Now in Phase Three, the program includes dozens of young men who have no clue as to their evil heritage. Department of Defense to develop a new breed of bioweapon. The DNA of the world’s most notorious serial killers has been cloned by the U.S. So these specific monsters likely aren’t going anywhere for a long, long while… Or, at least, “understand.”Īdd it all up, and you get a lethal invisible fantasy imbued with smarts and style far beyond the real-life version. But they’re bad in a way we just maybe admire. In traditional Tragedy, the hero is the one at odds with society because he/she doesn’t fit the system and is fighting to secure their rightful station in the world. A tragic hero, of sorts, for our existential age. Living beyond Good or Evil in world nervous about what to say to someone during Christmas. In reply, the serial killer: A romanticized being who doesn’t give a rat’s ass about the right things to say or do. Our language and personal exchanges are largely controlled now by human resource memos, lawsuit-leery administrators, and the PC mob whose good intentions sometimes trample common sense. From the workplace to the classroom, we don’t seem to have rules anymore – we just have referees. The last twenty years in the United States have produced similar cultural changes. At the peak of this sexually suppressed/repressed culture, came a romanticized being who screwed for fun and flung and spilled hot fluids better than a Nickelodeon game show. In 1897, Stoker’s Dracula was largely a response to fifty years of Victorian behavior control. ![]() And it’s that possibility that makes them very interesting, indeed.ģ] Serial killers may be our vampire. They’re real, and here, and you just might have passed one today. ![]() The sun or a bucket of water won’t make these guys melt away. Most are men, and that’s half the people you know. No long dripping fangs or hockey masks or green scales. Better? And the really interesting/horrifying part is that they look exactly like everyone else. Maybe we’ll go with the lowest estimates, and it’d be only 40,000 Americans capable of murdering without a second thought. Most, 98%, are just self-centered jerks, leaving only 2% of those twelve million as violent murder-ready souls. Are they all serial killers, of course not. High estimates suggest that as many as 4% of Americans are sociopaths those who just don’t care about the feelings, needs or lives of others. ![]() Right?Ģ] Serial killers are the monsters among us. And fiction makes this dark pursuit even more enjoyable because it’s, well, fiction. We all know we’re gonna die eventually, so watching some other poor guy go down crowns the King of all Schadenfreude. Our macabre and innate fascination with someone else’s demise. Now that I’ve started promoting the books, however, I’ve gotten the “Why do we seem to like serial killers so much” question enough that I had to think about that Why some and jot down some thoughts here.ġ] The early/quick answer is morbid curiosity: the same reason we check out traffic accidents, gape at Holocaust footage, and spend our dollars on slasher films and novels. I never really stopped to think Why folk (including me) were so interested in these tales. While researching and writing the books, I was mostly focused on the lives of these men and the possible science/causes behind their crimes. In both, I spend time with some of the most infamous serial killers in American history (Bundy, Gacy, Dahmer, etc.) and their teenaged counterparts (clones). I have two books with serial killers coming out this Fall: CAIN’S BLOOD (a techno thriller) and PROJECT CAIN (an accompanying spinoff novel for teens). From a dozen different television programs to the latest movie or best-seller list, you’re gonna find a prototypical serial killer: middle-aged white guy who’s knowledgeable, clever, eccentric, and just doesn’t give a damn whether you live or die. The popularity of serial killers in fiction is at an all-time high.
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