I love horror. I love blood and guts horror, torture horror, and mythical creature horror. The likes of A Nightmare on Elm Street, and the seven SAW films make up a large part of my DVD and BluRay collection, but my favourite part of the genre is anything that is psychological. And this leads me to an author who does this better than most: Thomas Harris.
Harris was born on April 11th 1940 in Jackson, Tennessee and majored in English at Baylor University in the now infamous town of Waco in Texas. After a brief stint with the Waco Herald he joined the Associated Press in New York City and covered crime in the United States and Mexico whilst working on his fiction writing.
His debut novel Black Sunday is about an American planning an act of terrorism at the Super Bowl and was released in 1975, but it is a certain quadrilogy that brought Harris to the public's attention. Starting in 1981 the world was introduced to the cannibalistic sociopath Doctor Hannibal Lecter, a forensic psychiatrist.
