[Commlist] CFC: Serial Killers: Fact into fiction

Urgent chapters are required for an upcoming collection, contracted to 
Peter Lang, Oxford. From existing chapters, this edited collection 
already clearly represents the areas of fact, fiction, and “inspired 
by”, with specific consideration to (fictional) serial killers, mass 
murderers, and their real-life counterparts.

At present, there are one or two areas of the collection that still 
require chapters – these will need to be delivered by 30 November 2026. 
Finished chapters should be approximately 2,500 words. I am welcoming 
abstracts of 250 words in the first instance, with no set deadline for 
abstract submissions – abstracts will be considered on a rolling basis 
until the chapter spaces are filled.
Proposals would be welcome in the following areas:

- Cinema, psychopathy, and social commentary - Indian true crime cinema, 
and - Celebrity serial killers, myth-making, and cinema portrayals, 
suggestions for which are detailed below:
      o	Denise Mina’s The Long Drop (inspired by the crimes of Peter 
Manuel)
      o	James Ellroy’s The Black Dahlia (inspired by the unsolved 
murder of Elizabeth Short)
      o	Emma Cline’s The Girls (inspired by the Charles Manson family 
murders)
      o	Jeff Lindsay’s Dexter series (inspired by Pedro Rodrigues Filho)
      o	Joyce Carol Oates’s Zombie (believed to be inspired by Jeffrey 
Dahmer)

Questions that researchers might consider are:
- Does the medium influence the narrative? What significant differences 
exist between written and filmic representations of killer narratives?
- How are matters of mental health communicated through these 
representations and re-presentations of killer narratives?
- How – or perhaps, are – matters of ethnicity considered in these 
written and filmic representations? Are publications in this area 
“white-washed”, and if so, what is the potential impact of this?
- Is Western culture dominating the market in producing serial killer 
narratives, of fact and/or fiction? Is there a potential cause and 
impact of such a market dominance?
- Fiction often mirrors real-life, but what instances are there of 
real-life mirroring fiction? Has fiction – either written or visual – 
been cited as the cause or stimulus behind real-life murders/serial 
murders having taken place?
Please send abstracts and a short biographical note to Dr Charlotte 
Barnes: (c.barnes /at/ worc.ac.uk). Please use the subject heading “Serial 
Killers: Fact into fiction”.


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