#serial killer fiction

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Have you read...

note: If you did not finish but feel you read enough to form an opinion, you may choose a ‘Yes’ option instead of 'Partly' (e.g., Yes, I didn’t like it). Interpret "neutral or complicated" however you like, I intended this category to be a broad option between like and dislike.

To serial slayer Andrew Compton, murder is an art, the most intimate art. After feigning his own death to escape from prison, Compton makes his way to the United States with the sole ambition of bringing his "art" to new heights. Tortured by his own perverse desires, and drawn to possess and destroy young boys, Compton inadvertently joins forces with Jay Byrne, a dissolute playboy who has pushed his "art" to limits even Compton hadn't previously imagined. Together, Compton and Byrne set their sights on an exquisite young Vietnamese-American runaway, Tran, whom they deem to be the perfect victim. Swiftly moving from the grimy streets of London's Piccadilly Circus to the decadence of the New Orleans French Quarter, and punctuated by rants from radio talk show host Lush Rimbaud, a.k.a. Luke Ransom, Tran's ex-lover, who is dying of AIDS and who intends to wreak ultimate havoc before leaving this world, Exquisite Corpse unfolds into a labyrinth of murder and love. Ultimately all four characters converge on a singular bloody night after which their lives will be irrevocably changed — or terminated. Poppy Z. Brite dissects the landscape of torture and invites us into the mind of a killer. Exquisite Corpse confirms Brite as a writer who defies categorization. It is a novel for those who dare trespass where the sacred and profane become one.

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#Exquisite Corpse #Poppy Z. Brite #horror books #horror #bookblr #books #queer horror #gay horror #splatterpunk #serial killer fiction #hannibalcore #queer books #queer lit #hannibal #cannibalism #horrorbookpoll

[admiralgiggles]

“We were two wolves in a flock of sheep.”

If you’re looking for something fun and lighthearted, this isn’t the book for you. It’s gory, gross, and hard to put down once you’ve cracked it open. The ending offers a bit of a twist that kind of made me a little mad. I suppose it’s not realistic to give a serial killer a happy ending. 😂

There was a book referenced quite a bit in this story (Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille), so naturally I had to snag a copy and see what Maeve was on about. More on that eventually.

#photo of the day #Maeve Fly #CJ Leede #horror fiction #serial killer fiction #book review #book recommendations #bookworm #books of tumblr #bookish #bookzilla #books and reading #book quotes #reading is fundamental #winter 2024

[fallen-feather1992]

I TOLD YOU I'M NOT DEAD

Chapter four of

Professor Layton and the Second Ripper

has just been posted!

For those of you who need a refresher, here is the summary!

London is under attack; a vile serial killer prowls the streets of the Whitechapel district. Each victim is a woman of about 30-years-old, with dark hair. Scotland Yard is stumped, so they call on Professor Hershel Layton to assist in this puzzling case. Unfortunately, progress is slow... until they get a lead in the form of a seven-year-old boy.

#professor layton #alfendi layton #flora reinhold #hershel layton #fanfiction #ao3 #the second ripper #serial killer fiction #back from hiatus!

[screamingeyepress]

It's Serial Killer Month here at ScreamingEyePress.com! That means some great serial killer stories and some fun voting with the real McCoy. Get started with a doozy from Mark Slade.

"As Detective Gladwell navigates through the unsettling confession of Ramsey Cain, who claims to be the notorious Arrowhead Killer, a sinister truth emerges that challenges everything she thought she knew about the case." https://www.screamingeyepress.com/pubs/truth-by-mark-slade/

#horror #pulp #screaming eye press #stories #horror stories #short story #serial killer #serial killer stories #serial killer fiction #short fiction

[authorjacobfloyd]

SUCCULENT PREY by Wrath James White

When I began my adventure into the world of independent horror houses, Istumbled across an author by the name of Wrath James White. Immediately, I wasinterested to find out about his work. I had read that his work was violent,gory, sexual, and terrifying–but the word I had seen most used to describeWhite’s writing was “extreme.”I read some interviews with him and was intrigued by his outlook on…

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#book #book reviews #bookreview #cannibal fiction #cannibalism #Deadite Press #extremefiction #horror #indie horror #indiebooks #Leisure Books #novelreviews #novels #reviews #serial killer #serial killer fiction #Succulent Prey #Wrath James White

[its-suanneschafer-author]

BOOK REVIEW: Downfall by Mark Rubinstein

Downfall is a fast-paced novel set in New York City in the 1980s. It is something of a mashup of a police procedural and character-driven fiction and includes the points of view of the two detectives, a physician, Richard Shepard, whose father is murdered, and the murderer himself. Two murders occur close together and seem unrelated except that one of the men killed is Richard’s Doppelgänger.…

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#Downfall #Mark Rubinstein #medical fiction #police procedurals #Serial Killer Fiction

[beebeedibapbeediboop]

It's almost Halloween! 🎃

Michael has the most beautiful pumpkin patch around...'wonder why

#artists on tumblr #illustration #art #fanart #halloween #michael myers #halloween movie #im obsessed OBSESSED with him....and ive been playing dbd non stop #I think I'm going to make a series of fictional serial killers #and make some prints of them

[kindfrog]

depths of the bayou

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close up of Alastor-

as well as the line art- while I think it looks better without it, I worked too hard on it for it to not be seen lol

#Alastor #hazbin hotel #hazbin hotel fanart #Alastor fanart #hazbin hotel alastor #depths of the bayou #fanart #my art #bayou #deer #skeleton #the coat design is based off 1920s sport suit style coats #and the rifle is the ‘1920 Savage’ American hunting rifle #for the deer skeleton i referenced the 1733 bone anatomy book ‘osteographia’ #that’s right #I did research for this fanart of a fictional cannibal serial killer #I wanted to merge the boundary of where he came from and who he used to be vs what he is now #hence the demon form but is in the bayou hunting deer #also I love the idea that the human world has its own spirits and monsters seperate to the heaven/hell business #and that when he was alive he would have been familiar with it

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

#halloween #michael myers #waiting for October #fictional character #antagonist #icons of horror #slasher film #serial killer

[mcyt-cats]

cat update :( if you dont buy jimmy's plushies then flick and norman will be sent to buenos aires, argentina to be adopted to another family

(according to mythical sausage)

#i got distracted making this post by learning that norman is named after norman bates the fictional serial killer #which is something i probably should have already known as the admin of the cat blog who also watches nearly all of jimmy's streams #but i did not in fact know that

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Have you read...

note: If you did not finish but feel you read enough to form an opinion, you may choose a ‘Yes’ option instead of 'Partly' (e.g., Yes, I didn’t like it). Interpret "neutral or complicated" however you like, I intended this category to be a broad option between like and dislike.

The story is told in the first-person by Patrick Bateman, a wealthy, narcissistic, vain Manhattan investment banker who supposedly lives a double life as a serial killer.

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#american psycho #bret easton ellis #horror books #horror #bookblr #books #horror classics #patrick bateman #serial killer fiction #horrorbookpoll

[skellydun]

do you guys have any book recommendations? i like horror, mystery, ones that just take u on a little feel good adventure. really anything other than fantasy and YA stuff.

#im going to the bookstore to pick up a new book so why not get TWO books that way I have something to read while camping #i was thinking of reading the band of brothers book before watching the series but i need a bit more fiction in a book #on the road by jack kerouac and the reddening by adam neville are probably two of my fave books of all time AND i am not a serial killer #omg and prey by michael crichton #im apparently just gonna list my favorite books alkjlafda

[audhd-nightwing]

i don’t get ppl who think real life serial killers are attractive or cool or whatever. like those are Real People. if you wanna call a serial killer babygirl just find a fictional one

like. there’s so many fictional murderers and such that people make edits and fanart/fanfic of and it’s a billion times less problematic than doing that with Actual Real Life Killers. go draw patrick bateman in a maid dress. make some edits of (matthew lillard as) stu and william afton.

have fun with it bc at the end of the day, they are fictional characters and doing that stuff doesn’t hurt anybody. however, doing that with real life killers? that does hurt people.

basically: don’t romanticize actual serial killers when it’s so much less fucked up to just call hannibal lecter your babygirl or draw the riddler as a catboy

#random thought of the day #the romanticization of serial killers #they keep making shows and movies about them #why??? #it’s awful #death mention tw #tw serial killers #i don’t go into detail but i wanna be safe #patrick bateman #stu macher #william afton #hannibal lecter #the riddler #fictional characters #lmk if there’s any tags u think i should add

[purpleshadow-star]

Pic context: Talking about the exy stadium at USC considering the fact that USC is a real school

I love how Nora just invents things in order to avoid complications with real-life things.

Like, using USC's football stadium as the exy stadium too would take a lot of work to figure out how that would be possible. Solution: invent a new stadium!

Having the characters play a real sport that already exists would mean looking into all the rules and regulations and history, etc, and there could be multiple elements of the sport that work against the plot of the story or complicate it in some way. Solution: invent a new sport!

I mean, it gives her full creative control over what happens in the story, and we as readers get to learn about a cool new thing without feeling the need to fact-check every element. Tbh, it makes so much sense to me.

Like, go off! Make stuff up! It's your world. We're just reading and enjoying and becoming obsessed with it!!!

#also the fact that palmetto state university is made up #it's based on an actual college but it doesnt actually exist lol #and again i think that makes sense #it allows us to become immersed in this fiction story even though it takes place in our world #i think having these elements unique to that world also makes it easier to go along with the plot #like imagine if neil was being hunted by his serial killer father and the yakuza while attending the university of south carolina #and playing hokey or lacrosse or smth #the made up stuff helps woth the immersion imo #anyway i just wanted to point out how funny it was that her solution is to make stuff up #like makes sense 100% work smarter not harder #tbh if the series wasnt centered around a fake sport i prob wouldnt have read it 💀 #like im just being real here #so thank you nora for going through the trouble of creating a whole new sport #bc im sure that was the final thing that convinced many people to read it (i.e. me) #anyway rant over #aftg #all for the game #nora sakavic #the sunshine court #tsc #the foxhole court #the raven king #the kings men #exy

[runs-red]

the "fiction does/does not affect reality" phrase needs to be wiped out of shipcourse bc it's done nothing but lead to miscommunications and annoy me

#“If FIcTion DoEsn'T AffECt reAlity wHy doEs iT MaKe ppL feEl ThinGs!!” #No one said fiction can't impact your emotions! we meant that it won't turn you into a serial killer or abuser actually so... #proship #proshipping #pro fic #pro fiction #reds.shipcourse

[coldblooded-angel]

Post-Saltburn AU!

Where Oliver meets someone who bears an eerie resemblance to the boy he loved put in the ground all those years ago. (aka Bobby Falls, a serial killer running from the law on vacation in the UK)

Oliver had to do a double take.

He recognized the slope of his shoulders, the shape of his legs. His hair was cropped short but he recognized him the same.

He buried the love of his life that summer. So why has he come to haunt him again?

#daff writes #yall dont even know the amount of worms that have taken residence in my brain #who win in a fight? bobby or oliver? #place your bets yall #YES I KNOW THE TIMING IS OFF #BUT THIS IS FICTION STFU #I WANNA SEE TWO SERIAL KILLERS GO HEAD TO HEAD #maybe kiss too