Inside the Head of an Aging Serial Killer
A new story collection from Kim Young-ha complicates the trope of the relatable murderer and, in the process, puts the reader in a quandary.
When Jeff Lindsay first wrote his Dexter novels, about a blood-spatter analyst who kills bad people in his spare time, he unintentionally kicked off a modern love affair with the fictionalized serial killer. In the years following Dexter Morgan’s televised debut on Showtime, humanizing portrayals of murderous antiheroes have increased. There’s the protagonist of , whose artistic drew an FBI agent to him. In a slightly different mold, there’s John Tavner of Amazon’s , a traumatized hitman who bungles jobs and would rather play music, and the titular character of HBO’s , a reluctant gun for hire who just wants to act; these killers take
