Harold Schechter is a professor of American literature and culture. Renowned for his true-crime writing, he is the author of the nonfiction books Fatal, Fiend, Bestial, Deviant, Deranged, Depraved, and, with David Everitt, The A to Z Encyclopedia of Serial Killers. He is also the author of Nevermore and The Hum Bug, the acclaimed historical novels featuring Edgar Allan Poe. He lives in New York State.
The Boston Book Review America's foremost pop historian of serial
murder.
The Boston Book Review Yet another essential addition to
Schechter's canon of serial murder history...deserves to be read
and pored over by the hard-crime enthusiast as well as devotees of
social history.
Journal Star (Peoria, IL) [A] deftly written, unflinching
account....A fascinating police procedural....Schechter's macabre
stories unfold like finely-tuned crime novels...well-documented
nightmares for anyone who dares to look.
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