{"product_id":"9781603763172","title":"Psychos: Serial Killers, Depraved Madmen, and the Criminally Insane","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom Hannibal Lecter (\u003ci\u003eThe Silence of the Lambs\u003c\/i\u003e) to Patrick Bateman (\u003ci\u003eAmerican Psycho\u003c\/i\u003e), 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePsychos\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003cb\u003eNeil Gaiman\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eAmelia Beamer\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eRobert Bloch\u003c\/b\u003e, and \u003cb\u003eThomas Harris\u003c\/b\u003e. Other selections are from the latest and most promising crop of new authors.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn Skipp, who is also the editor of \u003ci\u003eZombies\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDemons\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWerewolves and Shapeshifters\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Running Press Book Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47138583970032,"sku":"9781603763172","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781603763172_p0.jpg?v=1769902364","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781603763172","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}