My skin was crawling by Page 7. It's been 13 years since Thomas Harris last published a novel, but in Cari Mora the creator of Hannibal Lecter shows us he still knows how to send ice down our ...

MIAMI — Thomas Harris, the creator of one of literature’s most terrifying monsters, arguably has one of the darkest imaginations of any writer working today.

Harris, whose novels include “Black Sunday,” “Hannibal” and “Red Dragon,” is releasing a new novel this year titled “Cari Mora” — his first book in 13 years, and the first time ...

Thomas Harris’s book came at a pivotal moment: One of the last smash hits of the ’90s, it was also one of the first big releases of the hyper-speed, hyper-opinionated internet era.

Cari Mora, the long-awaited novel by Thomas Harris, follows the titular immigrant as she works in a Florida house of horrors once owned by the late Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar.

Ron Charles reviews "Cari Mora" by Thomas Harris, the latest novel from the author of "The Silence of the Lambs" and the creator of Hannibal Lecter. (Video: REF:charlesra/The Washington Post ...

Step aside, Hannibal Lecter … for now. In his first nightmarish thriller in 13 years, "The Silence of the Lambs" author Thomas Harris has created a new murderous psychopath who will further make ...

Harris is deeply private, but he’s not a recluse in the mold of JD Salinger or Thomas Pynchon. When he’s not writing, he draws, cooks elaborate meals and has dinner with friends.

Four decades ago, Thomas Harris invented the serial killer thriller and—fittingly, perhaps—trapped himself in a dungeon of his own design. Serial killers had occasionally cropped up in fiction ...

Thomas Harris did not invent the serial killer novel, but he elevated it. His best work — for me, that would be the interconnected novels “Red Dragon” and “The Silence of the Lambs ...