Sometimes horror, even at its darkest, is the window dressing for something more tender. His descent would almost be funny if it wasn’t so chillingly believable. Even Wilde’s central monster, Dorian himself, is more tragic idiot than conniving mastermind, a youthful dope consumed by a pathological belief that the only thing worth having is beauty at any cost. The lurking danger of this book is our capacity for vanity and how it can literally and metaphorically disfigure us, how obsession with retaining beauty will inevitably lead to its destruction. There are no real villains in Oscar Wilde’s first and only novel. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde Every Lecter story on some level features an implicit Faustian bargain and none is more tragic than FBI crimimal profiler Will Graham’s knowing choice to sacrifice his own fragile peace of mind to stop a killer he understands all too well.Ģ. The Silence of the Lambs gets all the attention, but the best Hannibal Lecter novel is still the first a book that suggests the most horrifying of evils can grow from an all too human place, and that even heroes can carry something monstrous inside them. Whether I pulled any of that off is for others to decide, but below are 10 of the books that most inspired me, horror stories that in different ways revolutionised the genre by being far more than just bumps in the night. In writing The Hunted I wanted to take the audience on a visceral, pulp-infused thrill ride, but beyond that I wanted to say something about Australia, about masculinity, about fear.
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