Deviant: The Shocking True Story of Ed Gein, the Original “Psycho”
The Story of the Man Who Inspired Norman Bates and Buffalo Bill Author: Harold Schechter Harold Schechter’s Deviant is the true crime account of Ed Gein, a seemingly unassuming man in a rural town in Wisconsin whose crimes inspired cinema depictions of psychopathic killers all the way from Norman Bates in Psycho to Buffalo Bill in Silence of the Lambs (as well as others – consider the house “decorations” in Texas Chainsaw Massacre.) This audiobook was my first encounter with this famous killer, and it was surprising to see that this man’s nightmarish existence has inspired some of the darkest, most [...]
