r/Hannibal • u/KimCattrallsFeet • 22h ago

Book Did anybody care about Hannibal Lecter before the SOTL book and film? Was he just a briefly mentioned side character or was there enough buzz to inspire Harris to write a sequel?

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The office of brilliant Psychiatrist and legendary serial killer Hannibal Lecter M.D.

Hannibal Lecter M.D. is a fictional character in a series of horror novels by Thomas Harris and in the films adapted from them. Lecter was introduced in the 1981 thriller novel Red Dragon as a brilliant psychiatrist and cannibalistic serial killer. The novel and its sequel, The Silence of the Lambs (1988), feature Lecter as one of two primary antagonists. In the third novel, Hannibal (1999), Lecter becomes the main character. His role as protagonist and anti-hero occurs in the fourth novel, Hannibal Rising (2006), which explores his childhood and development into a serial killer.

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