Did You Hear What Eddie Gein Done?

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This one will get under your skin and leave you thinking about what Ed Gein did and how he got there. Unfortunately, there are some people in whom the socialization process breaks down and who act out their darkest , most sadistic fantasies. One of the greats in the field of true-crime literature, Harold Schechter (Deviant, The Serial Killer Files, Hell's Princess), teams with five-time Eisner Award-winning graphic novelist Eric Powell (The Goon, Big Man Plans, Hillbilly) to bring you the tale of one of the most notoriously deranged murderers in American history, Ed Gein. A still image, drawn by hand, innately infers the truth as he sees it as filtered through his very being. In terms of how Schechter tackles the story of Ed Gein, from childhood to murders, I thought that he did a pretty good, comprehensive job.

If you’re at all interested in true crime, dark psychological stories, or even pulp horror, you will find something to love here—and then some. The bulk of his victims were already dead and buried before he performed his mutilations on their bodies.Evil is here taken as an abstract element that is linked to hurting and harming people without a rational justification. so it’s not surprising that he could get away with this, even in a small community like Plainfield, Wisconsin. It sure doesn’t excuse what he did; plenty of people are abused and don’t turn into the kind of guy who makes a belt out of women’s nipples.

The artwork in this book is chilling and amazingly well-done, bringing a time, place, and community to life. Even if his memory isn’t 100% accurate, we can see that his brother could have had a better effect on him had he not died (or, perhaps, Gein murdered him, although the evidence is inconclusive) when Gein was 37.Ed, esattamente come Dhamer, diventa poi, incredibilmente, una leggenda nera, a proposito della quale tutti vogliono dire la loro e sapere qualche dettaglio. Yet, once we reach the end of the novel, especially page 206, the only thing that’s left for us is disgust.