Harold Schechter's Books
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The A to Z Encyclopedia of Serial KillersBestselling true-crime writer Harold Schechter, a leading authority on serial killers, and coauthor David Everitt offer a guided tour through the...Read More
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Huffington Post, March 8, 2013
...Click here to read an original op-ed from the TED speaker who inspired this post and watch the TEDTalk below. I was riveted by Professor Zimbardo's presentation, though ultimately somewhat frustrated by it. My dissatisfaction had largely to do with its...
Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star, December 1, 2012
...back of the book sort of gives it away. ‘PSYCHO USA: FAMOUS AMERICAN KILLERS YOU NEVER HEARD OF’ BY HAROLD SCHECHTER For every Ted Bundy and Jeffrey Dahmer who gets his name in a 70-point headline, there are apparently dozens of...
Wyckoff Patch, October 1, 2012
...My Poe Mysteries, by Author Harold Schechter Thu, Oct 4, 7:00 pm Double-Feature Poe Movie Night Fri, Oct 5, 7:00 pm Concert for Edgar Sun, Oct 7, 3:00 pm Wyckoff Readers Book Discussion...
Wyckoff Patch, September 22, 2012
...Other events here Teen Book Discussion Group Wed, Oct 3, 5:00 pm My Poe Mysteries, by Author Harold Schechter Thu, Oct 4, 7:00 pm Double-Feature Poe Movie Night Fri, Oct 5, 7:00 pm Concert for Edgar Sun, Oct 7, 3:00 pm Wyckoff Readers Book...
Wyckoff Patch, September 22, 2012
...Other events here Teen Book Discussion Group Wed, Oct 3, 5:00 pm My Poe Mysteries, by Author Harold Schechter Thu, Oct 4, 7:00 pm Double-Feature Poe Movie Night Fri, Oct 5, 7:00 pm Concert for Edgar Sun, Oct 7, 3:00 pm Wyckoff Readers Book...
Crime Magazine, September 11, 2012
...present with an emphasis on relatively modern cases. The top-of-the-line true crime authors represented include Carol Anne Davis, Harold Schechter, and Katherine Ramsland. Editor R. Barri Flowers also appears as the writer of an article. The result is a...
Austin American Statesman, August 25, 2012
...Do true-crime authors dream of electric chairs? In the past, Harold Schechter, the dean of American true-crime writers, focused on celebrity psychopaths like Albert Fish and Ed Gein, whose notorious sadistic deeds achieved near-mythic status. Even...
Broadway World, April 12, 2013
...and Christopher Malone, Chair of the Political Science Department at Pace University) on Thursday, April 18th. "Serial Violence" (Harold Schechter, true crime writer, Professor of American Literature at Queens College, expert in serial killers in...
WTOP Radio, April 11, 2013
...personality out of shape. It turned him into the kind of monstrous being that he was," says Harold Schechter, a professor of American Literature at Queens College, City University of New York. Schechter believes that Fish's time spent at the orphanage...
Huffington Post, March 8, 2013
...Click here to read an original op-ed from the TED speaker who inspired this post and watch the TEDTalk below. I was riveted by Professor Zimbardo's presentation, though ultimately somewhat frustrated by it. My dissatisfaction had largely to do with its...
TruTV.com, February 15, 2013
...certain types of women. Yet, one stood out and became herself a minor celebrity. During the trial, notes Harold Schechter in The Serial Killer Files, blonde Rosalind Bowers attended each morning, carrying a bouquet of sweet pea flowers. She had these...
TruTV.com, February 14, 2013
...certain types of women. Yet, one stood out and became herself a minor celebrity. During the trial, notes Harold Schechter in The Serial Killer Files, blonde Rosalind Bowers attended each morning, carrying a bouquet of sweet pea flowers. She had these...
Redlands Daily Facts, February 4, 2013
...Pieces: Poems That Talk to Other Poems" and "Killer Verse: Poems about Murder and Mayhem," co-edited with Harold Schechter. With poet Laure-Anne Bosselaar, Brown translated "The Plural of Happiness: Selected Poems of Herman de Coninck." Brown founded...
Redlands Daily Facts, January 31, 2013
...Pieces: Poems That Talk to Other Poems"; and "Killer Verse: Poems about Murder and Mayhem," co-edited with Harold Schechter. With poet Laure-Anne Bosselaar, Brown translated "The Plural of Happiness: Selected Poems of Herman de Coninck." Brown...
