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Harold Schechter
Occupation	Author, professor
Education	B.A., Ph.D.
Alma mater	City College, CUNY, State University of New York
Genres	True crime, fiction
Subjects	Serial killers, popular culture
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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

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.
• "True Crime: An American Anthology," New York: Library of America, 2008.

He is married to Kimiko Hahn

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

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.

External links

• “Harold Schechter’s Dangerous Pastime, “ by Gary Shapiro, http://www.nysun.com/on-the-town/harold-schechters-dangerous-pastime/13904/
• “Murder by Mail:in gilded Age New York” book review by William Grimes, http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/24/books/24grim.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
• Poison Served His Purpose: a murder in New York gives us a landmark case and one gripping story,” book review by Nathan Ward, http://www.opinionjournal.com/la/?id=110010807
• Harold Schechter’s “Five Best Killer Stories: sensational murder trials…,” http://www.opinionjournal.com/weekend/fivebest/?id=110010848
• Review of Savage Pastimes: A Cultural History of Violent Entertainment at Reason magazine