Skinned

The Untold Shocking True Story of Serial Killer Ed Gein

De: Gary Covella

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

SKINNED: THE UNTOLD SHOCKING TRUE STORY OF SERIAL KILLER ED GEIN

The Monster Who Inspired a Thousand Nightmares

What if the most terrifying monsters of horror weren’t born in fiction—but lived in the quietest corners of America?

In the frozen heart of Wisconsin, beneath the façade of an ordinary farmhouse, Ed Gein concealed horrors that would forever scar the American psyche. From graveyards to kitchens, from whispers in town to headlines that screamed across the nation, his story is one of madness, obsession, and a darkness so profound it changed the very shape of horror itself.

Inside This Book, You Will Discover:

• The Isolated Childhood That Spawned a Recluse – Explore how Gein’s mother’s domination and small-town secrecy forged a man incapable of escaping her shadow.
• The Farmhouse of Death – Step inside the rooms where investigators uncovered chairs upholstered in human skin, masks crafted from faces, and the infamous “skin suit.”
• From Grave Robbing to Murder – Witness the moment when Gein’s compulsions escalated from the dead to the living, culminating in the brutal slaying of Bernice Worden.
• The Investigation That Shook the World – Follow the lawmen who documented every grotesque artifact in a crime scene unlike any other.
• The Mind of a Madman – Dive into psychiatric evaluations, Oedipal fixations, and debates about whether Gein was insane, evil, or something that defies classification.
• The Cultural Earthquake – See how Gein’s crimes birthed legends: Norman Bates in Psycho, Leatherface in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and Buffalo Bill in The Silence of the Lambs.
• The Man Versus the Myth – Separate fact from rumor: Was Gein a prolific killer, a cannibal, or something even stranger? Learn the truths hidden beneath decades of exaggeration.

Why This Story Still Terrifies

Unlike other notorious killers, Gein was not a drifter or a predator prowling distant cities. He was a neighbor. A handyman. A man you might have trusted with a small chore. His crimes reveal that horror does not live only in castles, shadows, or myths—it can live next door.

This book strips away decades of rumor to reveal the untold, unembellished truths of Ed Gein’s life, his crimes, and his legacy. Yet even stripped of exaggeration, his story remains more terrifying than anything fiction could invent.

For Fans Of:

• True crime readers fascinated by real cases darker than horror fiction
• Psychological thrillers exploring the mind of madness
• Cultural history fans who want to see how one man reshaped the horror genre

A Darkness That Never Fades

Skinned is not just the story of Ed Gein. It is the story of a community forever marked, of victims who deserve to be remembered, and of a nation forced to confront the chilling possibility that monsters do not only live in stories. They live among us.

Prepare yourself for the book that peels back the legend to reveal the skin-crawling reality.

Nothing

It repeated the same thing over and over and over again in every chapter no chapter was different but the way he spoke was very nice

So repetitive!

If the lines weren’t repeated so many times, the story could have been told in 20 minutes.

Repetitive

this book is just the same statements repeated with different adjectives. Virtual voice pronounces Ed Gein's name in different ways throughout. If you like true crime or just the story of Mr. Gein, I recommend finding a different book.

The story

The story is good because it is a true one and interesting in general. But, the AI narrator is off putting and a shame to real narrators.

The book- Repetitive points that stretch across the audible for way too long when the point was made paragraphs earlier.

Repetitive

The author repeats the same things over and over. Seems like they were just trying to make the book longer.

I wanted a factual account to compare the Netflix documentary.

I did not like the incredible amount of repetitive statements. I would get lost in the flow of information. I almost stopped listening all together.

The name

Trash waste of time read the reviews before you listen. All this book does is repeat itself over and over and over and over and over and over and over again and then again.

redundancy AI generated

If the redundancy were removed the book would be an hour long. Don waste your time.

Repetitive and redundant

Thought several times that I had hit rewind and was listening to the same parts over and over. Turns out it was just how it was told . It is almost as if it was several different versions of the story slightly different but too close to the same to be annoying. Listened as long as I could due to interest but got too annoying. Did not need to be as long as it was.

So repetitive,

Absolutely annoying it’s so repetitive. So much so that three separate times I thought I’d accidentally started the chapter over.