Harold Schechter
Harold Schechter is a true crime writer who specializes in serial killers. He attended the State University of New York in Buffalo, where he obtained a Ph.D. He is professor of American literature and popular culture at Queens College of the City University of New York
He is married to poet Kimiko Hahn.
True crime
- Depraved: The Shocking True Story of America's First Serial Killer, the story of Chicago serial murderer Herman Mudgett, alias Dr. H. H. Holmes
- Deranged: The Shocking True Story of America's Most Fiendish Killer!, the story of New York serial murderer Albert Fish
- Fiend: The Shocking True Story of America's Youngest Serial Killer, the story of Jesse Pomeroy, child murderer.
- Bestial: The Savage Trail of a True American Monster, serial murderer Earle Leonard Nelson, who killed in Canada and the United States.
- Deviant: The Shocking True Story of the Original "Psycho", the story of Ed Gein, the killer who inspired Psycho, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and The Silence of the Lambs
- Fatal : The Poisonous Life of a Female Serial Killer, the story of 19th century murderess Jane Toppan
- A to Z Encyclopedia of Serial Killers (co-written with David Everitt)
- The Serial Killer Files : The Who, What, Where, How, and Why of the World's Most Terrifying Murderers
- Panzram: A Journal of Murder (Introduction)
- "The Devil’s Gentleman: Privilege, Poison, and the Trial that Ushered in the Twentieth Century," New York: Random House/Ballantine Books, 2007.
- Killer Colt: Murder, Disgrace, and the Making of an American Legend(2010), the story of 19th century murderer John C. Colt, brother of arms maker Samuel Colt, and the trial
Mystery
- Nevermore - Edgar Allan Poe joins Davy Crockett to solve a series of shocking murders in Baltimore in 1835.
- The Hum Bug (2001) - Poe teams with Showman PT Barnum to solve a series of murders in New York.
- Mask of the Red Death (2004) - Poe joins forces with Kit Carson to track down a liver-eating murderer. Like the previous book, this one also takes place in New York.
- The Tell-Tale Corpse - Poe groups with author Louisa May Alcott to put down yet another murderer. This time, he takes his mystery to Massachusetts.
- Outcry - A Novel based on the fictional son of Ed Gein, and his path of destruction
Popular culture
- The Manly Movie Guide
- Savage Pastimes: A Cultural History of Violent Entertainment
- Real to Reel
- Patterns in Popular Culture: A SourceBook for Writers
- Film Tricks: Special Effects in the Movies
- The Manly Handbook
- Kidvid: A Parents' Guide to Children's Videos
- American Voices: A Thematic/Rhetorical Reader
- Start Collecting Comic Books
- "The Whole Death Catalog: A Lively Guide to the Bitter End"
Academic works
- Discoveries: Fifty Stories of the Quest
- Bosom Serpent: Folklore and Popular Art
- New Gods: Psyche and Symbol in Popular Art
- Original Sin: The Visionary Art of Joe Coleman
- "Conversation Pieces: Poems that Talk to Other Poems," editor with Kurt Brown, New York: Knopf/Everyman, 2007.
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