Have a Hannibal Christmas!
When it comes to commercial reading, I have quite a fondness for crime and serial killer themed novels. And my absolute favourites are Thomas Harris's Red Dragon, Silence of the Lambs and Hannibal, which feature and focus on cannibal-psychiatrist Hannibal Lecter.
Forget for a moment Anthony Hopkins' hynotic on-screen performances as Hannibal the Cannibal. The Hannibal of the books is far creepier, as readers are exposed to his psychological inner workings, his special 'place'. He's the one literary character I'm careful what I say about... just in case he pops up behind me in a dark passageway one day. He's my cross-over-into-reality Candyman as it were.
Anyway, I'd heard vague mentions that Harris was working on another Hannibal book, but forgot about it. Now it looks like Hannibal Rising (focusing on the serial killer's formative years) is going to be in bookstores just in time for Christmas this year. So be sure to check that it's really turkey you're munching on the 25th December. Ta-ta...
From: Coming Soon
Hannibal Rising Coming December 5
Reuters is reporting that author Thomas Harris has written a new book featuring fictional serial killer/cannibal Hannibal Lecter, famously played in films by Anthony Hopkins.
The book, "Hannibal Rising," will be in stores on December 5 with a first printing of 1.5 million copies and just in time for the Christmas sales season, Delacorte Press, an imprint of the Bantam Dell Publishing Group, said on Tuesday.
Lecter first appeared in print in Harris' 1981 book "Red Dragon" and then in 1988 in "Silence of the Lambs."
In "Hannibal Rising" readers learn about Lecter's early life in Eastern Europe from age 6 to 20, following the death of his entire family during WWII.
A film version of the new novel, currently titled Young Hannibal, is expected to be released on February 9, 2007. Harris wrote the screenplay.
Forget for a moment Anthony Hopkins' hynotic on-screen performances as Hannibal the Cannibal. The Hannibal of the books is far creepier, as readers are exposed to his psychological inner workings, his special 'place'. He's the one literary character I'm careful what I say about... just in case he pops up behind me in a dark passageway one day. He's my cross-over-into-reality Candyman as it were.
Anyway, I'd heard vague mentions that Harris was working on another Hannibal book, but forgot about it. Now it looks like Hannibal Rising (focusing on the serial killer's formative years) is going to be in bookstores just in time for Christmas this year. So be sure to check that it's really turkey you're munching on the 25th December. Ta-ta...
From: Coming Soon
Hannibal Rising Coming December 5
Reuters is reporting that author Thomas Harris has written a new book featuring fictional serial killer/cannibal Hannibal Lecter, famously played in films by Anthony Hopkins.
The book, "Hannibal Rising," will be in stores on December 5 with a first printing of 1.5 million copies and just in time for the Christmas sales season, Delacorte Press, an imprint of the Bantam Dell Publishing Group, said on Tuesday.
Lecter first appeared in print in Harris' 1981 book "Red Dragon" and then in 1988 in "Silence of the Lambs."
In "Hannibal Rising" readers learn about Lecter's early life in Eastern Europe from age 6 to 20, following the death of his entire family during WWII.
A film version of the new novel, currently titled Young Hannibal, is expected to be released on February 9, 2007. Harris wrote the screenplay.
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