Dead Skin Mask is about Ed Gein, an American murderer and body snatcher from the mid-1900s who took bodies from caskets for the sake of keeping their bones and skin. He also admitted to killing two women in the 1950s. Gein was the inspiration for several famous horror movies and horror game villains, including Norman Bates from Psycho, Leatherface from Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Buffalo Bill from The Silence of the Lambs, and Eddie Gluskin from the video game Outlast.