The Skin Collector
- Belle
- Oct 4
- 2 min read
Inside Ed Gein’s House of Horrors - Audio Book
In the heart of Wisconsin, a handyman’s farmhouse became a nightmare
made flesh.
Ed Gein (full name: Edward Theodore Gein) was an American murderer and body snatcher whose crimes in the 1950s shocked the nation and heavily influenced horror fiction and film.
In the quiet, rural town of Plainfield, Wisconsin, Ed Gein lived in near-total isolation on his family’s decrepit farm. To neighbors, he was just the odd, soft-spoken handyman. But inside his farmhouse, a nightmare was taking shape.
After his domineering mother died, Gein was left alone with her voice echoing in his mind. He began haunting the local graveyards at night, lantern in hand, digging up freshly buried women. He carefully cut away their skin and bones, bringing them back to his farmhouse where he fashioned grotesque trophies: bowls made from skulls, lampshades stitched from human flesh, a belt decorated with nipples, and a “woman suit” he could wear—an attempt to bring his mother back, or become her himself.
The farmhouse was a chamber of horrors. Police described the stench as overwhelming when they entered in November 1957, investigating the disappearance of Bernice Worden. What they found was beyond comprehension: her body strung up in the shed, gutted like a deer. Inside, every corner held something monstrous—masks made of human faces, chairs upholstered with skin, organs stored in jars.
Gein admitted to two murders, but it was his grave-robbing and grotesque handiwork that captured the world’s morbid imagination. He was the quiet man who turned his loneliness and obsession into something inhuman—something that blurred the line between life and death.
Gein’s quiet little farmhouse had become a mausoleum, a twisted museum of death. And from that night on, the line between horror fiction and reality would never be the same.
He spent the rest of his life locked away, dying in 1984, but his crimes never faded. They crawled into the American psyche, spawning the killers of Psycho, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, and Silence of the Lambs.
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