicles the life ... Read More
Rating: - Short and to the point
Ed Gein was just CRAZY INSANE!!!!! The author did a good job in trying to figure out what in the WORLD could have compelled someone to such insanity. Good read
Rating: - Couldn't put it down!
This was a great book! I was completely obsessed with reading it. I finished it in two days. The prose wasn't terribly difficult. This book really went into the facts of the case in an interesting way. You end up feeling a little sorry for Ed Gein, but still never wanting to have been around him in any way. I recommend this book for anyone who loves true crime stories or like to read about psychopaths.
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