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From the author of "top-drawer true crime" (Booklist) books comes the definitive account of Ed Gein--the man whose shocking crimes inspired Psycho, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, and The Silence of the Lambs.

Here is the grisly story of Ed Gein, the killer whose fiendish fantasies inspired Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. In chilling detail, Deviant explores the career of one of the most twisted madmen in American crime.

Schechter explores the incredible career of the man who committed what TIME magazine called one of the century's most gruesome crimes. Here is the grisly story of Ed Gein, the killer whose fiendish fantasies inspired Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. Reissue.