{"product_id":"bestial-the-savage-trail-of-a-true-american-monster-9780671732189","title":"Bestial: The Savage Trail of a True American Monster","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Harold Schechter\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Gallery Books\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Gallery Books\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Murder - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the Back Cover\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFROM SOCIAL OUTCAST TO NECROPHILE AND MURDERER -- HIS APPALLING CRIMES STUNNED AN ERA\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSan Francisco, the 1920s. In an age when nightmares were relegated to the fiction of Edgar Allan Poe and distant tales of the Whitechapel murders, a real-life monster terrorized America. His acts of butchery have proved him one of history's fiercest madmen.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs an infant, Earle Leonard Nelson possessed the power to unsettle his elders. As a child he was unnaturally obsessed with the Bible; before he reached puberty, he had an insatiable, aberrant sex drive. By his teens, even Earle's own family had reason to fear him. But no one in the bone-chilling winter of 1926 could have predicted that his degeneracy would erupt in a sixteen-month frenzy of savage rape, barbaric murder, and unimaginable defilement -- deeds that would become the hallmarks of one of the most notorious fiends of the twentieth century, whose blood-lust would not be equaled until the likes of Henry Lee Lucas, John Wayne Gacy, and Jeffrey Dahmer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on the \"gruesome, awesome, compelling reporting\" (Ann Rule) that is his trademark, Harold Schechter takes a dark journey into the mind of an unrepentant sadist -- and brilliantly lays bare the myth of innocence that shrouded a bygone era.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gallery Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45409263485079,"sku":"9780671732189","price":1663.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780671732189.webp?v=1767311153","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/bestial-the-savage-trail-of-a-true-american-monster-9780671732189","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}