Haven't the stories about Gilles de Rais been refuted by
recent historians? I remember reading that it's been said
that the stories were invented because some people wanted him
to look bad. (And he certainly did, didn't he?)
Robert Bloch is a noir writer, in my mind, and he even makes
fun of the shadowy effects of many noir films in THE SCARF,
which some think is better than PSYCHO. Bloch wrote about Ed
Gein in an intro in a book whose title I forget, but it was
reprinted in MURDER PLUS, a late eighties anthology of true
crime writing.
I think Fabianne means CONCERTO FOR A DEAD BEAT. That's also
a noirish crime novel, albeit not one of Bloch's best.
Juri
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