Is hannibal lecter a cannibal

• Hannibal Lecter, the character from The Silence of the Lambs, was not directly based on a real-life cannibalistic killer but inspired by a real-life surgeon.
• The character of Hannibal Lecter was inspired by Dr. Alfredo Ballí Treviño, a Mexican doctor who murdered his colleague and buried the dismembered body in his aunt's backyard.
• While Thomas Harris potentially drew inspiration from various real-life serial killers, such as Ted Bundy and Ed Kemper, the character of Hannibal Lecter is a combination of different elements and not representative of any one particular murderer.

The novel wraps with the Tooth Fairy attacking Will at Lecter’s instruction, disfiguring the retired agent’s face before being killed. The attack seems to appease Lecter for the inconvenience of his incarceration; he does not go after Will again. For his part, Will’s character does not reappear in the novels, and is mentioned in a later book as a ruined drunk with a face that looked like “Picasso drew on it.”

In 2000, Red Dragon was re-released with a great introduction in which Harris remembers staying in his friend’s cabin, out in the middle of nowhere while he worked on the novel. Apparently he spent the bulk of his time wandering around open fields accompanied by a pack of half wild dogs he had taken in.

Interestingly, what he described sounds a lot like a scene from Will’s life in the Hannibal TV series.

The Silence of the Lambs (1988), by Thomas Harris

The sequel to Red Dragon follows an almost identical plot device. Only this time, since Will’s utter ruination, Crawford de

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