#books about serial killers

[im-totally-not-an-alien-2]

Halloween prompts year 2 day 28

Thomas stared down at Bruce-no- Danny as he led him by the hand toward what he had dubbed as his "Secret Lair" which was just an old fall out shelter in the woods that had been well hidden and forgotten about. The door to it was old and still buried under years of dirt and plant growth, requiring Danny to phase them into it which made Thomas wonder how his grandson had found it in the first place.

Inside was surprisingly high tech. "You have a secret lair filled with all this equipment but don't have any weapons or armor?" Thomas asked, making mental preparations to fix that.

Danny sheepishly rubbed the back of his neck and explained his only allies were two other 14 year olds who were also untrained, unarmed, unarmored, and unsuper-powered which would explain why Danny was so excited to be working with an adult vigilante who at least knew what they were doing.

The kid didn't even mind when some of his more evil or harmful rogues "stopped showing up" thankfully no one would really question the reclusive Vlad Masters "going back to Wisconsin" only to never be seen again. No one saw much of him before coming to Amity Park, it made since he would become a hermit again once he had his fill of human interaction.

And if hes later found dead in his cheese castle? Well, the body had decomposed too much to really say what killed him. His will left everything to a Daniel James Fenton/Daniel James Masters which visibly infuriated Danny. Thomas mentally patted himself on the back. It was a good call to get rid of that one. The will was a surprise, though one that can only benefit Thomas in his crusade of protecting his grandson. Its not like he can return to a timeline that no longer exists anyway.

Unfortunately this doesn't stop the bats from hearing about "Batman" operating in a city in Illinois for the past few months...

#halloween prompts #dpxdc #thomas wayne #batman #thomas wayne as batman #phantom is being the Robin to Thomas Waynes Batman and its a blend of happy fluff and broody angst #danny phantom #danny fenton #fanfiction prompts #prompts #danny knows about the killings but is willing to turn a blind eye so long as it doesnt go too far or become unreasonable #skulker and vlad both kinda deserve it tbh #skulker is a self proclaimed serial killer who sometimes skins his victims alive...kinda and you cant tell me Vlad who has canonically #kidnapped tortured expirimented on ect on danny hasnt done this before when he seems so comfortable and familiar with doing it #thomas will not speak about of the things he saw at vlads mansions and secret hideouts #lets just say there was a lot of book burnings #imagine when the batfam learn about this #damian: You have our grandfather >:( #danny: you have out dad* catmom* knifemom* all our siblings* AND alfred. i get to keep gramps! #danny: *hugs grampa batman protectively*

[bitchthefuck1]

It's always so funny to me when people call Kaz a serial killer or a murderer bc like. boy do I have news for you about the other crows.

#like idk how to tell you this bestie but every single one of them has a kill count. yes even wylan. #prime example of getting so caught up in the aesthetics or character types that you miss the actual reality of what happens in #a story #also i'm not sure serial killer is even an accurate description #similar to when people started referring to inej as an assassin. like bestie that is straight up not what she does. and if it was she's #doing a terrible job. the books tell you a million times that she's a spy #to be clear this isn't an 'uwu kaz did nothing wrong' post esp bc most of the time when ppl call him this they're not actually criticizing #his actions. it's just a pattern i noticed. if anything its a 'stop sanitizing the rest of the crows' post. #but it is interesting to me that kaz is the only character that people will really joke about having killed people #something something you've bought into the dirtyhands legend #i feel like i've made some version of this post in the past but i don't remember so you're hearing it again #six of crows #kaz brekker #inej ghafa #jesper fahey #wylan van eck #matthias helvar #nina zenik

[kazz-brekker]

travis bell at the end of some shall break

#yes i'm posting memes about a thriller about serial killers on christmas day. let me live #just finished reading it this afternoon and all i have to say is HOLY FUCK ELLIE MARNEY HOW DARE YOU!! #pie says stuff #pie reads #some shall break #none shall sleep #books #ellie marney

[cassierobinsons]

having an indescribable experience reading a book where it's clear the author used to be a tumblrina and not like in a saccharine rainbow rowell way. i mean that you can tell she was in the TRENCHES.

#glee les mis and serial killer fandom have all been referenced #genuinely terrified I'll see spn crop up #this is a book about a (fictional) murder btw!!!

[lobotomyladylives]

I'm thinking about the murder spree I'm gonna go on if I don't achieve my dreams

#like theres no point in living a civilized life if i cant make money as a writer im done with doing things i hate all the time #might as well be in prison at that point thats what it feels like to have to work minimim wage & waste my beautiful mind!!!! #some very bad men will die about this . its only fair #if im succesful enough of a serial killer my book will sell sooo well

[lunaria--annua]

If he can't get the act together, The Dark will. A complete take over, but a welcome one.

It happens rarely, but when it does, it's because he's forced to confront his past atrocities in one way or another. Him acting strangely in such situations... people could get suspicious, and he runs into the danger of giving himself away.

And that, is the worst case scenario.

When The Dark takes over, both eyes go completely black. It knows him for years and knows how to replicate his personality and views well. It tends to keep the usually not-black eye closed, to avoid further suspicion. Ranaer meanwhile is having something like an out-of-body experience...

#digital art #drawing #sketch #original character #warlock #my art #ranaer #dark #you don't want people to figure out who you are! or were! The Murderer! The Serial Killer! #not giving them a single hint- good thing he kept his face hidden in his youth #anyone who saw it; it was a death sentence. maybe not for a select few. #You don't understand how bad this is Viewer - HE'S IN HISTORY BOOKS! #chapters about The Cold Ages; young history. it hasn't been a century after all. just half a lifetime #Phantasterei

[gh-0-stcup]

This is a nice speech from Sam, but it feels like it was written by somebody who didn't really watch the show.

It pretty clearly wasn't "just one more job" in season 1. Not after Jess died, at least. They were looking for their dad and Sam wanted to kill Azazel. He probably had hopes of returning to school, but he wasn't just going aimlessly from hunt to hunt. He had a specific mission that season.

#then there was the whole very public nationwide manhunt for being bank robbing serial killers thing #worst thing about long running shows is when they forget their own fucking canon #sam (and dean) being on a mission to find his dad and kill azazel was like the main point of the season #do the writers not at least go through a cliff notes summary of past seasons before they join the staff? #is nobody checking this shit out? #spn #spn s10 #10x18 book of the damned #sam winchester #by the sixth episode dean was a serial killer who targeted sam's close friends and then died #idk if i can believe sam was harboring realistic hopes of going back to stanford

[clonerightsagenda]

me at like age 11 reading a trashy action/adventure series because no one had taken them away from me yet: why do all the men in this book get referred to by their last names and all the women get referred to by their first names

#funnily they did NOT take the clive cussler books away from me #my mom wasn't thrilled about me looking at her janet evanovich books but she allowed it #one time my grandfather brought a book about serial killers though and they took that away from me when I was partway thru the first chapte #rude. jokes on them though my fourth grade classroom had a most famous homicides book

[july-19th-club]

oatmeal book! oatmeal book!! oatmeal book!!!

#animorphs #book 16 was something ELSE #everybody's like oh yeerk serial killer episode but the buried part of the lede is #that this is the book where jake really starts to crack under pressure of leadership and start making unilateral and divisive decisions #like letting said serial killer live because that person isn't just killing humans he's killing YEERKS #and his and cassies rift over it . the rift that will allow them to win the war but which their relationship wont survive #and that very chilling final scene with the whole gang hanging out and helping do chores around the barn #and he says something like we were still us. for now #q #but we're not here to talk about all that! we're here to read the oatmeal book!

[blaqueswanzaghouliishiilikeda]

i think that the fact that daniel started on the right with claudia’s journal even though Louis by proxy of Armand told him to start on the left—the beginning (“you’re jumping ahead” / “let the tale seduce you)—had a lasting impact on the way he [daniel] viewed claudia and her circumstances. He didn’t start from where she was doomed to this life. The first thing that really impacted him was reading about her feeding off of POWs and recording the experience and he seemed really put off by it, considering the way he says “wow”. it’s definitely giving: I would care about this tragic young life you describe if they weren’t breaking laws and going against my morals and all that. i don’t know that he was going to ever be able to empathize with her. but he definitely took a boohoo you’re doing all these bad things cause your childhood was sad. boohoo approach to learning about her that i think louis wanted to control/avoid going into it. im not really saying anything that hasn’t been touched on i’m sure and not much more to say really just thinking thoughts on yet another rewatch 💭

#like how yt liberals are always like i’d care about police killing these black kids if they weren’t thugs etc etc #doing drugs etc etc #stealing etc etc #always conditions to keep then from seeing the humanity and tragedy of existing as a young black what have you #ep 4 #rewatch #iwtv #mw posts #if this was an article about her he’d post it with the header: young serial killer feeds off pows and describes how they taste #followed by a picture of her mug shot #he would never frame this in a way that reckoned with how she was forced into monster hood damned from the start #like he might of if she was her yt 5 yr old counterpart in the book #color conscious casting doing its thing again

[cav-core]

The funniest moment that's supposed to be scary in The Silver Eyes is when William's about to start serial killer monologuing about Henry and his captive teenage victim is like "who's Henry? Oh, yeah. I always just called him "Charlie's dad"."

#now you've thrown him off his rhythm.jpg #the silver eyes #fnaf #william afton #he's commendably weird about henry in this book #but also yeah cringe fail serial killer can't even get his monologue out without being interrupted

[ellatholmes]

having thoughts about character beliefs vs author beliefs and how it can be hard to distinguish between the two, mostly in the sense that things in a book support a character's bad/harmful takes and so it can feel kind of like the author is in some way potentially endorsing it?

#this isnt about writing serial killers and me being like oh that writer believes in and endorses serial murder! #it's obvs much more nuanced and complex than that #it is something I wish there was more discussion on #esp bc i think the responses to some critical takes on books can be quite defensive when people say a book is a bit racist/ableist etc #without considering that we arent ASSUMING the author believs xyz. the narrative is showing us that they MIGHT and it's UNCOMFY #anyways.... essay? #p for personal

[kazz-brekker]

please also have this very low effort meme that summed up my thoughts whenever kristin referred to her brother as a god or she and simon started talking about how they were one soul in two bodies and would die if they were separated

#as one twin to another: girl please seek help that is not healthy or normal behavior #even if one of them WASN'T a convicted serial killer than is not a normal thing to say about your twin #yes i know that says 'since our the twins' i'm a tired and lazy person #pie says stuff #pie reads #some shall break #none shall sleep #books #simply meming my way through this dark and serious series please excuse me #ellie marney

[poirot]

some book recs: the haunting of hill house, dr jekyll and mr hyde, the phantom of the opera, the turn of the screw, the yellow wallpaper, sharp objects, the girl on the train

thank you so much for the recommendations, anon <3 it‘s funny because I put ‚the haunting of hill house‘ on my ebook just a few days ago ahsjs haven’t started it yet though because I wasn‘t sure if it‘s too scary for me lol but I think I might read it next!! the phantom of the opera, sharp objects and the girl on the train are on my tbr list since forever, so I definitely should get to them! the other ones I already read (actually just read the yellow wallpaper last week ahsje) but again THANK you sm for the recommendations 💗

#i honestly know nothing of the haunting of hill house #except that the late adaption was very horror-ish #which is why I thought it might be too scary for me ahsjd #but I’m usually not really scared by books that way #like I love reading creepy gothic books #just like realistic brutal stuff freaks me out like torture and serial killers and stuff #anywayssss #might read it next!! #*latest adaption #lol my dyslexia is acting up since I’m out of university #i swear I can‘t spell anymore #phantom (and girl on the train as well) always scare me because they longer than 300 pages LOL #don’t ask about the 300 page rule ahsjs #it’s a long story ahsjsjd (I blame my autism ahsjs) #I didn’t know sharo objects was so short though #I need to put it on my ebook! #answered #anonymous

[sanzuphobe]

part of me is sad that no one i know knows strangers from hell because i dont get to talk about it with anyone but the other part is really glad because if they did know it and heard me talk about it they would be very concerned for my mental health im sure

#i dont talk a whole lot about hte media i love to most people #like ill tell them what i like but no indepth conversation about specific shows/books/movies #because no one else likes what i like and everyone is in fact very disturbed by it #but apparently i let enough shine through that even the exchange coordinator told me “you would love the grinch” with total sincerity #and im like. first of all how do you know that. #like no one will take my recommendations for anything because they immediately assume it is the worst horror ever #we wanted to go to broadway and i suggested seeing hadestown so they immediately assumed that it was a fucking horror musical #just bc i recommended it #should i be worried about the impression i apparently make on other people #should i stop telling people that i put on true crime shows or serial killer shows to fall asleep #personal

[six-of-ravens]

forgot how much i love ann rule

#she is SO GOOD #not just a good writer but like. responsible? empathetic? kind? realistic? #idk. she's just good #if your problem with true crime is that it's all teenyboppers screeching about how hot serial killers are while doing makeup tutorials #read an ann rule book instead. see how the real pros do it #i know some of her books have dumb titles but Marketing be like that. the stranger beside me is a good starting point #i started with small sacrifices which is also very good