Harold Schechter

Harold Schechter is an American true crime writer who specializes in serial killers, with books such as Fatal, Fiend, Bestial, and Depraved. He has also written historical novels featuring Edgar Allan Poe, including Nevermore. Schechter is Professor Emeritus at Queens College, City University of New York, where he taught American literature and myth criticism for forty-two years, and his essays have appeared in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.