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Informationen zum Autor John Skipp is a New York Times bestselling author and editor! whose 18 books have sold millions of copies in a dozen languages worldwide. His first anthology! Book of the Dead! laid the foundation in 1989 for modern zombie literature! bringing George Romero's vision of the dead next door to new levels of scope and intensity. He later edited three more zombie anthologies! including Mondo Zombie! which won the Bram Stoker Award for best anthology! and Zombies: Encounters with the Hungry Dead and Werewolves & Shapeshifters: Encounters with the Beast Within! both published by Black Dog & Leventhal. Skipp is recognized as splatterpunk's founding father and the elder statesman of the genre. His own legendary horror works include The Light at the End! the Scream! Jake's Wake and the Long Last Call. He lives in Los Angeles. Klappentext This collection of thirty-eight terrifying tales of serial killers at large! written by the great masters of the genre! plumbs the horrifying depths of a deranged mind and the forces of evil that compel a human being to murder! gruesomely and methodically! over and over again.From Hannibal Lecter (The Silence of the Lambs) to Patrick Bateman (American Psycho)! stories of serial killers and psychos loom large and menacing in our collective psyche. Tales of their grisly conquests have kept us cowering under the covers! but still turning the pages.Psychos is the first book to collect in a single volume the scariest and most well-crafted fictional works about these deranged killers. Some of the stories are classics! the best that the genre has to offer! by renowned writers such as Neil Gaiman! Amelia Beamer! Robert Bloch! and Thomas Harris. Other selections are from the latest and most promising crop of new authors.John Skipp! who is also the editor of Zombies! Demons and Werewolves and Shapeshifters! provides fascinating insight! through two nonfiction essays! into our insatiable obsession with serial killers and how these madmen are portrayed in popular culture. Resources at the end of the book includes lists of the genre's best long-form fiction! movies! websites! and writers. Zusammenfassung This collection of thirty-eight terrifying tales of serial killers at large! written by the great masters of the genre! plumbs the horrifying depths of a deranged mind and the forces of evil that compel a human being to murder! gruesomely and methodically! over and over again.From Hannibal Lecter (The Silence of the Lambs) to Patrick Bateman (American Psycho)! stories of serial killers and psychos loom large and menacing in our collective psyche. Tales of their grisly conquests have kept us cowering under the covers! but still turning the pages.Psychos is the first book to collect in a single volume the scariest and most well-crafted fictional works about these deranged killers. Some of the stories are classics! the best that the genre has to offer! by renowned writers such as Neil Gaiman! Amelia Beamer! Robert Bloch! and Thomas Harris. Other selections are from the latest and most promising crop of new authors.John Skipp! who is also the editor of Zombies! Demons and Werewolves and Shapeshifters! provides fascinating insight! through two nonfiction essays! into our insatiable obsession with serial killers and how these madmen are portrayed in popular culture. Resources at the end of the book includes lists of the genre's best long-form fiction! movies! websites! and writers. Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of Contents Introduction: Our Brain: The Monster of Choice! When There's No One Else Left to Blame by John Skipp Classical Scenes of Farewell by Jim Shepard Hop-Frog by Edgar Allan Poe Marmalade Wine by Joan Aiken The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell The Small Assassin by Ray Bradbury Lucy Comes to Stay by Robert Bloch
