Psycho USA : Famous American Killers You Never Heard Of

English

ISBN: 0345524470

EAN: 9780345524478

Category: Biography & Autobiography / Criminals & Outlaws/True Crime / Murder / General/

Publisher: Random House Publishing Group

Release Date: 08/09/2012

Synopsis: Master of the true crime genre, world renowned serial killer expert, and author of The Serial Killer Files, Harold Schechter offers up a hair-raising, page-turning compendium of utterly fascinating yet unknown true tales of American murder and mayhem.An entire world of fascinating historical crime remains unfamiliar to all but devoted scholars of the subject: horrific murders that were, in their day, genuine cultural phenomena, dominating headlines and exerting a powerful grip on the public imagination. Generally these crimes contained some particularly nightmarish element - a taste of the sublime of horror, as one nineteenth-century journalist put it. Sometimes before fading into obscurity, they inspired literature like Poes masterpiece The Tell-Tale Heart. In this riveting collection, Harold Schechter reimagines scores of the most sensational murders that in their day shocked the nation. With exacting, chilling detail, Schechters carefully researched narrative reconstructions bring to vivid life these scandalous crimes.

Psycho USA : Famous American Killers You Never Heard Of

Illustrated: Yes

Format: Paperback

Height: 1.02 inches

Width: 7.52 inches

Length: 9.17 inches

Weight: 27.51 oz

Pages: 352