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Thomas Harris is an American author of contemporary fiction, with a focus on horror and thriller genres.

Born in Jackson, Tennessee, and raised in Rich, Mississippi, he majored in English at Baylor University in Waco, graduating in 1964.

Harris worked for the Waco Tribune-Herald, a local newspaper, and also lent his services to Associated Press. He also wrote gothic tales for magazines such as Argosy and True.

With the experience gained as a reporter and editor following crime beat in the U. S and Mexico, Harris ventured into fiction writing, publishing Black Sunday, his debut novel, in 1975

His book The Silence of the Lambs was adapted into a major motion picture, not only becoming a blockbuster but also attaining several Academy Awards.

All four books in his Hannibal Lecter Series have been adapted into films.

More about Thomas Harris

Genres: Horror, Thriller

Born: 1940

United States

Non Series

  • Black Sunday (1975)
  • Cari Mora (2019)

Hannibal Lecter

  1. Red Dragon (1981)
  2. The Silence of the Lambs (1988)
  3. Hannibal (1999)
  4. Hannibal Rising (2006)

Detailed book overview

Non Series

Black Sunday

It’s the event of the year. Eighty thousand fans have converged in New Orleans for Super Bowl Sunday. Among them is a young man named Michael Lander. But he has not come to watch the game.

A tool for a radical terrorist group, he’s has come to play one. To enact revenge. To feed the rage of others. And the whole world will be watching.

Unless someone stops him. But first, they have to find him.

Author: Thomas Harris
First Release: 1975
ISBN: 978-0451217417
Publisher: Berkley
Cari Mora

Twenty-five million dollars in cartel gold lies hidden beneath a mansion on the Miami Beach waterfront. Ruthless men have tracked it for years. Leading the pack is Hans-Peter Schneider. Driven by unspeakable appetites, he makes a living fleshing out the violent fantasies of other, richer men.

Cari Mora, caretaker of the house, has escaped from the violence in her native country. She stays in Miami on a wobbly Temporary Protected Status, subject to the iron whim of ICE. She works at many jobs to survive. Beautiful, marked by war, Cari catches the eye of Hans-Peter as he closes in on the treasure. But Cari Mora has surprising skills, and her will to survive has been tested before.

Author: Thomas Harris
First Release: 2019
ISBN: 978-1538750124
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing

Hannibal Lecter

Red Dragon

Feed your fears with the terrifying classic that introduced cannibalistic serial killer Hannibal Lecter.

FBI agent Will Graham once risked his sanity to capture Hannibal Lecter, an ingenious killer like no other. Now, he’s following the bloodstained pattern of the Tooth Fairy, a madman who’s already wiped out two families.

To find him, Graham has to understand him. To understand him, Graham has only one place left to go: the mind of Dr. Lecter.

Manhunter
Director: Michael Mann
Cast: William Petersen, Kim Greist, Joan Allen, Brian Cox, Dennis Farina, Stephen Lang, Tom Noonan
Author: Thomas Harris
First Release: 1981
ISBN: 978-0425228227
Publisher: Berkley
The Silence of the Lambs

A serial murderer known only by a grotesquely apt nickname--Buffalo Bill--is stalking women. He has a purpose, but no one can fathom it, for the bodies are discovered in different states. Clarice Starling, a young trainee at the FBI Academy, is surprised to be summoned by Jack Crawford, chief of the Bureau's Behavioral Science section. Her assignment: to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter--Hannibal the Cannibal--who is kept under close watch in the Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane.

Dr. Lecter is a former psychiatrist with a grisly history, unusual tastes, and an intense curiosity about the darker corners of the mind. His intimate understanding of the killer and of Clarice herself form the core of this ingenious and masterfully written book.

The Silence of the Lambs
Director: Jonathan Demme
Cast: Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn, Ted Levine
Author: Thomas Harris
First Release: 1988
ISBN: 978-0312195267
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Hannibal

You remember Hannibal Lecter: gentleman, genius, cannibal. Seven years have passed since Dr. Lecter escaped from custody. And for seven years he’s been at large, free to savor the scents, the essences, of an unguarded world.

But intruders have entered Dr. Lecter’s world, piercing his new identity, sensing the evil that surrounds him. For the multimillionaire Hannibal left maimed, for a corrupt Italian policeman, and for FBI agent Clarice Starling, who once stood before Lecter and who has never been the same, the final hunt for Hannibal Lecter has begun. 

All of them, in their separate ways, want to find Dr. Lecter. And all three will get their wish. But only one will live long enough to savor the reward...

Hannibal
Director: Ridley Scott
Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Julianne Moore, Ray Liotta, Frankie R. Faison, Giancarlo Giannini, Francesca Neri, Gary Oldman
Author: Thomas Harris
First Release: 1999
ISBN: 978-0385339483
Publisher: Delta
Hannibal Rising

He is one of the most haunting characters in all of literature. At last the evolution of his evil is revealed.

Hannibal Lecter emerges from the nightmare of the Eastern Front, a boy in the snow, mute, with a chain around his neck.

He seems utterly alone, but he has brought his demons with him.

Hannibal’s uncle, a noted painter, finds him in a Soviet orphanage and brings him to France, where Hannibal will live with his uncle and his uncle’s beautiful and exotic wife, Lady Murasaki.

Lady Murasaki helps Hannibal to heal. With her help he flourishes, becoming the youngest person ever admitted to medical school in France.

But Hannibal’s demons visit him and torment him. When he is old enough, he visits them in turn.

He discovers he has gifts beyond the academic, and in that epiphany, Hannibal Lecter becomes death’s prodigy.

Hannibal Rising
Director: Peter Webber
Cast: Gaspard Ulliel, Gong Li, Rhys Ifans, Dominic West
Author: Thomas Harris
First Release: 2006
ISBN: 978-0099532958
Publisher: Arrow Books