Biography - Schechter, Harold (1948-): An article from: ...
 Author: Gale Reference Team Binding: Digital Format: HTML Number Of Pages: 11 Publication Date: 2006-01-01 Release Date: 2007-12-16 [... more]
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True Crime: An American Anthology
This is a winner for fans of true crime: I hate to admit this publicly, but this excellent anthology highlights Americans' (including guilty me) macabre fascination with crime through famous authors who over the years, especially the last few decades, [... more]
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Savage Pastimes: A Cultural History of Violent Entertainment
Interesting but insufficient: The purpose of this book is to provide a history of violent entertainment. A lot of empirical studies in this field have been generated out of the social sciences in Western society over the last century or so. These texts [... more]
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Deranged: The Shocking True Story of America's Most ...
Amazon.com Review: Harold Schechter is a professor of American culture at Queens College (CUNY) who takes an academic interest in the history of violent folklore: "Our pop entertainments aren't necessarily more brutal than those of the past," [... more]
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Depraved
Amazon.com Review: Herman Mudgett, who called himself Dr. H. H. Holmes, seemed the epitome of the late 19th century "Golden Age": he was a well-dressed, charismatic, self-made entrepreneur (think Andrew Carnegie). Unfortunately for his many [... more]
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The Devil's Gentleman: Privilege, Poison, and the Trial ...
The Original Media Circus: The book provides and excellent description of Victorian life and the Victorian mindset, but I was unable to shake the mind-boggling Victorian habit of actually TAKING some unidentified medicine that someone you don't know sent [... more]
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The Mask of Red Death: An Edgar Allan Poe Mystery
Author: Harold Schechter Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 813 EAN: 9780449007228 ISBN: 0449007227 Number Of Pages: 320 Publication Date: 2005-07-26 Release Date: 2005-07-26 [... more]
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Bestial
Amazon.com Review: Earle Leonard Nelson may well have been America's first serial killer. In the winter of 1926, he began a string of murders that spanned the U.S. and Canada, horrifying and confounding both the public and the police. Bestial tells the [... more]
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The Mask of Red Death
Amazon.com Review: With a cannibalistic mountain man menacing New York City in 1845, who better to curb the butcher's appetites--permanently--than the one man perhaps best prepared to understand his macabre nature: Edgar Allan Poe? That's right, the same [... more]
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The Whole Death Catalogue: A Lively Guide to the Bitter End
Author: Harold Schechter Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 300 EAN: 9780345499646 ISBN: 0345499646 Number Of Pages: 320 Publication Date: 2009-05-19 Release Date: 2009-05-19 [... more]
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Deranged: The Shocking True Story of America's Most ...
Amazon.com Review: Harold Schechter is a professor of American culture at Queens College (CUNY) who takes an academic interest in the history of violent folklore: "Our pop entertainments aren't necessarily more brutal than those of the past," [... more]
$7.99
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Bestial
Amazon.com Review: Earle Leonard Nelson may well have been America's first serial killer. In the winter of 1926, he began a string of murders that spanned the U.S. and Canada, horrifying and confounding both the public and the police. Bestial tells the [... more]
$7.99
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