At 08:07 AM 31/07/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>John Williams <
johnwilliams@ntlworld.com> wrote:
>
> > Moderately sucessful - though generally morally
and artistically
>bankrupt -
> > are the burgeoning ranks of the serial killer
specialists - but that's a
>US
> > blight as well (then again I suppose serial
killer novels more properly
> > belong to the horror tradition than the
h/b).
>
> > Apologies for the rambling nature of the above.
Any thoughts?
>
>Yes, thanks for the insight that serial killer books
belong in the horror
>genre. It's so obvious once you say it, but this bit
of taxonomy never
>occurred to me.
How about them as a cross between horror and police
procedural? They so often become a personal challenge between
the monster and some form of super-cop.
Kerry
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