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They say it’s hard getting into the movies…try getting out!The Silver Scream is a chilling mash-up of true crime, horror homage, and gonzo reportage, cutting to the bloody core of America’s most shocking pop-culture nightmare: Spencer Charnas, the rock star turned cinema-copycat killer.
Bayonet Award–winning journalist Roy Merkin reveals the grisly details through the lost journals of disgraced psychotherapist Dr. Ian Black, reconstructing the descent from fiction to fact as Charnas allegedly transformed classic slasher kills into real-life atrocities.
Part autopsy, part director’s “cut,”
The Silver Scream is a razor-sharp excavation of obsession, violence, and the blurred line between art and murder.
About the author
Roy Merkin is the Bayonet Award–winning journalist America trusts. Fearless, hard-charging, and unrelenting, Merkin stops at nothing to dig through the dirt, grime, and mud until he’s touched the deepest insides of a story. An expert in Criminology, Serial Killers, True Crime, and Podcasting, with a Bachelor of Arts in Disruption and Music Therapy, from the prestigious University of Farmington in Michigan, Merkin’s tenacious reporting on the Spencer Charnas case riveted viewers. He is the author of three other books, including
Make-Up and Murder: The Colorful Kisses of the Lipstick Killer;
Ghosts of the Appalachian Hill People; and
The Devastation of Divorce.
