In the winter of 1873, a small band of prospectors lost their way in the frozen wilderness of the Colorado Rockies. Months later, when the snow finally melted, only one of them emerged. His name was Alfred G. Packer, though he would soon become infamous throughout the country under a different name: “the Man-Eater.”After the butchered remains of his five traveling companions were discovered in a secluded valley by the Gunnison River, Packer vanished for nine years, becoming the West’s most wanted man. What followed was a saga of evasion and retribution as the trial of the century worked to extricate fact from myth and Polly Pry, a once-famed pioneering journalist, took on the cause of Packer. Man-Eater is the definitive story of a legendary crime―a gripping tale of unspeakable suffering, the desperate struggle for survival, and the fight to uncover the truth.

Product Description: In the winter of 1873, a small band of prospectors lost their way in the frozen wilderness of the Colorado Rockies. Months later, when the snow finally melted, only one of them emerged. His name was Alfred G. Packer, though he would soon become infamous throughout the country under a different name: “the Man-Eater...read more

Product Description: 2015 Edgar Award NomineeBeekman Place, once one of the most exclusive addresses in Manhattan, had a curious way of making it into the tabloids in the 1930s: SKYSCRAPER SLAYER, BEAUTY SLAIN IN BATHTUB read the headlines. On Easter Sunday in 1937, the discovery of a grisly triple homicide at Beekman Place would rock the neighborhood yet again―and enthrall the nation...read more

Product Description: 2015 Edgar Award NomineeBeekman Place, once one of the most exclusive addresses in Manhattan, had a curious way of making it into the tabloids in the 1930s: SKYSCRAPER SLAYER, BEAUTY SLAIN IN BATHTUB read the headlines. On Easter Sunday in 1937, the discovery of a grisly triple homicide at Beekman Place would rock the neighborhood yet again―and enthrall the nation...read more

Product Description: AMERICA’S MOST COLD-BLOODED!   In the horrifying annals of American crime, the infamous names of brutal killers such as Bundy, Dahmer, Gacy, and Berkowitz are writ large in the imaginations of a public both horrified and hypnotized by their monstrous, murderous acts...read more

Product Description: 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...read more

Product Description: When reporter Paul Novak investigates a series of brutal murders, he didn't plan to pry into the legend of Ed Gein, the butcher of Plainfield, Wisconsin. But when local lore leads him to the ramshackle home of a bizarre young man and his mother, Paul realizes he's stumbled across Ed Gein's best kept secret...read more

Reveals the true story behind the life and crimes of Albert Fish, a grandfatherly type who, in the 1930s, kidnapped and murdered countless children

Investigating a series of brutal murders, reporter Paul Novak stumbles into the legend of Ed Gein, the 'butcher of Plainfield, Wisconsin,' and follows local lore to the ramshackle home of a bizarre young man. Original.

Product Description: From renowned true-crime historian Harold Schechter comes the riveting exploration of a notorious New York City murder in the 1890s, the fascinating forensic science of an earlier time, and the grisly court case that became a tabloid spectacle...read more

The savage tale of one of America's worst serial killers follows Earle Leonard Nelson from his strange but seemingly harmless adolescence through his 1926 violent crime spree, which involved murder, rape, and necrophilia. Reprint.

A compelling account of scandal, sex, jealousy, and murder in Gilded Age New York high society profiles the debonair Roland Molineux, the scion of a powerful American family, one of New York's most eligible bachelors, and possible killer who used poison to eliminate romantic and sports rivals. 35,000 first printing.

An unusual collection of poetry offers a series of poetic responses to other poems, including Raleigh's answer to Marlowe's 'The Passionate Shepherd to His Love,' Ogden Nash's send up of Byron, and Mona van Duyn's portrait of Leda's reflections on the swan. 10,000 first printing.

A revised edition is comprised of hundreds of entries on serial murderers and their crimes, offering insight into the phenomenon of serial killing while sharing a wealth of well-publicized and lesser-known details. Original. 25,000 first printing.

Heading for Massachusetts in search of a cure for his ailing wife, Edgar Allan Poe becomes embroiled in an investigation into a series of brutal murders, joining forces with a clever young woman named Louisa May Alcott to bring together the clues in seemingly unrelated cases to unmask a depraved and brilliant killer. 12,000 first printing.

In the wake of two brutal murders in mid-nineteenth-century Manhattan, a human attraction at P.T. Barnum's American Museum is accused, and writer Edgar Allan Poe, believing in the man's innocence, deduces that an increasingly dangerous killer is responsible. By the author of The Hum Bug and Nevermore. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

Argues that violence in the media actually serves as a beneficial outlet, presenting corollary challenges to current beliefs about excessive violence in today's media and entertainment to contend that the modern generation's exposure to violence is less than that of historical periods. By the author of The Serial Killer Files. 20,000 first printing.

Product Description: Harold Schechter looks at the impossible tales and images of popular art--the space odysseys and extraterrestrial civilizations, the caped crusaders and men of steel, and monsters from the ocean floor--and finds close connections between religious myth and popular entertainment.

Profiles H. H. Holmes, who tortured and murdered some twenty-seven people in a suburb of late nineteenth-century Chicago, and offers insight into the mind of a killer who was also the architect of the infamous 'Castle of Horror.' Reissue.