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In 1950s Wisconsin, a quiet, lonely man, Ed Gein, descends into psychosis, becoming a grave robber and murderer whose gruesome acts of creating household items from human remains birthed the monsters of classic horror films like Psycho and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, revealing how society itself creates monsters

Author Aggie Wiggs has receded from public life since the death of her young son, unable to write, a ghost of her former self; but she finds an unlikely subject for a new book when the house next door is bought by Nile Jarvis.