A Taste for Hannibal
Do you enjoy a fine meal of suspense and fear? Of course you do. Everyone enjoys a good scare so long as you're in no real danger. On the whole I'm against serial killers in fact. In fiction however, they can be fascinating, even then I've never been that big of a fan except for Hannibal Lector. Exactly how did author Thomas Harris create a monster so sublimely terrifying that you hope your paths never cross, yet somehow you're rooting for the evil bastard? Harris himself has admitted that writing Hannibal frightens him. That's quite a statement considering that Harris is the puppet master. Dr. Lector first appeared as a minor character in the book "The Red Dragon". Harris understood that there was much more to be explored with Lector. A mere seven years later "Silence of the Lambs" was published. Eleven years later "Hannibal" was published. Mr. Harris is in no hurry to publish books. All three of these books are must reads in my not...