Harold Schechter

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  • Bibliography:
    18 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1983
  • Latest Book:
    June 2025
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Full Series List in Order

An Edgar Allan Poe Mystery

1 - Nevermore (Jan-1999)
2 - The Hum Bug (Nov-2001)
3 - The Mask of Red Death (Aug-2004)
4 - The Tell-Tale Corpse (Mar-2006)

Book List in Order: 18 titles

  • Discoveries: 50 Stories of the Quest

  • Outcry

    Investigating a series of brutal murders, reporter Paul Novak stumbles into the legend of Ed Gein, the "butcher of Plainfield, Wisconsin," and follows local lore to the ramshackle home of a bizarre young man. Original....

  • Deranged

    Reveals the true story behind the life and crimes of Albert Fish, a grandfatherly type who, in the 1930s, kidnapped and murdered countless children....

  • Deviant

    The truth behind the twisted crimes that inspired the films Psycho, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, and The Silence of the Lambs...From “America’s principal chronicler of its greatest psychopathic killers” (The Boston Book Review) comes the defin...

  • Nevermore

    An Edgar Allan Poe Mystery - 1

    Praised by Caleb Carr for his "brilliantly detailed and above all riveting" true-crime writing, Harold Schechter brings his expertise to a marvelous work of fiction. Superbly rendering the 1830s Baltimore of Edgar Allan Poe, Schechter taps into the d...

  • The Hum Bug

    An Edgar Allan Poe Mystery - 2

    Premier mystery author Harold Schechter revisits the chilling world of NEVERMORE in this novel of historical suspense, the second in his critically acclaimed series starring Edgar Allen Poe. It's the spring of 1844, and Edgar Allan Poe and his young ...

  • The Mask of Red Death

    An Edgar Allan Poe Mystery - 3

    Suspense, intrigue, atmosphere, and vivid historical detail combine into a thrilling ride through nineteenth-century New York City in The Mask of Red Death. Harold Schechter delivers both a wonderfully accurate portrait of a city in turmoil and an ir...

  • Drama City

  • The Tell-Tale Corpse

    An Edgar Allan Poe Mystery - 4

    Ever since childhood, Edgar Allan Poe has seen things that are not there, heard voices others cannot and felt utterly at home in the realm of human darkness. In Harold Schechter's intriguing, suspenseful, and delightfully wicked mystery series, Poe m...



  • Bestial

    FROM SOCIAL OUTCAST TO NECROPHILE AND MURDERER -- HIS APPALLING CRIMES STUNNED AN ERA.San 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 monst...

  • Depraved

    The heinous bloodlust of Dr. H.H. Holmes is notorious -- but only Harold Schechter's Depraved tells the complete story of the killer whose evil acts of torture and murder flourished within miles of the Chicago World's Fair. "Destined to be a true cri...

  • Fatal

    In an era that produced some of the most vicious female sociopaths in American history, Jane Toppan would become the most notorious of them all. AN ANGEL OF MERCY In 1891, Jane Toppan, a proper New England matron, embarked on a profession as a ...

  • Fiend

    The unputdownable true crime story about a killer who preyed on children but was not much older than his victims.When fourteen-year-old Jesse Pomeroy was arrested in 1874, Boston’s nightmarish reign of terror came to an end. Called the “Boston Bo...

  • Edgar Poe and the Concord Killer

    Since Edgar Allan Poe sees things that are not there, hears voices others cannot, and feels utterly at home in the realm of human darkness, he is the perfect detective to unravel cases of the murderous and macabre. In Edgar Poe and the Concord Kille...

  • Edgar Poe and the Frontier Fiend

    In this historical murder mystery Harold Schechter revisits the chilling world of Edgar Allan Poe and the Mystery Museum . During the sweltering summer of 1845, the savage murder of two girls shocks the citizens of Manhattan. Edgar Allen Poe, despit...

  • Edgar Poe and the Mystery Museum

    Harold Schechter revisits the chilling world of Nevermore in this historical murder mystery starring Edgar Allen Poe. It’s the spring of 1844 and Poe and his young wife, Sissy, have moved to Manhattan, the publishing center of America. When showm...

  • The Mad Sculptor

    2015 Edgar Award Nominee

    Beekman Place, once one of the most exclusive addresses in Manhattan, had a curious way of making it into the tabloids in the 1930s: “SKYSCRAPER SLAYER,” “BEAUTY SLAIN IN BATHTUB” read the headlines. On East...

  • Dr. Werthless: The Man Who Studied Murder (And Nearly Killed the Comics Industry)

    From the creative team behind the award-winning “Did You Hear What Eddie Gein Done?” comes an examination of one of the most polarizing figures in pop culture, Dr. Fredric Wertham.Reviled by comic book fans as a witch-hunting zealot who stirred u...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Harold Schechter has published 18 books.

The next book by Harold Schechter, Dr. Werthless: The Man Who Studied Murder (And Nearly Killed the Comics Industry), will be published in June 2025.

The first book by Harold Schechter, Discoveries: 50 Stories of the Quest, was published in January 1983.

Yes. Harold Schechter has 1 series.
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