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Did You Hear What Eddie Gein Done?

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Initially there was Robert Bloch’s bestselling novel Psycho followed by Alfred Hitchcock’s iconic movie adaptation which introduced the world to Norman Bates, and then later emerged other incarnations like Leatherface in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Buffalo Bill in The Silence of the Lambs. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Then, they cover Gein's childhood under the thumb of his puritanical, misogynistic, and violently oppressive mother; the investigation into his crimes; and the trial that led to his lifelong incarceration. The second thing I think will remain burned into my brain like a Junji Ito 2-page spread is the author’s theory on Gein’s psychosis, manifested in Powell’s art.

Is our idea of progress and civilization, something we derive from ancient Greece (with its us-civilized and them-uncivilized dichotomy), a blatant lie we tell ourselves? Even if Gein’s recollections aren’t quite what happened (memory is a tricky thing, after all), we know from other, more well documented serial killers that they’re made, not born, and it’s hard not to feel sympathy for Gein as his mother destroys him. You can’t make it so that the crimes of Ed Gein never happened, and you can’t make the future any more predictable. Overall - while this can be considered a quick look at case and the complex mind that Ed Gein was - it's definitely worth the time, if not for the story that many already know - then for the artwork that is so hauntingly perfect, reader is nearly transported through time to witness the events themselves.Unchecked for a dozen years, Gein committed at least two murders and uncounted grave robbings, in which he then used the women’s skins to make himself a skin suit, facemasks, and other ghastly creations.

Hitchcock is not sitting across from a fellow director, but rather a fictional press junket where journalists are asking him to defend the existence of Psycho.

Perhaps out of reverence for the victims and the immensity of sadness surrounding the subject matter, the art in this book is some of Powell’s most considered and careful work, and the result is a masterpiece. The first half of the book is a dramatization of Ed Gein's childhood and early adulthood taking us to just months before he would begin his grave robberies and murders.

But the readers spoke and the Goon quickly became an indy hit and picked up a diehard cult following. As I mentioned above, Gein’s life was one of horrendous abuse, from the physical the the emotional to the religious, as his mother was tormenting and supremely controlling, his father was an at times violent alcoholic, and due to his suppressed and weird nature, his peers ostracized him… which then sent him more under the wing of his mother Augusta… who was very unwell.Some people have a touch of caricature to them, such as Gein’s droopy eye and in later pictures, the townspeople sharing their recollections seem exaggerated. So many stories have been based on Gein and they’re each disturbing in their own right but you can’t get more disturbed than the original. 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. The bulk of his victims were already dead and buried before he performed his mutilations on their bodies. That said, there is one scene that isn’t a confirmed fact: Ed’s childhood sexual assault at the hands of older boys, which was only ever a rumour, though he seemed to have been bullied throughout his life which could have fed into other behaviours.

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