Fairy Tales & Legends
Infamous additions to the literary cannon, these brothers scared the pants of children with their gorey tales of fairy tale woe.
This was one the first television shows (2000) to illustrate the behind the scenes processes of crime busting, down to the last bit of DNA.
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
This infamous novel to film murderer holds a PhD in psychiatry, has a uniquely distinguished palate and a soft spot in his heart for a young FBI agent.
Dr. Hannibal Lecter
This 1980s serial killer served as inspiration for a graphic novel by Derf Backderf and full length feature film in 2017.
Jeffrey Dahmer
He likes clowns. Likes to dress up as them. Likes to paint them. And I'm not talking about Pennywise.
John Wayne Gacy
Gingerbread houses will never be the same after you read this story to the kiddos.
Hansel and Gretel
This more recent Netflix original series centers around the creators of the first behavioral unit at Quantico and the interviews of serial killers that they eagerly conduct.
Mindhunter
Amazing Amy was a cool girl, now she's out for revenge.
Gone Girl
This charismatic and attractive young murderer had a taste for young women and inspired the Netflix original Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, and Vile.
Ted Bundy
In the slasher genre of horror, only one character can survive the wrath of brutal death. She has been given a formal title first noted by the author of one of your texts, Carol Clover. What is this title?
Final Girl
This legendary character "stoked" the flames of old Transylvanian myths.
Dracula
So it's not just about murder, there's a bit of "kitchen work" in this show as well. But the bodies build up and up and up...
Hint: Los Pollos Hermanos is the cover business for some seriously bad activity.
Breaking Bad
This Brett Easton Ellis novel found a home on the big screens with Christian Bale playing the protagonist character.
American Psycho
This New York killer plead guilty to 8 gun murders and blamed it all on his neighbors black lab.
David Berkowitz, Son of Sam
This killer was into astrology, puzzles, attention seeking and killing couples on lover's lane.
Zodiac
She is the one true slayer, the only woman who can rid the world of vampires and evil.
Buffy
Norman and Norma grace the motel rooms of this 2013 novel inspired television series.
Bates Motel
This Stieg Larsson book series kept us on the edges of our seats when it hit theaters first in Sweden, then here in the U.S.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
He's the demon of Whitechapel. He's intelligent, wealthy, and may have surgical knowledge of human anatomy. And no one knows for sure who he really is!
Jack the Ripper
She's a killer but only because they forced her to. Prostitution, rape, assault and poverty led this woman not only into homicide history, but to the death penalty as well.
Aileen Wuornos
She's a legend in her own right given that her murderous life has given way to folklore, film, and literary characters. This countess loved to bath in the blood of her female servants and lived out the rest of her days under house arrest in a tower.
Elizabeth Bathory
He's meticulous, type-A and only kills those who deserve it. It's something he can't explain, an urge or sickness that needs to be fed. Oh, and he works in a crime lab.
Dexter
Thomas Harris wrote this prequel to Silence of the Lambs, the 1986 film adaptation was later remade as Red Dragon.
Manhunter
This Wisconsin son of an evangelical grew to be one of the most notorious serial killers in American history. His story served as inspiration for both Hitchcock's Psycho and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
Ed Gein
She's a local to MA and came from a well-to-do family with money. But her stingy father and need to climb the social ladder drove this little lady to double murder.
Lizzie Borden