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Serial Killers in Literature

TV series and films featuring serial killers are more popular than ever, with 16 shows streaming on Netflix at the moment. It’s a theme that runs through literature as well, with many a series or film adapted from books.

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1. Name the serial killer guided by an inner voice he calls “The Dark Passenger.”
Dexter Morgan

2. What unusual trait is shared by the victims of serial killer Buffalo Bill?
They are all overweight.

3. Name the novel about two sisters who stick together even though one of them keeps murdering her sister’s boyfriends.
My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite

4. Name the serial killers, revealed to be cannibals, who targeted victims they knew, locked them in their basement and forced them to eat raw liver before killing them, believing that human flesh would heal their many pains and ailments.
Emily and Rodney Harris from Holly by Stephen King

5. Set in Appalachia, name the novel in which the killer stores the corpses of his female victims in a cavern deep in the mountain cave system, and wears the clothes and makeup of his victims.
Child of God by Cormac McCarthy 

6. Name the medical examiner trying to uncover the monster behind a gruesome trail of stranglings that has paralyzed Richmond, Virginia.
Dr. Kay Scarpetta from Postmortem by Patricia Cornwell

7.  Name the serial killer in this novel, based on real life, who tries to find a perfect young male companion and re-wire his brain, thereby turning the victim into a mindless sex slave.
Quentin P

8. Name the novel that features a literary writer haunted by the memory of a serial killer he created under a pseudonym?
The Dark Half  by Stephen King

9. Not exactly a serial killer in the traditional sense but rather a sociopathic hitman, name this evil monster who often shoots people between the eyes with a bolt gun.
Anton Chigurh

10. Name the novel in which a serial killer’s daughter, a local vet who suffers blackouts, suspects she may be following in her father’s footsteps.
The Serial Killer’s Daughter by Alice Hunter