Netflix is set to release the third installment of Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan’s chilling Monster anthology, “Monster: The Ed Gein Story,” following the success of Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story (2022) and Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story (2024).

Premiering on October 3, the new season stars Charlie Hunnam as the infamous Ed Gein — a seemingly quiet Wisconsin farmer who became one of America’s most disturbing real-life killers. Known by names such as the “Butcher of Plainfield” and the “Plainfield Ghoul,” Gein confessed to murdering two women, Bernice Worden and Mary Hogan, while also exhuming graves to collect human remains.

When police searched his remote Plainfield home in 1957, they uncovered horrors beyond imagination: Worden’s mutilated body and numerous household objects made from body parts. Gein later told investigators that his crimes stemmed from an obsession with recreating his deceased mother, Augusta Gein, portrayed by Laurie Metcalf in the series.

Declared legally insane, Ed Gein spent the remainder of his life in a psychiatric hospital — but his macabre legacy went on to inspire countless horror films, from Psycho to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.