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Bones and All: Serial Cannibalism

This was an unexpected jog off the path for me. I usually class cannibal stories as separate from serial killer stories. In my mind, they are closer to zombie stories than serial killer stories. I guess the flesh eating aspect of it (which, I find super gross) puts them into the same “ew” box in my mind. So I decided to watch the Bones and All movie starring  Taylor Russell and Timothée Chalamet completely separate from this series. It was only after watching the movie that I realized that, yes, it is a serial killer story. Perhaps even more-so than a slasher. I enjoyed the movie so much that I decided to…

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The Classic Feel of a Teenage Slasher

There’s something so familiar about the teenage slasher genre that it’s almost comforting. In that way, There’s Someone Inside Your House by Stephanie Perkins was a — (dare I say it?) — cozy read. The book was published in 2017, and was Perkin’s first foray into horror, her first three books being contemporary romance. The book was adapted into a movie in 2021, and overall was well-received. When I started reading it, I wasn’t sure I could handle it. After all, it’s a slasher! I haven’t watched a slasher film in fifteen years because of my anxiety, and I am particularly susceptible to books that have scenes of creeping/stalking inside…

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Not the Killer, But His Wife

This week’s book was The Serial Killer’s Wife by Alice Hunter. It was published in 2021, and apparently Hunter has a few thematically related books, The Serial Killer’s Daughter and The Serial Killer’s Sister. She worked as an interventions facilitator in a prison, often working with prisoners who’d committed violent crimes. So one would assume she comes to fiction with a deep understanding of the criminal mind and the social fallout related to those crimes — especially when it comes to how the crimes can effect the family. Before I get into the book, I want to point out that I have read three books in a month. Me. Super-slow-reader-Koji…

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Getting to the Roots: The Killer Inside Me

One of the earliest published books on my serial killer to-read list was The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson. Thompson is a pulp writer of the 1950s, with over 30 books published, and The Killer Inside Me is one of the first serial killer books from the point of view of the serial killer. Okay, I had to check that “fact”. So I just fell down a rabbit hole of history sites, blogs, critiques and (gulp) thesis papers to confirm that The Killer Inside Me does seem to be the first book written from the POV of a serial killer, though neither the first book from the POV of…

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A Serial On Serial Killers

I’ve been thinking of what I want to do with my blog. As social media has fallen off for me (Twitter makes me angry. Blue Sky is nice at times, but I find I still spend too much time scrolling. I can’t for the life of me figure out how Instagram is supposed to work etc.) I want to go back to blogging. Of late I’ve been considering the “content age” that we’re in — where we’re all told we need to constantly produce content or we’ll be forgotten. I’ve wanted to stop chasing that, and only put out “content” that is authentic and meaningful. Of course, getting out of…

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