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“Live by the pen…die by it too.”
Lord, please, let me keep my damn mouth shut….
Live by the pen,
Die by the pen,
But don’t fall in.
The hogs won’t leave anything but your head and pig poop.
“Someone is killing famous authors by the methods in their stories.”
There is a trope of a killer killing people copying methods in an author’s stories.
In Robert Bloch’s novel “Strange Eons” (1978) people are killed by methods described in H.P. Lovecraft’s stories.
In the film “The Raven” (2012) people are killed by methods described in Edgar Allan Poe’s stories.
It could become a genre.
There’s Basic Instinct, too, IIRC (though the author there was fictional).
Theater of Blood, for Shakespeare-plot-inspired offings, anyone?
Nothing can beat THE ABOMINABLE DR. PHIBES, in which Vincent Price kills people in ways that mimic the plagues of Egypt. Just cuz.
The Phibes movies were awesome. Horror + Dry British humor.
The TV show “Castle” started like this.
In The Bone Collector (1997 Book and 1999 Movie), a killer is killing people via methods used in a fictional book also called The Bone Collector.
Wow. It is an established subgenre already.
Someone could issue a dvd set. “Ala Murder Mysteries”
But I’m not sure I want to see it done to death.