This has been on my list for ages, and with the High Holidays fast approaching, I knew it was time to finally read it. This Is Real and You Are Completely Unprepared: The Days of Awe As a Journey of Transformation by Alan Lew (Little, Brown, and Company, 2003). Even if you think you know the full story, odds are there’s something in here you didn’t, and the two authors base their telling almost entirely on primary sources. Schechter and Powell tell the story of Ed Gein’s life: his abusive, controlling, overpowering, hyper-religious mother, who worked hard to create him exactly how she wanted him his inability to become a fully independent adult the town’s basic acceptance of the man they considered a little odd the shocking discovery of what he’d been doing in that house all those years after his mother had died. Gein’s house of horrors launched the birth of slasher films, an era that’s still ongoing. His crimes changed the face of American horror forever in the years before Gein’s crimes were discovered, scary movies in the US usually centered around creatures from other planets. Most of us are familiar with the Alfred Hitchcock movie Psycho the character Norman Bates and his crimes were based on Ed Gein, a native of Plainfield, Wisconsin. First up is the creepy true story, Did You Hear What Eddie Gein Done? by Harold Schechter and Eric Powell (Albatross Funnybooks, 2021).
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