Harold Schechter: 16 books
Edgar Poe and the Mystery Museum
An Edgar Allan Poe Mystery Tale
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2013
Harold Schechter revisits the chilling world of Nevermore in this historical murder mystery starring Edgar Allan Poe. It’s the spring of 1844 and Poe and his young wife, Sissy, have moved to Manhattan, the publishing center of America. When showman P.T. Barnum advertises a display of...
Edgar Poe and the Concord Killer
An Edgar Allan Poe Mystery Tale
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2013
Harold Schechter revisits the chilling world of Nevermore in this historical murder mystery starring Edgar Allan Poe. It’s the spring of 1844 and Poe and his young wife, Sissy, have moved to Manhattan, the publishing center of America. When showman P.T. Barnum advertises a display of...
The Devil's Gentleman
Privilege, Poison, and the Trial That Ushered in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2008
From renowned true-crime historian Harold Schechter, whom The Boston Book Review hails as “America’s principal chronicler of its greatest psychopathic killers,” comes the riveting exploration of a notorious, sensational New York City murder in the 1890s, the fascinating forensic science of an...
Edgar Poe and the Frontier Fiend
An Edgar Allan Poe Mystery Tale
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2013
In this historical murder mystery Harold Schechter revisits the chilling world of Edgar Poe and the Mystery Museum. During the sweltering summer of 1845, the savage murder of two girls shocks the citizens of Manhattan. Edgar Allen Poe, despite the grisly subject matter of his own writings, is...
The Whole Death Catalog
A Lively Guide to the Bitter End
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009
In the tradition of Mary Roach’s bestselling Stiff and Jessica Mitford’s classic exposé The American Way of Death comes this meticulously researched, refreshingly irreverent, and lavishly illustrated look at death from acclaimed author Harold Schechter. With his trademark fearlessness and bracing...
by Harold Schechter
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2010
Praised by Caleb Carr for his "brilliantly detailed and above all riveting" true-crime writing, Harold Schechter brings his expertise to a marvelous work of fiction. Superbly rendering the 1830s Baltimore of Edgar Allan Poe, Schechter taps into the dark genius of that legendary author -- and follows...
Bestial
The Savage Trail of a True American Monster
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
FROM SOCIAL OUTCAST TO NECROPHILE AND MURDERER -- HIS APPALLING CRIMES STUNNED AN ERA.
San Francisco, the 1920s. In an age when nightmares were relegated to the fiction of Edgar Allan Poe and distant tales of the Whitechapel murders, a real-life monster terrorized America. His acts of butchery...
Deranged
The Shocking True Story of America's Most Fiendish Killer
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2009
LURED FROM THE SAFETY OF HOME -- INTO THE JAWS OF HELL
"America's principal chronicler of its greatest psychopathic killers" (The Boston Book Review), Harold Schechter shatters the myth that violent crime is a modern phenomenon -- with this seamless true account of unvarnished horror from the...
by Harold Schechter
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
Bestselling true-crime writer Harold Schechter, a leading authority on serial killers, and coauthor David Everitt offer a guided tour through the bizarre and blood-chilling world of serial murder. Through hundreds of detailed entries that span the entire spectrum -- the shocking crimes, the infamous...
by Harold Schechter
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2008
The heinous bloodlust of Dr. H.H. Holmes is notorious -- but only Harold Schechter's Depraved tells the complete story of the killer whose evil acts of torture and murder flourished within miles of the Chicago World's Fair. "Destined to be a true crime classic" (Flint Journal, MI), this authoritative...
by Harold Schechter
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2010
The truth behind the twisted crimes that inspired the films Psycho, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, and The Silence of the Lambs...
From “America’s principal chronicler of its greatest psychopathic killers” (The Boston Book Review) comes the definitive account of Ed Gein, a mild-mannered...
Fiend
The Shocking True Story Of Americas Youngest Seria
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
A MONSTER PREYED UPON THE CHILDREN OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY BOSTON. HIS CRIMES WERE APPALLING -- AND YET HE WAS LITTLE MORE THAN A CHILD HIMSELF.
When fourteen-year-old Jesse Pomeroy was arrested in 1874, a nightmarish reign of terror over an unsuspecting city came to an end. "The Boston Boy Fiend"...
by Aaron Elliott, Harold Schechter, Michael Newton
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014
Another triple feature! Serial Killer Quarterly, “Unsolved in North America”, focuses on 6 American and 2 Canadian cases of multiple murderer in which the slayer has eluded justice.
Three years before Jack the Ripper stalked the streets of Whitechapel, a bold and barefoot killer was slipping...
Psycho USA
Famous American Killers You Never Heard Of
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
AMERICA’S MOST COLD-BLOODED!
In the horrifying annals of American crime, the infamous names of brutal killers such as Bundy, Dahmer, Gacy, and Berkowitz are writ large in the imaginations of a public both horrified and hypnotized by their monstrous, murderous acts. But for every celebrity...
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