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From the author of "top-drawer true crime" (Booklist) books comes the definitive account of Ed Gein--the man whose shocking crimes inspired Psycho, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, and The Silence of the Lambs. The year was 1957. To his Wisconsin neighbors, Ed Gein was a slight, Midwestern farmhand with a twisted little smile. To an unsuspecting nation, he would become one of the most notorious crime figures in history, having lived for ten years in his own secret world of brutal murder and unthinkable depravity. Here is the grisly true story of "the Butcher of Plainfield," a deranged killer whose fiendish fantasies inspired such works as Psycho, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and The Silence of the Lambs. More horrifying than any movie or novel however, Deviant dares to explore in chilling detail the life and times of one of the most twisted madmen in the annals of true crime--one who still haunts us to this day--and how he transformed his small, nondescript farmhouse in the American heartland into his own private and inescapable domain of ghoulishness and blood.

In February 1874 Alfred Packer staggered out of the Colorado mountains and into the Los Pinos Indian agency. Snowbound and lost, he claimed to have been abandoned by his five companions. But behind the wilderness grime he looked rather well fed. And he had in his possession a skinning knife... When questioned, Packer confessed that four of the group had survived by eating two who had died of exhaustion; later he killed another in self-defence, eating him also. Packer was arrested on suspicion of murder but escaped. That same month, the half-eaten bodies of five men were discovered near Los Pinos… Packer's guilt was assumed, but the law did not catch up with him until 1883. Initially sentenced to death, he received a 40-year jail term. Paroled in 1901, he lived his last years in Denver. Was Packer the flesh-eating monster of myth, or a wretch who acted out of self-preservation? MANEATER tells his story in page-turning prose and also reveals how recent forensic developments may shed light on Packer's long-assumed cannibalism.

ETO NE KINO, ETO REALNYE PRESTUPLENIJa! Fraza "Osnovano na realnykh sobytijakh" v nachale filma momentalno delaet ljuboj sjuzhet stokrat interesnee. Ved zhizn - luchshij stsenarist. To, chto poroj proiskhodit v realnosti, kuda bolee shokirujuschee i neverojatnoe, chem sposoben pridumat dazhe samyj iskusnyj dramaturg. I eta kniga kak raz o tekh filmakh, sozdateli kotorykh vdokhnovljalis realnymi prestuplenijami. Gromkie ubijstva, nevoobrazimaja zhestokost, izvraschennye pytki, derzkie ograblenija, koshki-myshki s detektivami i ledenjaschij dushu strakh - izljublennyj nabor ljubogo poklonnika tru-krajma. - "Psikho"; - "Alfa Dog"; - "Krik"; - "Pokhititeli tel"; - "U kholmov est glaza"; - "Ubijstvo v "Vostochnom ekspresse"; - "Grjaznyj Garri" - i esche bolee 30 filmov s nevydumannymi istorijami prestuplenij! Vy dumali, chto znaete pravdu obo vsekh kinoshnykh manjakakh i ubijtsakh? Kak by ne tak! "Trukrajm v kino. Prestuplenija, kotorye legli v osnovu kultovykh filmov" rasskazhet o prestuplenijakh, kotorye davno pozabyty, no prodolzhajut zhit blagodarja kinematografu!

Klounskie kartiny Dzhona Uejna Gejsi, rozhdestvenskie otkrytki s avtografom Teda Bandi, shifr Zodiaka, lestnitsa, ispolzovavshajasja pri pokhischenii rebenka Lindberga, vstavnye zuby zhenschiny - serijnoj ubijtsy 1908 goda, zadokumentirovannoe priznanie ubijtsy Elizabet Short, drobovik, iz kotorogo zastrelili semju Katter, i mnogie drugie veschi, kotorye kogda-to prinadlezhali izvestnym ubijtsam ili byli kak-to svjazany s ikh prestuplenijami. Vo vremena, kogda politsija esche ne dogadalas otsepljat territorii prestuplenij, okhotniki za "suvenirami" sobiralis v mestakh zhestokikh ubijstv, unosja s soboj kazhdyj element potentsialno vazhnoj uliki. Tak, posle ubijstva semi Diring "muzhchina toroplivo opustilsja na koleni na kuchu solomy i navoza, nashel okrovavlennuju solominku, akkuratno zavernul ee v bumagu i esche bolee akkuratno polozhil v karman zhileta".

Iz-za nesovershenstva sistemy nachala 20-go veka prestupnik mog legko: - izmenit svoe imja neskolko raz i ostatsja beznakazannym; - pokinut gorod, v kotorom rodilsja, i stat tem, kem on khochet byt; - pridumat sebe alibi, kotoroe prakticheski nevozmozhno proverit; - ostavit javnye uliki na meste prestuplenija, na kotorye nikto ne obratit vnimanie. "Garold Shekhter, amerikanskij ekspert po prestuplenijam, v ocherednoj raz zakhodit v samye temnye ugolki. Opisannye im prestuplenija napominajut istorii o prividenijakh, kotorye rasskazyvajut u kostra: zakhvatyvajuschie, pugajuschie i nezabyvaemye". - Robert Kolker, avtor knig "Chto-to ne tak s Gelvinami" i "Ischeznuvshie devushki""Uvlekatelnoe i maksimalno detalnoe povestvovanie o dejstvitelno zhutkikh prestuplenijakh v SSHA v nachale 20-go veka. Kak odin chelovek sposoben pogubit desjatki nevinnykh ljudej? Pochemu prestupniki ne zhalejut dazhe malenkikh detej? Raskaivajutsja li oni na sude ili na eshafote? Vnutri etoj knigi vy, vozmozhno, najdete otvety". - Aljona Lenkovskaja, ugolovnyj jurist, juridicheskij psikholog i avtor populjarnogo bloga alenushkalen

Shel 1957 god. Dlja svoikh sosedej iz fermerskoj obschiny v Amerike Ed Gejn byl neprimechatelnym, tikhim kholostjakom s krivoj ulybkoj i strannym jumorom. Nikto ne znal, chto uzhe 10 let on zhivet v svoem tajnom mire zhestokikh ubijstv i nemyslimykh izvraschenij, i vot nastal moment, kogda raskrylas vsja pravda o ego zverstvakh... Avtor Garold Shekhter - amerikanskij pisatel-kriminalist, pochetnyj professor v kolledzhe Kuins, spetsializirujuschijsja na prestuplenijakh, v chastnosti serijnykh ubijstvakh 19-go i 20-go vekov. Ispolzuja gazetnye vyrezki i sudebnye zapisi, on predostavljaet podrobnuju dokumentatsiju kazhdogo opisyvaemogo sluchaja, pri etom sozdavaja zakhvatyvajuschie povestvovanija i polnostju prorabotannykh personazhej. Ego raboty publikovalis v takikh izdanijakh, kak The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times i mnogikh drugikh. V knige "Ed Gejn" Garold Shekhter rasskazyvaet istoriju serijnogo ubijtsy, che imja progremelo na ves mir. Ed Gejn izvesten kak "mjasnik iz Plejnfilda". On byl raskhititelem grobnits i izvraschentsem, kotoryj prevratil svoju fermu v masterskuju po izgotovleniju mebeli, posudy i odezhdy iz chastej chelovecheskikh tel. - Kak detstvo Eda razrushilo ego psikhicheskoe zdorove? - Chto pobudilo ego sovershat takie veschi, kotorye dazhe ne ukladyvajutsja v golove? - Kakie shokirujuschie sekrety khranila ferma ubijtsy? - Chto proiskhodilo s Edom Gejnom posle ego razoblachenija? - Kak ego obraz povlijal na kulturu? V etoj knige vy najdete otvety na eti voprosy i okunetes v strashnuju, no zakhvatyvajuschuju dukh istoriju.

Historical fact and startling literary invention converge in this stunning novel by "America's principal chronicler of its greatest psychopathic killers" (The Boston Book Review). Praised by Caleb Carr for his "brilliantly detailed and above all riveting" true-crime writing, Harold Schechter brings his expertise to a marvelous work of fiction in the tradition of Carr's own The Alienist. Superbly rendering the 1830s Baltimore of Edgar Allan Poe, Schechter taps into the dark genius of that legendary author -- and follows a labyrinthine path into the heart of a most heinous crime. He is an aspiring writer, plagued by dreadful ruminations -- a man whose troubled nights are haunted by dreams of his angelic cousin Virginia. He is Edgar Allan Poe, a literary critic known for his uncompromising standards and scathing pen. His recently published attack on the autobiography of Colonel David Crockett, U.S. congressman and celebrated American hero, has brought the indignant frontiersman -- unexpected, uninvited -- to the chamber door of Poe's private sanctum. Neither man is prepared for where this fateful meeting will take them: on a quest for a killer through the city's highest and lowest streets and byways. In a modest boarding house, an elderly widow of sad circumstance has been found murdered by an unknown assailant. On the wall above her bed, scrawled in the victim's blood, is a single, cryptic word. But the meaning of the chilling clue is merely one piece in a complex puzzle that ensnares the writer and the politician in a twisted and deadly game. For the ghastly crimes, each more bizarre than the last, have only just begun. Combining the phantasmagoric voice of Poe's legendary tales with an historian's exactness, Harold Schechter hovers between fact and fiction, horror and passion, destiny and doom, while conjuring historical detail with uncanny precision. Published to coincide with the 150th anniversary of Poe's death, Nevermore is both a tour de force of narrative suspense and a dazzling secret history of one of American literature's unique and enduring figures.

Pri vsem uzhase i otvraschenii, kotorye vyzyvajut v nas serijnye ubijstva, nevozmozhno otritsat, chto eto javlenie obladaet mrachnym svojstvom pritjagivat vnimanie. I delo zdes ne tolko v ljubopytstve. Nam khochetsja ponjat, pochemu ljudi, s vidu obychnye, pokhozhie na kazhdogo iz nas, obladajut serdtsem i razumom chudovischa.Avtory etoj knigi amerikanskie issledovateli-kriminalisty Devid Everit i Garold Shekhter reshili zagljanut v bezdnu i razgadat prirodu zla, tsarjaschego v soznanii prestupnikov. Otvety na vse voprosy, kotorye vy ne reshalis zadat, v etoj knige!