The Human Beast

PSYCHO by Robert Bloch

WARNING!

This book is not to be read at night
Especially if you are alone. Especially not at night

Psycho is not for queasy stomachs. Every chapter has the smashing impact of a pile-driver. The climax, sheer unadulterated terror, shocks the reader like a gruesome nightmare

Originally published in Great Britain by Robert Hale Limited.

Robert Hale Edition published 1960
Corgi Edition published 1962

© Robert Bloch 1959

THE BEAST OF JERSEY
by his wife Joan Paisnel

The incredible story of the man who terrorised the island for eleven years

Edward Paisnel, the son of wealthy Jersey landowners, was a Jekyll and Hyde figure who terrorised the island for eleven years, and in 1971 he was convicted of thirteen sex offences against young children.

Paisnel was obsessed with the powers of evil. In his Hyde moments he wore a hideous rubber mask and nail-studded bracelets. And at home he had a secret room with the ritual tools of Black Magic.

But, from his second wife, Joan Paisnel, we learn of the Jekyll side of his character. To her, he was a kind generous man who loved small children.

Yet for his offences against children he was sentenced to thirty years.

First published in Great Britain in 1972 by Robert Hale & Co
© Max Caulfield and European Press Enterprises 1972
First NEL Paperback Edition 1973
Sixth impression 1987

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