Bøker av Mark Seltzer

Using crime as his canvas, this work offers an analysis of how cultural fantasies, fears, and desires have blurred the distinction between fiction and real event, from Edgar Allan Poe's detective stories up to Patricia Highsmith's ambiguous "Ripley" and the rash of reality TV shows.

Seltzer draws upon popular sources, scholarly analyses, and the language of psychoanalysis to explore the uniquely modern phenomenon that is the serial killer.