Psychos
Subtitle: serial killers, depraved madmen, and the criminally insane
By: edited with commentary by John Skipp
Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers; Black Dog & Leventhal
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 601
ISBN-13: 9781579129149
Description: "A staggering thirty-eight-course banquet of literary mania and mayhem, served up by some of the most amazingly astute, deeply disturbing, immensely entertaining chroniclers of crazy ever to grace the printed page"--P. [4] of cover.
Table of contents: title: Classical scenes of farewell  -- Jim Shepard; title: Hop-frog  -- Edgar Allan Poe; title: Marmalade wine  -- Joan Aiken; title: Most dangerous game  -- Richard Connell; title: Small assassin  -- Ray Bradbury; title: Lucy comes to stay  -- Robert Bloch; title: Marla's eyes  -- Ed Kurtz; title: Liar  -- Laura Lee Bahr; title: Paperhanger  -- William Gay; title: Red dragon  -- Thomas Harris; title: Exit at Roledo Blade Boulevard  -- Jack Ketchum; title: Incident on and off a mountain road  -- Joe R. Lansdale; title: Murder for beginners  -- Mercedes M. Yardley; title: Jesse  -- Steve Rasnic Tem; title: In for a penny  -- Lawrence Block; title: Now hold still  -- David J. Schow; title: Feminine endings  -- Neil Gaiman; title: Going solo  -- Leah Mann; title: Death-in-life love song  -- Kevin L. Donihe; title: Ralph and Jerry  -- Leslianne Wilder; title: And what did you see in the world?  -- Norman Partridge; title: Life with father  -- Bentley Little; title: Shallow end of the pool  -- Adam-Troy Castro; title: Mommy pick me up at day care  -- John Gorumba; title: When the zoos close down, they'll come for us  -- Violet Lavoit; title: All through the house  -- Christopher Coake; title: Intruder  -- John Boden; title: Straycation  -- Scot Bradley and Peter Giglio; title: Life coach  -- Cody Goodfellow; title: Righteous  -- Weston Ochse; title: Meaning of life  -- Amelia Beamer; title: Damaged goods  -- Elizabeth Massie; title: Willow tests well  -- Nick Mamatas; title: Serenity now  -- Simon McCaffery; title: Mannerly man  -- Mehitobel Wilson; title: Sensible Violence  -- Brian Hodge; title: Bucky goes to church  -- Robert Devereaux; title: At eventide -- Kathe Koja.