Hannibal Lecter

Beginning with Red Dragon, Thomas Harris’s Hannibal Lecter series has become the ultimate classic and standard-bearer in psychological horror. In book two, The Silence of the Lambs, when a young FBI agent tries to track down the serial killer named Buffalo Bill she enlists the help of another killer, the incarcerated and manipulative Hannibal Lecter. “A psychological thriller so deftly woven and gripping that a reader can hardly get through one sentence fast enough to discover what’s in the next.” (Associated Press). Harris’s novel was adapted to film with brilliant performances from stars Jodi Foster and Anthony Hopkins.