Did You Hear What Eddie Gein Done?

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Did You Hear What Eddie Gein Done?

Did You Hear What Eddie Gein Done?

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The art is perfectly suited to Schechter’s telling of the tale, and Powell’s real achievement here is in how he delivers the visual gut punches and portrays the inner workings of insanity.

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. They all knew the name of the guy who made the headstone for Gein's grave which they assume was since stolen. could easily have been exploitative, but is much more respectful, especially in its depiction of Gein's victims and those left wondering what made this man do what he did. Also certain characters here - the journalist and the university professor - are composite characters; the journalist is a composite of several reporters who covered the story, and the professor is a mouthpiece for Schechter/Powell’s theory on Gein’s motivations that he acted as part of his warped religion where his mother was god. They do a good job with Gein himself – he’s clearly a monster, but he’s also very non-threatening, and it does seem as if he was only dangerous to elderly women who reminded him of his mother, as kids reported they hung out in Gein’s house with all the various human “trophies” in it and didn’t feel unsafe (although a few kids reported seeing the masks he made from skin, but they assumed they were rubber because why wouldn’t you?You can present facts, photos, first-hand accounts, and primary documents, but the instant you start speculating, you are a storyteller.

Among his nonfiction works are the historical true-crime classics Fatal, Fiend, Deviant, Deranged, and Depraved.I don’t think of Gein as monster, certainly not in comparison to sadistic lust-murderers like Albert Fish, John Wayne Gacy, or Ted Bundy. Raised by a tyrannical, religious zealot and likely insane mother Augusta and drunken, violent father George, Schechter/Powell provide glimpses of scenes Ed would probably have seen in his youth which might explain his later behaviour, like seeing his mother butchering a pig and his father tanning leather. Eric has been working in collaboration with acclaimed director David Fincher, Tim Miller, and Blur Studios to bring the Goon to life on the big screen as an animated feature film. Powell is such a good artist, as he uses those soft pencils and terrific shading to create a world that feels like the past, a bit idyllic, even as we know the horror is coming.

As to the second reason for my reading the book, that part of it was unforgettable, in that four adults I stayed with had very specific memories of various events relating to Gein, who murdered two women close to the age of his mother, and "grave-robbed" the bodies of several other women for his various purposes. And, with those events being truly horrific, I was interested to see how this subject matter would be handled in this genre.What does the fact that he denies killing people mean, even when there is so much evidence pointing to his being obviously guilty?

They present the circumstances of his birth, his upbringing, his traumas, his social standing in his small town in a way so compelling that it will test your boundary between sympathy and empathy. I thought it would be neat to check out, because who doesn’t like a deep dive into the mind of a serial killer?Can we say, then, that evil is a universal feature we are born with, and that there isn’t much we can do to stop it, unless we work as a society to find the deranged elements and confine them in a place where they cannot harm anybody?



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