Table of Contents

Acknowledgments      vi
Foreword by Daniel O’Brien      1
Preface      7
Introduction      9

1. American Gothic: Liminality and the Gothic in Thomas Harris’s Hannibal Lecter Novels
PETER MESSENT      13
2. Hannibal at the Lectern: A Textual Analysis of Dr. Hannibal Lecter’s Character and Motivations in Thomas Harris’s Red Dragon and The Silence of the Lambs
JOHN GOODRICH      37
3. Gothic Romance and Killer Couples in Black Sunday and Hannibal
PHILIP L. SIMPSON      49
4. The Butterfly and the Beast: The Imprisoned Soul in Thomas Harris’s Lecter Trilogy
ROBERT H. WAUGH      68
5. This Is the Blind Leading the Blind: Noir, Horror and Reality in Thomas Harris’s Red Dragon
DAVIDE MANA      87
6. From Red Dragon to Manhunter
TONY WILLIAMS      102
7. Suspense vs. Horror: The Case of Thomas Harris
S.T. JOSHI      118
8. Transmogrified Gothic: The Novels of Thomas Harris
TONY MAGISTRALE      133
9. Hannibal Rising: Look Back in Anger
ALI S. KARIM      147
10. Before Her Lambs Were Silent: Reading Gender and the Feminine in Red Dragon
PHILLIP A. ELLIS      160
11. Black Sunday, Black September: Thomas Harris’s Thriller, from Novel to Film, and the Terror of Reality
SCOTT D. BRIGGS      176
12. Morbidity of the Soul: An Appreciation of Hannibal
BENJAMIN SZUMSKYJ      200

Afterword: Mythmaker
CHARLES GRAMLICH      212

About the Contributors      217
Index      223