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  • A True American Psycho
  • By: Brian Lee Tucker
  • Narrated by: Ron Allan
  • Length: 2 hrs and 17 mins
  • 3.2 out of 5 stars (5 ratings)
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Summary

There's arguably no one man who's been more inadvertently influential to the horror genre than Mr. Edward Gein. Because of him, authors and screenwriters were inspired to create the following characters: Norman Bates in Psycho, Leatherface in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and Buffalo Bill in The Silence of the Lambs. But let's not give Gein too much credit here. After all, he was a murderer who also dug corpses out of graveyards and made trophies and other home-adorning paraphernalia from their bones and flesh. In 1957, the Plainfield, WI, native confessed to a pair of murders, saying that he offed two local women over a three-year span. And when the authorities searched his home, they discovered a treasure trove of horror: human skin covering chairs, bowls made from skulls, four loose noses, the two victims' severed heads in bags, a belt made from female nipples, a lampshade made from a person's face, and 10 women's heads with the tops cut off, amongst other grotesqueries. OK, one more, for good measure: They also found nine vulvae snipped off and placed in a shoe box. Welcome to the real world of Ed Gein, told in his own words.

©2015 Brian Lee Tucker (P)2015 Brian Lee Tucker

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Somewhat inaccurate - possibly semi - fiction

I am somewhat of a self made Ed Gein expert. I have studied him and his life extensively and read nearly everything there is to read about him, yet I found this book seems to have added things to his story that never happened. I write this review several hours after finishing the book so I dont recall everything that was said in it but 2 things I do remember are:
1) The book suggested that he murdered two young girls who were out selling girl scout cookies - this did not happen. His only 2 known victims were Mary Hogan and Bernice Warden. He was merely suspected of killing his brother - he never admitted to it and this story is the first I have ever heard of anh girl scout victims.
2) He did not commit sex acts on the corpses. When asked about it he said that they "smelled too bad".

There were several other things that I found to be completely wrong, but this is just a review so I shan't address them all.

The book is interesting to listen to and the narration wasn't too bad, but a lot of it seemed to be made up.

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