![]() Lecter made his first appearance in Harris's 1981 novel, Red Dragon. Many of the killers who inspired Lecter share his smooth personality, his witty intellect, and occasionally his taste for human flesh. The writers, filmmakers, and actors who have encountered the character look to people like Alfredo Ballí Treviño and Ted Bundy to make Lecter as horrifyingly real as possible. Dr. Hannibal Lecter is decidedly more terrifying than Dexter Morgan, Norman Bates, and Patrick Bateman, who are a few of the best fictional serial killers ever created. The cannibalistic doctor may be make believe, but Hannibal Lecter's inspirations really did live. and kill. ![]() Thomas Harris's inspiration for entertainment's most notoriously terrifying fictional serial killer is wrapped up in the stories of several, real-life psychopaths. ![]()
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