The man behind the massacre was a slight, unassuming Midwesterner with a strange smile-and even stranger attachment to his domineering mother. The place was an ordinary farmhouse in America's heartland, filled with extraordinary evidence of unthinkable depravity. From "America's principal chronicler of its greatest psychopathic killers" ( The Boston Book Review) comes the definitive account of Ed Gein, a mild-mannered Wisconsin farmhand who stunned an unsuspecting nation-and redefined the meaning of the word "psycho." The year was 1957. Now in its first trade paperback edition, "Deviant" details how killer Ed Gein turned a small Wisconsin farmhouse into a retreat of ghoulishness and blood.īook Synopsis The truth behind the twisted crimes that inspired the films Psycho, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, and The Silence of the Lambs. About the Book The grisly true story that inspired Hitchcock's classic film "Psycho".
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