DEVIANT The Shocking True Story of Ed Gein, the Original 'Psycho'

Paperback. The year was 1957. Photographs would show him across the country: a slight Wisconsin man with a twisted little smile, a man who had lived for 10yrs in his own secret world of murder and depravity. Here is the grisly true story of Ed Gein, the killer whose fiendish fantasies inspired Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho" - the mild-mannered farmhand bound to his domineering mother, driven into a series of gruesome and bizarre acts beyond all imagining. In chilling detail, the author explores the incredible career of one of the most twisted madmen in the annals of American crime - and how he turned a small Wisconsin farmhouse into his own private playground of ghoulishness and blood. Illus. 274pp. p/back. Lightly browned pp. o/w Vg+