The Serial Killer Trope | Empathy for the Devil

Why are people so obsessed with stories about serial killers? We often turn to the serial killer story to make us feel better -- by humanizing these monsters, letting us comprehend what made them this way, or perhaps helping us figure out how to avoid them. But at its best, this kind of story confronts us with how there may not be any good explanation, or asks what it says about us that we would ever want to empathize with this agent of evil. Here’s our Take on the Serial Killer trope and why we’re drawn to stories that just might expose the monster in us.

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