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QUIZ


Serial Killers in Literature

TV series and films featuring serial killers are more popular than ever, with 16 shows streaming on Netflix at the moment. It’s a theme that runs through literature as well, with many a series or film adapted from books. Try your hand at guessing the answers and you’re in the running to receive a 30-euro (£23 / $33) gift certificate to spend at Amazon; in case of a tie, a name will be drawn. Deadline: August 1, 2025

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1. Name the serial killer guided by an inner voice he calls “The Dark Passenger.”


2. What unusual trait is shared by the victims of serial killer Buffalo Bill?


3. Name the novel about two sisters who stick together even though one of them keeps murdering her sister’s boyfriends.


4. Name the serial killers, revealed to be cannibals, who targeted victims they knew, locked them in their basement and forced them to eat raw liver before killing them, believing that human flesh would heal their many pains and ailments.

5. Set in Appalachia, name the novel in which the killer stores the corpses of his female victims in a cavern deep in the mountain cave system, and wears the clothes and makeup of his victims.


6. Name the medical examiner trying to uncover the monster behind a gruesome trail of stranglings that has paralyzed Richmond, Virginia.


7.  Name the serial killer in this novel, based on real life, who tries to find a perfect young male companion and re-wire his brain, thereby turning the victim into a mindless sex slave.


8. Name the novel that features a literary writer haunted by the memory of a serial killer he created under a pseudonym?


9. Not exactly a serial killer in the traditional sense but rather a sociopathic hitman, name this evil monster who often shoots people between the eyes with a bolt gun.


10. Name the novel in which a serial killer’s daughter, a local vet who suffers blackouts, suspects she may be following in her father’s footsteps.

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