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America may have had its fill of psychos for the last forty years, but none of them has inspired so many books and films (Pyscho, The Silence of the Lambs, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre) as Wisconsin's cannibalistic handyman, Ed Gein. None of them has been used as the ultimate ogre in countless... read more

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If anything ever portended grimly for the future of Goerge Gein and his family, it was his own sad beginning.

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This is book 16 of 53 in True Crime: Totally Messed Up. (community list)

Preceded by Cannibal, and followed by Edward Gein: America's Most Bizarre Murderer.

This book is in True Crime: Serial Murder. (community list)

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  1. Paul Anthony Woods (Author)

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  1. Lux Interior (Contributor) - Ed's Epitaph

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Original Language: English
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
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Publication Date: 1995
ISBN: 0312130570
Page Count: 165

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  3. true crime 

More Books Like This edit see section history

   
  • Deviant
  • Edward Gein: America's Most Bizarre Murderer
  • Inside Edward Gein and Others: A Psychological Analysis of Sexually Motivated Serial Homicide

Books Cited by This Book edit see section history

   
  • Deviant
  • Edward Gein: America's Most Bizarre Murderer
  • Psychopathia Sexualis: With Especial Reference to the Antipathic Sexual Instinct
  • Gray's Anatomy
  • Psycho
  • Murder Plus
  • Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho
  • Child of God
  • The Silence of the Lambs
  • American Psycho

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