-----Original Message----- From: Michael Robison I've got a
fondness for the genius killer in literature. You guys got
any other good examples of the genius killer?
Hm. Perhaps the H. H. Holmes analog in Robert Bloch's
AMERICAN GOTHIC. (And very arguably the Jeffrey Dahmer analog
in Joyce Carol Oates's ZOMBIE. It certainly takes a look at
the role of the sociopath in society from the sociopath's
perspective.)
The children in a rather hoky story in an "Alfred Hitchcock"
anthology (I think one of the collections from AHMM), "The
Uses of Intelligence," author forgotten. But it's a pretty
good example of attempting to portray muderers of superior
intelligence.
I suppose such fiends as Fu Manchu and Moriarty, given their
greater ambitions, hardly count.
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