The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris
Time for the main course of the Lecter books!
Our Review
Published October 10, 2011
Before he was winning Oscars and dominating the silver screen, Hannibal Lecter returned to the page in Thomas Harris’s 1988 novel The Silence of the Lambs. In this second Lecter story, the brilliant but imprisoned doctor is enlisted to help an FBI trainee track down a killer who skins his victims—while Lecter quietly plots a gruesome escape of his own. Join Stuart as he revisits the novel that deepened Lecter’s legend, examining how Clarice Starling’s presence reshapes the dynamic with the infamous doctor and helped turn Harris’s cultured cannibal into one of fiction’s most compelling villains.
Book Synopsis
The Silence of the Lambs is a psychological horror novel by Thomas Harris. First published in 1988, it is the sequel to Harris's 1981 novel Red Dragon. Both novels feature the cannibalistic serial killer Dr. Hannibal Lecter, this time pitted against FBI Special Agent Clarice Starling. The novel won the 1988 Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel. The novel also won the 1989 Anthony Award for Best Novel. It was nominated for the 1989 World Fantasy Award. ---------- Also contained in: - (
Book Details
- Author
- Thomas Harris
- Published
- 1988
- Publisher
- Heyne
- Pages
- 382
- Language
- German
- ISBN
- 9783453051362
- Series
- Hannibal Lecter (#2 of 4)
- Genres
- autopsy, black witch moth, lambs, offender profiling, pupa
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