Harold Schechter News

Schechter's Next Book: Psycho USA

Coming out Summer 2012.

Wall Street Journal Review of "Killer Verse"

Check out this excellent review of Schechter's Killer Verse in the Wall Street Journal.

Killer Verse to come out Sept 6, 2011

Edited with Kurt Brown and published by Everyman Press, Killer Verse is a spine-tingling collection of terrifically creepy poems about the deadly art of murder.

The villains and victims who populate these pages range from Cain and Abel and Bluebeard and his wives to Lizzie Borden,...

NEVERMORE released as an ebook

June 29, 2010 -- Simon and Schuster announces that Schechter's Edgar Allan Poe novel, Nevermore is now available as an ebook on Their website.

Killer Colt recommended on The Daily Beast

"True crime historian and chronicler of serial murders Harold Schechter examines the dark backstory behind the development of one of America's most famous weapons, the Colt revolver. While the firearm's inventor, Samuel Colt, seemed to live a charmed life, his brother John had no such luck and...


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