Bestial
The Savage Trail of a True American Monster
$41.34
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
9 November 1999
Summary
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 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; …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780671732189 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0671732188 |
| Author: | Harold Schechter |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster |
| Imprint: | Gallery |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 9 November 1999 |
| Weight: | 351g |
| Dimensions: | 235mm x 156mm x 25mm |
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The Boston Book Review America’s foremost pop historian of serial murder.
The Boston Book Review 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.
Journal Star (Peoria, IL) [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.
About The Author
Harold Schechter
Harold Schechter is Professor Emeritus at Queens College, where he taught classes in American literature and myth criticism for forty-two years. His essays have appeared in publications including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, and many more. An esteemed true crime historian, he has written the definitive accounts of some of America’s most infamous murderers, including the nonfiction books Fatal, Fiend, Bestial, Deviant, Deranged, Depraved, and The Serial Killers File. He is the editor of the Library of America volume, True Crime: An American Anthology. He has twice been a finalist for an Edgar Award. His most recent books include Butcher’s Work: True Crime Tales of American Murder and Madness and Murderabilia: A History of Crime in 100 Objects. In addition to his work in narrative nonfiction, Schechter is the author of an acclaimed series of detective novels based on the works of Edgar Allan Poe. He lives with his family in New York.
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