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Did You Hear What Eddie Gein Done? TPB (Kickstarter exclusive edition) (2021)

[this artwork is a reused of Kitchen Sink's classic Weird Trips Magazine #2 (1978) cover featuring Ed Gein.]

Art by: William Stout

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Bestial: The Savage Trail of a True American Monster-by Harold Schechter (1999) Gallery Books

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 have proved him one of history's fiercest madmen. As an infant, Earle Leonard Nelson possessed the power to unsettle his elders. As a child he was unnaturally obsessed with the Bible; before he reached puberty, he had an insatiable, aberrant sex drive. By his teens, even Earle's own family had reason to fear him. But no one in the bone-chilling winter of 1926 could have predicted that his degeneracy would erupt in a sixteen-month frenzy of savage rape, barbaric murder, and unimaginable defilement -- deeds that would become the hallmarks of one of the most notorious fiends of the twentieth century, whose blood-lust would not be equaled until the likes of Henry Lee Lucas, John Wayne Gacy, and Jeffrey Dahmer.

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Title: Bloodlands

Author: Harold Schechter

Series or standalone: series

Publication year: 2018

Genres: nonfiction, crime, history, mystery, horror

Blurb: In 1860, a sloop drifted into New York Harbour, not a soul on board...just blood from cabin to deck. Looted coins led to Bowery thug Albert Hicks, the axe-slayer who turned his shipmates into chum. His crimes were absolutely fiendish; his execution was pure ballyhoo. It drew nearly ten thousand bloodthirsty sightseers to the city, including the enterprising showman P.T. Barnum. Refreshments were served as the most notorious and unrepentant mass murderer of the era made history as one of America's first celebrity killers.

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Summary: 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 psychopath who’s gotten ink for spilling blood, there’s a bevy of all-but-forgotten homicidal fiends studding the bloody margins of U.S. history. The law gave them their just desserts, but now the hugely acclaimed author of The Serial Killer Files and The Whole Death Catalog gives them their dark due in this absolutely riveting true-crime treasury. Among America’s most cold-blooded you’ll meet

 

• Robert Irwin, “The Mad Sculptor”: He longed to use his carving skills on the woman he loved—but had to settle for making short work of her mother and sister instead.

 

• Peter Robinson, “The Tell-Tale Heart Killer”: It took two days and four tries for him to finish off his victim, but no time at all for keen-eyed cops to spot the fatal flaw in his floor plan.

 

• Anton Probst, “The Monster in the Shape of a Man”: The ax-murdering immigrant’s systematic slaughter of all eight members of a Pennsylvania farm family matched the savagery of the Manson murders a century later.

 

• Edward H. Ruloff, “The Man of Two Lives”: A genuine Jekyll and Hyde, his brilliant scholarship disguised his bloodthirsty brutality, and his oversized brain gave new meaning to “mastermind.”

 

Spurred by profit, passion, paranoia, or perverse pleasure, these killers—the Witch of Staten Island, the Smutty Nose Butcher, the Bluebeard of Quiet Dell, and many others—span three centuries and a host of harrowing murder methods. Dramatized in the pages of penny dreadfuls, sensationalized in tabloid headlines, and immortalized in “murder ballads” and classic fiction by Edgar Allan Poe and Theodore Dreiser, the demonic denizens of Psycho USA may be long gone to the gallows—but this insidiously irresistible slice of gothic Americana will ensure that they’ll no longer be forgotten.

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Did You Hear What Eddie Gein Done? GN (August 11, 2021)

writer: Harold Schechter | artist and letters: Eric Powell | editor: Tracy Marsh | designer: Phil Balsman | publishing company: Albatross Funnybooks

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Lenni Reviews: "Did You Hear What Eddie Gein Done?" by Harold Schechter & Eric Powell

Lenni Reviews: “Did You Hear What Eddie Gein Done?” by Harold Schechter & Eric Powell

(Image Source) This graphic novel starts from Ed Gein’s childhood and goes through his entire life and horrific crimes. The art style allows for realism and shows a bit of gore but remains as respectful as you can be talking about a guy who made skin suits and masks. This feels like watching a true crime documentary and I mean that in the best way. It not only goes through his life and crimes,…

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I always think of him as like, the citizens of Mayberry have just discovered that Barney Fife was a cross-dressing, homicidal, maniac.

Harold Schechter accurately describing his personal idea of Ed Gein as a person

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Albatross Funnybooks Reveals Plans For True Crime OGN Based On Ed Gein

Albatross Funnybooks Reveals Plans For True Crime OGN Based On Ed Gein

Harold Schechter teams with graphic novelist Eric Powell to bring you the tale of one of the most notoriously deranged murderers in American history, Ed Gein. Powell is probably best known as the creator of the long-running occult noir series The Goon. Schechter is a true crime author who penned nonfiction books Deviant and The Serial Killer Files. Did You Hear What Eddie Gein Done? is an…

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