Psychos: Serial Killers, Depraved Madmen, and the Criminally Insane
John Skipp, Neil Gaiman, Thomas Harris, Ray Bradbury, Lawrence Block, Edgar Allan Poe, Simon McCaffery, Mehitobel Wilson, Jack Ketchum, Leslianne Wilder, Jim Shepard, Joan Aiken, Richard Connell, Robert Bloch, Ed Kurtz, Laura Lee Bahr, William Gay, Joe R. Lansdale, Mercedes M. Yardley, Steve Rasnic Tem, David J. Schow, Leah Mann, Kevin L. Donihe, Norman Partridge, Bentley Little, Adam-Troy Castro, John Gorumba, Violet Lavoit, Christopher Coake, Scot Bradley, Peter Giglio, Cody Goodfellow, Weston Ochse, Amelia Beamer, Elizabeth Massie, Nick Mamatas, Brian Hodge, Robert Devereaux, Kathe Koja, John Boden
3.83 · 6 ratings · Published: 25 Sep 2012
From Hannibal Lecter (The Silence of the Lambs) to Patrick Bateman (American Psycho), stories of serial killers and psychos loom large and menacing in our collective psyche. Tales of their grisly conquests have kept us cowering under the covers, but still turning the pages.
Psychos is the first book to collect in a single volume the scariest and most well-crafted fictional works about these deranged killers. Some of the stories are classics, the best that the genre has to offer, by renowned writers such as Neil Gaiman, Jack Ketchum, Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Bloch, and Thomas Harris. Other selections are from the latest and most promising crop of new authors.
John Skipp, who is also the editor of Zombies, Demons and Werewolves and Shapeshifters, provides fascinating insight, through two nonfiction essays, into our insatiable obsession with serial killers and how these madmen are portrayed in popular culture. Resources at the end of the book includes lists of the genre's best long-form fiction, movies, websites, and writers.
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