books by Harold Schechter

books by Harold Schechter

books:

Harold Schechter

Amok Books, 2002

Well written account of a true monster.
I've always wondered what made people like this do such awful and disgusting things as described in this book. I now have a better understanding after reading it. Not all criminals are made by bad parenting skills and savage prison systems, but in this case it can't be ...

Bestial: The Savage Trail of a True American Monster

Harold Schechter

Pocket Star, 2004

One of true crime's best
This is one of Schechter's best, and IMHO, one of the best true crime novels I have read. It is about a murderer/rapist nicknamed the Gorilla Man, who seemed to be "cursed" from birth. He was abnormal from the beginning and lived a bizarre lifestyle his whole life. ...

The Devil's Gentleman: Privilege, Poison, and the Trial That Ushered in the Twentieth Century

Harold Schechter

Ballantine Books, 2008

A True Crime Master's Masterpiece
Over the past two decades, Harold Schechter has resurrected the stories of many prominent moral monsters from America's past, corrected the numerous myths that have grown up around them, replaced those myths with more fascinating facts, and then related them in ...

Fiend: The Shocking True Story Of Americas Youngest Serial Killer

Harold Schechter

Pocket, 2000

Easy Terrifying Read
Definitely a must have for fans of the writer and his works. This is an easy to pick up, easily read book that features one of the most shocking stories involving children that I have ever read. This book is a good one, and it truly is what it says, a shocking true ...

Deranged: The Shocking True Story of America's Most Fiendish Killer

Harold Schechter

Pocket, 1990

Could it be?
This book kept me at the edge of my seat... or pillow, depending on what time of day I was reading. It was an easy read, but yet gripping and almost to much to believe. I must know, is this truly fact, or fiction? If you look at page 3, you see a note that reads ...

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

Harold Schechter

Pocket, 1998

Excellent!
Excellent for fans of true crime novels. Very strange facts about killer, Eddie Gein. Couldn't put it down!

The Serial Killer Files: The Who, What, Where, How, and Why of the World's Most Terrifying Murderers

Harold Schechter

Ballantine Books, 2003

A Must for Your Personal Library
Whether used as a reference work to look up specific serial killers or types of serial killer, this book holds its own very, very well. It is a must for any personal library, and not only for those with somewhat morbid interests: this book hold interesting information ...

The A to Z Encyclopedia of Serial Killers

Harold Schechter

Pocket, 2006

Best Serial Killer Book
This is a very interesting book about anything you want to know about Serial Killers. Every killer you know is in there along with many you don't. If you are a crime reader or love crime in general you will love it.

True Crime: An American Anthology

Harold Schechter

Library of America, 2008

This is a winner for fans of true crime
I hate to admit this publicly, but this excellent anthology highlights Americans' (including guilty me) macabre fascination with crime through famous authors who over the years, especially the last few decades, have made this into a powerful genre. The collection ...

Fatal : The Poisonous Life of a Female Serial Killer

Harold Schechter

Pocket Star, 2003

Creepy! Be afraid. Be very afraid!
I'm a psychologist by training. Schechter is the first person I know of to explain a female serial killer's experience during the act of murder. I wanted to gag! Then I spoke to a few female associates, who confirmed what Schechter revealed. OMG! I had no idea women ...

Outcry

Harold Schechter

Pocket, 1997

Good story, fine character development and great pacing
The fifties is nostalgically looked upon as a quiet time of innocence, a calm before the stormy sixties that led to riots and political assassinations. In the last decade, a new breed of violence has surfaced with the rise of sociopaths like Bundy and Dahmler. ...

The Mask of Red Death

Harold Schechter

Ballantine Books, 2004

Series Maintains High Style and Adventure
Harold Schechter's Edgar Allen Poe mystery series is one of my favorites, and I was pleased to find the third one just as engrossing as its predecessors. The books, written in the first person, freely adopt Poe's literary style--sometimes to comedic effect. Schechter ...

The Hum Bug

Harold Schechter

Pocket, 2002

Fascinating
Edgar Allan Poe is unable to feed his family on the wages he makes as a journalist/editor in Philadelphia. He relocates, with his family, to New York City where writing opportunities are much better. When he sees a handbill for the P.T. Barnum's American Circus, Edgar ...

The Mask of Red Death: An Edgar Allan Poe Mystery
Harold Schechter

Ballantine Books, 2005

Suspense, intrigue, atmosphere, and vivid historical detail combine into a thrilling ride through nineteenth-century New York City in The Mask of Red Death . Harold Schechter delivers both a wonderfully accurate portrait of a city in turmoil and an irresistibly appealing depiction of his amateur sleuth Edgar Allan Poe, mirroring the master?s ...

Savage Pastimes: A Cultural History of Violent Entertainment

Harold Schechter

St. Martin's Press, 2005

Savage Pastimes
Shocking. Should be followed by: "Demonic Males---Apes and the Origins of Human Violence" by Wrangham and Peterson; "The Murderer Next Door---Why We Kill" by David Buss; "Heroes, Rogues, and Lovers" by Dabbs and "The Lucifer Principle" by Howard Bloom. Anyone reading ...