The Silver Scream

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They say its hard getting into the moviestry getting out!

Fresh from the cutting room floor,The Silver Screamexposes the bloodiest behind-the-scenes details of the most gruesome, shocking, true-crime tragedy of our time. Part autopsy, part grisly directors cut, this is the only book with a comprehensive exploration inside the mind of Americas notorious, celluloid-obsessed, rock star turned cinema-copycat murderer, Spencer Charnas. Bayonet Awardwinning television reporter Roy Merkin is the only storyteller in possession of the journals scrawled by disgraced psychotherapist Dr. Ian Black.The Silver Screamreconstructs, with unflinching detail, how fiction became fact, art imitated death, and the most horrific movie murders by the likes of Jason, Leatherface, Freddy, Michael, and the rest became real. Merkin courageously slashes open the ghoulish mind and tortured nightmares of Spencer himself, probing deeply, with razor-sharp precision. Learn how the box office created so many oblong boxes. Understand why this rock n roll heartthrob chose to stop so many human hearts.

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Roy Merkin is the Bayonet Award-winning journalist America trusts. Fearless, hard-charging, and unrelenting, Merkin stops at nothing to dig through the dirt, grime, and mud until hes touched the deepest insides of a story. An expert in Criminology, Serial Killers, True Crime, and Podcasting, with a Bachelor of Arts in Disruption and Music Therapy, from the prestigious University of Farmington in Michigan, Merkins tenacious reporting on the Spencer Charnas case riveted viewers. He is the author of three other books, includingMake-Up and Murder: The Colorful Kisses of the Lipstick Killer;Ghosts of the Appalachian Hill People; andThe Devastation of Divorce.