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"Cut off from all social contacts, completely separated from the life of the community, condemned to a crushing poverty in a remote and desolate region with two tormented and inimical parents, Eddie - never emotionally strong to begin with - was retreating farther and farther into a private world of fantasy. The Gein farm may not have been productive, but it was proving to be a fertile breeding ground for madness." Chapter Four, Page 22

"Like the parents who refuse to face the most disturbing signs of maladjustment in a favorite child, small-town dwellers will often manage to dismiss, explain away, or turn a blind eye to the extreme peculiarities of their neighbors." Chapter 6, Page 35

"All of this perhaps helps to explain how a middle-aged bachelor could live in a tightly knit community of over six hundred people, all of whom knew him by name, and, for more than a decade, get away with murder - and worse." Chapter 6, Page 36

"As he recalled years later, Eddie 'rolled his eyes and wiggled his nose like a dog sniffing a skunk.' Then he smiled and said, 'She's not missing. She's down at the house now.'" Chapter 9, Page 53

"They had no way of knowing, of course, that the next time they set eyes on their quiet little neighbor, his name would be known throughout the nation - indeed around the world. Or that they themselves were about to gain widespread and highly unwelcome celebrity as the last people to break bread with America's most notorious maniac." Chapter 12, Page 74

"But, to a man, the sight of Mrs. Worden's decapitated, and disemboweled body stunned them into silence. None of them had ever set eyes on anything so appalling." Chapter 14, Page 77

"For the dozens of local lawmen involved, the investigation of Bernice Worden's murder had turned into a macabre form of excavation. Sifting through the rubble of Gein's house was like conducting an archeological dig in hell." Chapter 14, Page 80

"Originally, the offer explained, the police believed there was a total of ten or eleven women involved - 'depending on whether Mrs. Worden's head was counted.' The sun now stood at fifteen, a figure based on the recovery of ten masks, Mrs. Worden's severed head, and four 'extra noses.'" Chapter 20, Page 106

"In the meantime, Kileen was under growing pressure from the Plainfield citizenry to determine the truth of Gein's assertion. It was becoming increasingly obvious that the townsfolk would never be able to rest without knowing whether their loved one had, in fact, been ravaged in their graves." Chapter 27, Page 150

"But however much they might have agreed with such sentiments in principle, the townsfolk of Plainfield were not about to forgive and forget." Chapter 30, Page 165

"He also confessed to another motive for his graveyard expeditions. Eddie had first been impelled to the Plainfield cemetery by a conviction that he possessed the power to raise the dead." Chapter 32, Page 173

"I believe if we'd have stayed in La Crosse, this thing would never have happened. I believe it was just my bad luck to go to a locality where the people were just not as friendly as they should have been." Chapter 43, Page 230

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