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A chilling, retrospective look at the mundane high school days of a future monster, steeped in creeping dread and the tragic failure of the adults who looked the other way. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with My Friend Dahmer.
- dread-soaked
- unsettling
- melancholic
- mundane-yet-sinister
- 01
A father's story
Lionel Dahmer
A harrowing, deeply uncomfortable descent into the mind of a father searching for the origins of his son's monstrous acts.
- 02
Mindhunter
John E. Douglas and Mark Olshaker
A chilling, clinical descent into the darkest corners of the human psyche, guided by the man who learned to think like a monster.
- 03
I am not a serial killer
Dan Wells
A chillingly pragmatic dive into the mind of a teenage sociopath trying desperately to be the good guy.
- 04
The shrine of Jeffrey Dahmer
Brian Masters · 1993
A chilling, erudite descent into the darkest, most isolated corners of a fractured human mind.
- 05
The Devil's Only Friend
Dan Wells
A darkly thrilling, blood-spattered game of cat-and-mouse where the only thing scarier than the monsters is the sociopath hunting them.
- 06
The Stranger Beside Me
Ann Rule
A chilling, intimate descent into the sickening realization that a trusted friend is actually a monster.
- 07
My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, vol 1
Emil Ferris
An obsessive, ballpoint-pen diary that uses B-movie horror tropes to explore the very real monsters of history and human nature.
- 08
The last victim
Jason M. Moss · 1999
A chilling, claustrophobic descent into the minds of monsters, told by a student who flew too close to the sun.
- 09
Columbine
Dave Cullen
A gripping, myth-shattering psychological autopsy of a tragedy that reads with the relentless tension of a thriller.
- 10
Monster
Walter Dean Myers
A claustrophobic, structurally inventive descent into the justice system that forces you to question the nature of truth and identity.
- 11
The Devil in the White City
Erik Larson · 2003
A mesmerizing descent into the Gilded Age where the pinnacle of human achievement casts the darkest of shadows.
- 12
Johnny the Homicidal Maniac
Jhonen Vasquez
A frantic, blood-soaked plunge into the mind of a hyperactive misanthrope, fueled by pitch-black comedy and existential dread.
