“Monsters: The Ed Gein Story,” the third season of Ryan Murphy’s serial killer Netflix anthology series is here, and it offers the show’s most unsettling and riveting cast of characters to date.
Across eight episodes that debut on Oct. 3, the series explores the origins, crimes and aftermath of Ed Gein, a serial killer who, during the 1950s, killed at least two women and exhumed several bodies for heinous purposes. Raised by an evangelical mother that he obsessed over and having desecrated human cadavers to make a skin suit, Gein and his story are rife with disturbing, unprecedented psychological drama.
Gein redefined how Americans thought of serial killers and psychopaths, and his case inspired movies such as “Psycho,” “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” and “Silence of the Lambs.” Now, Ryan