Harold Schechter
Author
Publisher
Little A
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
In this collection of essays, true-crime historian Schechter reveals the real-life stories behind classic movies.
Chicago's Jazz Age crime of passion; the fatal hookup in Looking for Mr. Goodbar; the high school horrors committed by the costumed slasher in Scream. These and other cinematic crimes have become part of pop-culture history-- but found inspiration in true events. Schechter explores the real-life headline-making psychos, serial murderers,...
Author
Publisher
New Harvest, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Beekman Place, one of the most exclusive addresses in Manhattan, hasn't always been home to the rich. In the 1930s, when bluebloods like the Vanderbilts and Rockefellers began to build luxury towers, poor European immigrants lived in filthy slums among the riverside factories and abbatoirs. It was in this setting that a young man committed a grisly triple-murder on Easter Sunday, 1937. The details of the case were so sensational that one might think...
Author
Publisher
Little A
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Relates how respected local farmer and school board treasurer Andrew P. Kehoe blew up the new primary school in Bath, Michigan in 1927, an act of vengeance that killed thirty-eight children and six adults in one of the first and worst mass murders in American history.
Author
Publisher
Workman Publishing, Co., Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"From veteran true crime master Harold Schechter comes Murderabilia, a 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 cipher of the Zodiac killer, the shotgun used in the Clutter family murders, which were made famous by Truman Capote's true crime classic In Cold Blood--these are more than simple artifacts that...
Author
Publisher
Albatross Funnybooks
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Description
One of the greats in the field of true-crime literature, Harold Schechter (Deviant, The Serial Killer Files, Hell's Princess), teams with five-time Eisner Award-winning graphic novelist Eric Powell (The Goon, Big Man Plans, Hillbilly) to bring you the tale of one of the most notoriously deranged murderers in American history, Ed Gein. A Little Mad Sometimes is an in-depth exploration of the Gein family and what led to the creation of the necrophile...
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
A unique anthology of poems from around the world and through the ages that celebrate magic and magicians. No matter how modern or scientifically advanced our societies become, human beings remain perpetually enthralled by the idea of magic, from our daily superstitions to our choices of entertainment. Magic has long been a central subject of poetry, and the poems in this collection are evocative evidence that the poet's art depends on a form of wizardry--the...
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