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Reviled and feared, the crimes committed by serial killers expose a rarely acknowledged darkness inherent in some human beings.

Their heinous acts, seemingly devoid of the morals or compassion essential to a functioning society, are too disturbing for most people to comprehend. Despite this, books, films, and TV shows based on the crimes of serial killers remain hugely popular.

This can be traced back to the sensationalised crime stories in the Penny Dreadfuls of Victorian Britain and continues today with the modern appetite for true crime, perhaps most starkly epitomised by the hit Netflix series MONSTER: The Ed Gein Story .

The third season of the biographical crime drama anthology is a graphic dramatisation of Gein's crimes . Yet, it exposes the notoriety and i

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