HAROLD SCHECHTER

La storia reale del piu efferato serial killer degli Stati Uniti, Ed Gein, il cui orrore ha scosso il paese negli anni Cinquanta influenzandone limmaginario e ispirando personaggi come il Norman Bates di Psycho, il Faccia di Cuoio di Non aprite quella porta e il Buffalo Bill de Il silenzio degli innocenti. Un contadino mite e apparentemente innocuo proveniente da un piccolo centro del Wisconsin si rivelera essere piu mostruosamente squilibrato di ogni sua controparte cinematografica. Uno dei piu grandi autori americani di true crime, Harold Schechter, e il creatore di The Goon Eric Powell cinque volte vincitore dellEisner Award realizzano una graphic novel, frutto di meticolose ricerche, che ci portera in un paesino nel cuore dellAmerica rurale i cui abitanti non sospettavano che un mostro si aggirasse fra di loro. Perche la verita non ha bisogno di abbellimenti per tingersi di orrore.

The Serial Killer FilesHarold Schechter THE DEFINITIVE DOSSIER ON HISTORYS MOST HEINOUS! Hollywoods make-believe maniacs like Jason, Freddy, and Hannibal Lecter cant 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 across civilization throughout the ages. Now, from the much-acclaimed author of Deviant, Deranged, and Depraved, comes the ultimate resource on the serial killer phenomenon. Rigorously researched and packed with the most terrifying, up-to-date information, this innovative and highly compelling compendium covers every aspect of multiple murderersfrom psychology to cinema, fetishism to fan clubs, trophies to trading cards. Discover: WHO THEY ARE: Those featured include Ed Gein, the homicidal mamas boy who inspired fictions most famous Psycho, Norman Bates; Angelo Buono and Kenneth Bianchi, sex-crazed killer cousins better known as the Hillside Stranglers; and the Beanes, a fifteenth-century cave-dwelling clan with an insatiable appetite for human flesh HOW THEY KILL: They shoot, stab, and strangle. Butcher, bludgeon, and burn. Drown, dismember, and devour . . . and other methods of massacre too many and monstrous to mention here. WHY THEY DO IT: For pleasure and for profit. For celebrity and for companionship. For the devil and for dinner. For the thrill of it, for the hell of it, and because such men are monsters, who live . . . beyond the frontiers ofmadness. PLUS: in-depth case studies, classic killers nicknames, definitions of every kind of deviance and derangement, and much, much more. For more than one hundred profiles of lethal loners and killer couples, Bluebeards and black widows, cannibals and copycats this is an indispensable, spine-tingling, eye-popping investigation into the dark hearts and mad minds of that twisted breed of human whose crimes are the most frightening . . . and fascinating.

Uno de los grandes en el campo de la literatura sobre crímenes reales, Harold Schechter, se une al ganador de cinco premios Eisner, Eric Powell, para traerte la historia de Ed Gein, uno de los asesinos mas trastornados de la historia estadounidense y que inspiro peliculas como Psicosis, La matanza de Texas y El silencio de los corderos.