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Harold Schechter
(b.1948)Harold Schechter is a professor of American Literature and culture at Queens College, the City University of New York. Among his nonfiction works are the historical true-crime classics Fatal, Fiend,Deviant, Deranged, and Depraved. He also authors a critically acclaimed mystery series featuring Edgar Allan Poe, which includes The Hum Bug and Nevermore and The Mask of Red Death Schechter's newest study of popular culture, Savage Pastimes: A Cultural History of Violent Entertainment is just out from St. Martin's Press. He lives in New York City.
New and upcoming books
Series
Edgar Allan Poe
Nevermore (1999)
The Hum Bug (2001)
aka Edgar Poe and the Mystery Museum
The Mask of Red Death (2004)
aka Edgar Allan Poe and the Frontier Fiend
The Tell-Tale Corpse (2006)
aka Edgar Allan Poe and the Concord Killer
Nevermore (1999)
The Hum Bug (2001)
aka Edgar Poe and the Mystery Museum
The Mask of Red Death (2004)
aka Edgar Allan Poe and the Frontier Fiend
The Tell-Tale Corpse (2006)
aka Edgar Allan Poe and the Concord Killer
Bloodlands Collection
Little Slaughterhouse on the Prairie (2018)
Panic (2018)
Rampage (2018)
The Brick Slayer (2018)
The Pied Piper (2018)
The Pirate (2018)
Little Slaughterhouse on the Prairie (2018)
Panic (2018)
Rampage (2018)
The Brick Slayer (2018)
The Pied Piper (2018)
The Pirate (2018)
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Harold Schechter recommends
The Last Nightingale (2007)
(Nightingale Detective, book 1)
Anthony Flacco
"From its opening pages - when we are plunged headlong into the terrifying chaos of the great San Francisco earthquake of 1906 - to its riveting climax, The Last Nightingale offers an abundance of those page-turning pleasures readers seek in historical thrillers."
Compulsion (1956)
Meyer Levin
"Though Truman Capote claimed to have invented a new literary genre with In Cold Blood—a form he called the ‘nonfiction novel’—that distinction truly belongs to Meyer Levin. For nearly a century now, the Leopold and Loeb case has maintained a firm hold on the popular imagination, generating histories, movies, stage dramas, even musicals and comic books. Of this seemingly endless stream of retellings, Levin’s lightly fictionalized masterpiece—so true to reality that Leopold himself famously sued the author—remains the most gripping, psychologically penetrating, and purely readable account of one of America’s most sensational crimes."
Books containing stories by Harold Schechter
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