I am not a serial killer (2010)
I am not a serial killer is a 2010 serial murderers book written by Dan Wells.
John keeps a careful distance from his own worst impulses. Fascinated by serial killers, he suspects what he might become, so he governs himself with a rigid set of rules meant to keep him from ever becoming what he studies. Then a body turns up behind the local laundromat, and something far darker than his private fears is loose in town. To face a danger outside himself, John may have to bend the very rules that hold him in place. Dan Wells's debut horror novel opens the John Cleaver series with clinical, creeping dread.
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John keeps a careful distance from his own worst impulses. Fascinated by serial killers, he suspects what he might become, so he governs himself with a rigid set of rules meant to keep him from ever becoming what he studies. Then a body turns up behind the local laundromat, and something far darker than his private fears is loose in town. To face a danger outside himself, John may have to bend the very rules that hold him in place. Dan Wells's debut horror novel opens the John Cleaver series with clinical, creeping dread.
When was I am not a serial killer published?
I am not a serial killer was published in 2010.
Who made I am not a serial killer?
I am not a serial killer was written by Dan Wells.
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Readers drawn to a narrator who studies his own darkness will find kin in Dexter, whose code keeps a killer functional, and in the novel You, told from inside an obsessive mind. For teenage horror with real teeth, My Friend Dahmer traces another quiet boy circling violence, while the film Let the Right One In shares this small-town chill and its lonely, watchful mood.
Protagonists who wall off their own worst impulses
John Cleaver survives I Am Not a Serial Killer by policing the dark impulses he fears will consume him, and these stories run on the same tension. Dexter, the murderous alter ego of The Dark Half, the possessed small town of Outcast and iZombie's brain-hungry heroine all follow people forcing a monster inside them to behave.
Stephen King's patient small-town dread
Dan Wells writes I Am Not a Serial Killer with the clinical, creeping dread of prime Stephen King, so his readers tend to want the real thing. Cell, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, Four Past Midnight and Wizard and Glass deliver that patient build, ordinary places curdling into fear one careful page at a time.
A killer hiding in a quiet community
The horror of I Am Not a Serial Killer is a predator hiding in a sleepy town, wearing an everyday face until the bodies appear. These comics chase the same unease. Sweet Home, Dylan Dog, High-Rise Invasion, Connect, Abara and Billy Bat each turn a familiar setting inside out once something inhuman starts moving through it.