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LOOK FOR THESE TRUE-CRIME SHOCKERS BY “AMERICA’S PRINCIPAL CHRONICLER OF ITS GREATEST PSYCHOPATHIC KILLERS.”*

BESTIAL

“Compelling…chilling.”

—Amazon.com

DEVIANT

“Top-drawer true-crime.”

—Booklist

DERANGED

“Horrifying.”

—American Libraries

DEPRAVED

“Shocking.”

—Ann Rule

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THE A TO Z ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SERIAL KILLERS
by Harold Schechter and David Everitt

“The scholarship is both genuine and fascinating.”
—The Boston Book Review*

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CRITICAL ACCLAIM FOR HAROLD SCHECHTER’S MASTERFUL HISTORICAL NOVEL NEVERMORE

“Authentic…. Engaging…. Schechter manages at once to be faithful to Poe’s voice, and to poke gentle fun at it—to swing breezily between parody and homage.”

—The Baltimore Sun

“Schechter … recounts the legendary author’s brush with real-life homicide as one of Poe’s own protagonists would—with morbid, scientific rapture … plenty of suspense and nicely integrated background details.”

—Publishers Weekly

“[A] tantalizing tale full of tongue twisters and terror….”

—Booklist

“Caleb Carr and Tom Holland are going to have some competition for turf in the land of historical literary crime fiction.”

—The Boston Book Review

“Schechter does a good job of re-creating Poe’s phantas-magoric style.”

—San Antonio Express News

“Wonderful…. I highly recommend NEVERMORE. I had more fun with this book than any I have read in a long time.”

—Denver Rocky Mountain News

“A real page-turner…. Deftly re-creates 1830s Baltimore and brings Poe to life…. [Poe] makes an engaging sleuth.”

—Richmond Times Dispatch

PRAISE FOR HAROLD SCHECHTER’S TRUE-CRIME MASTERPIECES

BESTIAL

The Savage Trail of a True American Monster

“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.”

—The Boston Book Review

“Bestial spare[s] no graphic detail…. Reads like fast-paced fiction, complete with action, plot twists, suspense, and eerie foreshadowing…. The story provides chilling insights into the motivations of a man who killed for killing’s sake.”

—Amazon.com

“[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.”

—Journal Star (Peoria, IL)

DEPRAVED

The Shocking True Story of America’s First Serial Killer

“Must reading for crime buffs. Gruesome, awesome, compelling reporting.”

—Ann Rule, bestselling author of A Rage to Kill

“A meticulously researched, brilliantly detailed and above all riveting account of Dr. H. H. Holmes, a nineteenth-century serial killer who embodied the ferociously dark side of America’s seemingly timeless preoccupations with ambition, money and power. Schechter has done his usual sterling job in resurrecting this amazing tale.”

—Caleb Carr, bestselling author of The Alienist

DERANGED

The Shocking True Story of America’s Most Fiendish Killer

“Reads like fiction but it’s chillingly real…. What Albert Fish did … would chill the bones of Edgar Allan Poe.”

—Philadelphia Inquirer

DEVIANT

The Shocking True Story of Ed Gein, the Original “Psycho”