If I were reading House of Horrors for the first time, I’d find it almost impossible to believe – except I know it really happened.
Did you ever wonder where Thomas Harris got the idea for the character Buffalo Bill in Silence of the Lambs?
Well, he got the idea from real-life killer Gary Heidnik and his House of Horrors in North Philadelphia.
True Detective magazine published my original story back in January 1993.
I recently revised it as an eBook.
