List of fictional serial killers

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The following is a list of fictional serial killers by medium:

1 Literature
2 Comics
3 Movies
4 Television
5 Games
6 Anime/Manga
7 See also

[edit] Literature

Patrick Aldermann from Reginald Hill's novel Deadheads
Barabas the Jew from the play The Jew of Malta by Christopher Marlowe
Patrick Bateman, from the novel American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
Norman Bates, from Alfred Hitchcock's seminal (1960) horror movie Psycho, based on a novel by Robert Bloch
Buffalo Bill from Thomas Harris' novel (and subsequent motion picture) The Silence of the Lambs
Thomas Bishop from Shane Stevens' "By Reason Of Insanity"
Chaingang Bunkowski from Rex Miller's Eichord novels
Francis Dolarhyde from Thomas Harris' novel Red Dragon
George Harvey from Alice Sebold's 2002 novel The Lovely Bones
Hannibal Lecter from novels by author Thomas Harris and their film adaptations
The Misfit from the 1953 short story "A Good Man is Hard to Find" by Flannery O'Connor
Rhoda Penmark from William March's 1954 novel The Bad Seed and the stage play adapted from it by Maxwell Anderson
Jack Overby from the novel Mr. Overby is Falling by Nathan Tyree
The Phantom of the Opera from the novel and movies
Reverend Harry Powell from Davis Grubb's 1953 novel The Night of the Hunter, 1955 film adaptation, and 1991 made for TV remake
Georges Querelle from Jean Genet's 1953 novel Querelle de Brest and 1982 movie adaptation Querelle
Thomas Ripley from a series of crime novels by Patricia Highsmith and in several films spawned from the novels
Serge A. Storms from Tim Dorsey's novels
Sweeney Todd from several 19th century novels
"Casanova" from the novel by James Patterson Kiss The Girls
The Gentleman Caller from the novel by James Patterson Kiss The Girls
Gary Soneji from several James Patterson novels
Edgler Vess from Dean Koontz's novel Intensity (novel)
Annie Wilkes from the Stephen King novel Misery
Dexter Morgan from the Jeff Lindsay novels as well as the Showtime TV show Dexter
Alex Winkler from the Lawrence Santoro novella, "Rat Time in the Hall of Pain"
Lawrence Wargrave from the Agatha Christie novel And Then There Were None
Jean-Baptiste Grenouille from the Patrick Süskind novel Perfume.
Miguel Solera de Lara from the book and movie of the same name O Xangô de Baker Street by Jô Soares
Voldemort, serial killer and main villain in the J.K. Rowling Harry Potter series
Gregory Rollings , sadistic serial killer from the book Soul Escape by Phillip Bailey

[edit] Comics

Steven Binst, a serial killer, created by Daniel Way and Steve Dillon, from the world of Supreme Power. He was a pharmacist who killed over 3800 people with poisoned drugs
Cletus Kasady (or Carnage) from the Marvel Universe
Corinthian from Neil Gaiman's comic book series The Sandman
Mr. Gone from Sam Keith and William Messner-Loebs' comic book series The Maxx
Johnny the Homicidal Maniac from a black-and-white comic book series by Jhonen Vasquez
Joker, archenemy of the Batman who has appeared in hundreds of comic books and graphic novels over the years as well as various films and animated series
PJ Maybe, a recurring villain from Judge Dredd
Junior Roark, aka That Yellow Bastard, a sadistic pedophile, and the mute cannibal Kevin from Sin City by Frank Miller
Cornelius Stirk, a cannibalistic serial killer with psychic powers in the DC Universe
Zsasz, from titles in the DC Universe
Shredder from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

[edit] Movies

Roy Burns from Friday the 13th: A New Beginning
John Doe from Se7en
Freddy Krueger from the Nightmare on Elm Street series of horror films and the American television series Freddy's Nightmares
Leatherface from The Texas Chain Saw Massacre movie
Michael Myers from the Halloween films
Ghostface from the Scream trilogy.
Uncle Charlie from Shadow of a Doubt
Charles Lee Ray Lakeshore Strangler (Chucky) from Child's Play films
Robert Rusk from Frenzy
Drayton Sawyer from the first two of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre films
Captain Spaulding, Otis B. Driftwood, and Baby from the movies House of 1000 Corpses and The Devil's Rejects
Mick Taylor from the film Wolf Creek
Sid 6.7 from Virtuosity
Pamela Voorhees from the original Friday the 13th
Jason Voorhees in all but two of Friday the 13th films
Scorpio from Dirty Harry
Richie Gecko from From Dusk Till Dawn

John Ryder from The Hitcher
Jigsaw/John Kramer from the movies Saw and its sequels Saw II and Saw III.
Simon Cartwright from the New Zealand film The Ugly
Garland Greene from the action blockbuster Con Air
Kazuo Kiriyama from the Japanese cult film Battle Royale
Lucas Harper from the action movie Mindhunters
Patrick Bateman from the movie American Psycho
The Gemini Killer from the movie The Exorcist III
Miguel Solera de Lara from the book and movie of the same name O Xangô de Baker Street by Jô Soares.
"Billy" from the original Black Christmas (1974 film)

[edit] Television

Clifford Banks, "The Street Sweeper," from the second season of the television series Murder One
Richard Hillman from the British soap opera Coronation Street
Chris Keller from the TV Drama series Oz
Toby Mills from the TV show Hollyoaks
Eugene Victor Tooms from the series The X-Files
John Lee Roche from the series The X-Files
Edward and Tubbs Tattsyrup from the series The League of Gentlemen.
Moonface, an albino serial killer, from Incident On and Off a Mountain Road, an episode of Masters of Horror.
Flippy from the internet and television series Happy Tree Friends
Paul Milander from the TV Series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Dexter Morgan from the TV Series Dexter He is an organized and missionary type serial killer who kills in a well planned manner whose victims are criminals.
Brian or 'the ice-truck killer' from the TV series Dexter (TV series) He is an organized serial killer with a limb fetish. He works in prosthetics.
Sylar from the TV series Heroes. He has a "hunger" to kill anyone with superpowers and steal their abilities.
Theodore "T-Bag" Bagwell , a convicted pedophile serial killer from the TV series Prison Break
Howard Epps from the TV series Bones. Kills young, blonde girls.
Patrick Pewterschmidt, The Fat Guy Strangler, from Family Guy
The Miniature Killer on CBS' CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.