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Mary Crane believes she has found shelter from the storm when she checks into the Bates Motel, but the knife-wielding owner, Norman Bates, soon rips her piece of mind to shreds and the nightmare begins.

The original Psycho novel by Robert Bloch was published in 1959 and became an instant hit, leading to the smash movie only a year later, which brought Norman Bates's terrifying story into the public consciousness, where it still remains (proven by the success of the tv series, Bates Motel). It took Bloch 23 years to write another Psycho novel, revealing that Norman had been in a mental institution the entire time. In that sequel, Norman quickly escapes...

The new Bates Motel is a tourist attraction, a re-creation of the infamous murder site, and the developers are already counting their profits. But there's a new exhibit that nobody expected: the bloody corpse of a teenage girl crumpled in the front hall, stabbed to death. Among the avalanche of press and publicity is reporter and true-crime book writer Amelia Haines, who is studying the original Psycho killings. To her, the new murders are a golden...

When being a famous actress was all she ever wanted to be, will a new friendship halt her career? Or will it get her the fame she's always desired in a way she never imagined possible? Julie Simon is oblivious. After making friends with who she thinks are the right people, the twenty-one-year-old aspiring actress doesn't see the true intent behind her new friends' actions. But the naive young woman, with the big dream, is stunned when she finds herself...

MPD-Psycho Volume 2 finds multiple personality detective Kazuhiko Amamiya on a new case-which will result in even more personalities emerging inside his confused, scattered mind! A wave of grisly, imaginative schoolgirl suicides has hit Tokyo. Investigating the scenes of these gruesome deaths, Amamiya and the colorful characters of the Isono Criminal Research Lab come across a new villain who knows about a key event from Amamiya's past. What does...

As the mysteries surrounding the devious Gakuso Society and the "eyeball murderers" continue to unravel, multiple personality detective Kazuhiko Amamiya seems to have returned from the grave, taking control of the Nishizono clone! Or is this just a ploy for young Tetora to negotiate his release and go off on another killing spree? The longest MPD-Psycho volume yet brings us over two hundred pages of colorful characters, bizarre deaths, and horrific...

"Dead Man's Galaxy Days" skips back in time to events that take place before MPD-Psycho Volume 1. Yosuke Kobayashi seems like a smart, driven Tokyo police officer, but he'll soon be transformed into a tragic "multiple personality detective." The ongoing mystery of the Gakuso gang and their murderous "barcode clones" unravels further, and MPD-Psycho's strange supporting cast is seen in a totally new light as a serial killer-the Tokyo Mirror Man-terrorizes...

After last volume's surprising betrayal and bloodbath, Amamiya-the multiple personality detective of the Isono Criminal Research Lab-faces new threats from the young Lucy 7 deviants! In the midst of new murderous messes, bumbling detective Sasayama finds himself in a criminal-profiler contest fueled by the Japanese media. An American profiler arrives to work on a decade-old serial-killer case at an elementary school, but the real group that he represents...

The uncensored, uncut manga event of the decade continues on its relentlessly bloody path, as MPD-Psycho Volume 7 shows that there's danger for our colorful cast on land, at sea, and in the air. Our conflicted "multiple personality detective," Kazuhiko Amamiya, controlled by his murderous Shinji Nishizono personality, finds himself on a hijacked airplane, along with innocent Miwa and her schoolmates. Meanwhile, their hunt for the missing Amamiya leads...

Multiple personality detective Yosuke Kobayashi seems to live on as a complex personality program inside the young, violent Tetora Nishizono-but the boy is now on a suicidal mission to destroy Japan's political leaders! This series will appeal to fans of nihilistic parables like Paranoia Agent, Se7en, and the works of Takashi Miike, as well as other intelligent, adult manga series like The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service and Monster.