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Hannibal Lecter

August 12, 2026 · 22 min

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In this episode of Compact Biographies, we tell the life story of Hannibal Lecter, the fictional psychiatrist and killer created by Thomas Harris, as though he were a real historical figure. From his childhood in Lithuania and the trauma of war to his medical brilliance, cultivated manners, crimes, imprisonment, encounters with Will Graham and Clarice Starling, and later life as one of fiction's most chilling figures, this is the story of a man whose intelligence, taste, and violence made him unforgettable.

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