True Stories That Inspired Horror Movies: Behind the Horror
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True Stories That Inspired Horror Movies: Behind the Horror

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Uncover the twisted tales that inspired the big screen’s greatest screams.Which case of demonic possession inspired The Exorcist? What horrifying front-page story generated the idea for A Nightmare on Elm Street? Which film was based on the infamous skin-wearing murderer Ed Gein?Unearth the terrifying and true tales behind some of the scariest Horror movies to ever haunt our screens, including the Enfield poltergeist case that was retold in The Conjuring 2 and the serial killers who inspired Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs.Behind the Horror dissects these and other bizarre tales to reveal haunting real-life stories of abduction, disappearance, murder, and exorcism.

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Weight 0.2298602 kg
Dimensions 1.905 × 13.0302 × 19.8374 cm
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Paperback
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Pages

288
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Year Published

2020-7-28
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Publication City/Country

USA
ISBN 10

1465492380
About The Author

Lee Mellor, Ph.D. is a criminologist, lecturer, musician, and the author of seven books on crime. He received his doctorate from Montreal's Concordia University after specializing in abnormal homicide and sex crimes. As the chair of the American Investigative Society of Cold Cases' academic committee, he has consulted with police on cold cases in Pennsylvania, Missouri, Ohio, and London, Ontario. He resides in Ontario, Canada.

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