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Harold Schechter

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Born: June 27 1948

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Aka Jon A. Harrald

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. A resident of New York City, Schechter is professor of American literature and popular culture at Queens College of 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 is married to poet Kimiko Hahn. He has two daughters from a previous marriage: the writer Lauren Oliver and professor of philosophy Elizabeth Schechter.

Harold Schechter

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Born: June 27 1948

Website: Go to Website

Aka Jon A. Harrald

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. A resident of New York City, Schechter is professor of American literature and popular culture at Queens College of 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 is married to poet Kimiko Hahn. He has two daughters from a previous marriage: the writer Lauren Oliver and professor of philosophy Elizabeth Schechter.

Books from Harold Schechter

Hell's Princess: The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butcher of Men

3.4/5 ( ratings)

Deviant: The Shocking True Story of Ed Gein, the Original "Psycho"

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Little Slaughterhouse on the Prairie

3.6/5 ( ratings)

The Serial Killer Files: The Who, What, Where, How, and Why of the World's Most Terrifying Murderers

Deranged: The Shocking True Story of America's Most Fiendish Killer

3.9/5 ( ratings)

The Pied Piper

3.6/5 ( ratings)

The A to Z Encyclopedia of Serial Killers

Depraved: The Definitive True Story of H.H. Holmes, Whose Grotesque Crimes Shattered Turn-Of-The-Century Chicago

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Panzram: A Journal of Murder

4.1/5 ( ratings)

Psycho USA: Famous American Killers You Never Heard Of

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Masters of True Crime: Chilling Stories of Murder and the Macabre

3.4/5 ( ratings)

Maniac: The Bath School Disaster and the Birth of the Modern Mass Killer

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Maniac: The Bath School Disaster and the Birth of the Modern Mass Killer

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Original Sin: The Visionary Art of Joe Coleman

4.4/5 ( ratings)

Buzz Words: Poems about Insects

4.1/5 ( ratings)

Fiend: The Shocking True Story Of Americas Youngest Serial Killer

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Discoveries: Fifty Stories of the Quest

4.1/5 ( ratings)

Serial Killer Quarterly Vol.1 No.3 "Unsolved in North America"

More Phobias: Phobias II

3.5/5 ( ratings)

Psycho USA: Famous American Killers You Never Heard Of

3.5/5 ( ratings)