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The Dark Tower series: Stephen King: 1978–2012 [51] Dr. Hannibal Lecter: Red Dragon: Thomas Harris: 1981 [9] Roland Deschain: The Dark Tower series: Stephen King: 1982–2012 [9] Francis “Frank” Cauldhame The Wasp Factory: Iain Banks: 1984 [14] Dr. Hannibal Lecter: The Silence of the Lambs: Thomas Harris: 1988 [9] Geralt of Rivia: The ...
Dark Romanticism is a literary sub-genre of Romanticism, reflecting popular fascination with the irrational, the demonic and the grotesque. Often conflated with Gothic fiction , it has shadowed the euphoric Romantic movement ever since its 18th-century beginnings.
The dark triad is a psychological theory of personality, first published by Delroy L. Paulhus and Kevin M. Williams in 2002, [1] that describes three notably offensive, but non-pathological personality types: Machiavellianism, sub-clinical narcissism, and sub-clinical psychopathy.
In the view of Jared Shurin, grimdark fantasy has three key components: a grim and dark tone, a sense of realism (for example, monarchs are useless and heroes are flawed), and the agency of the protagonists: whereas in high fantasy everything is predestined and the tension revolves around how the heroes defeat the Dark Lord, grimdark is ...
Say hello to the dark empath, who mixes the traits of the dark triad with an ability to understand others’ emotions. First up is to beware of the dark triad cluster of personality traits ...
The paper titled "The Dark Core of Personality" introduced a theoretical framework to understand various "dark traits" in personality as manifestations of a single underlying factor called the Dark Factor of Personality. This factor represents a general dispositional tendency where individuals prioritize their own utility (self-interest) at the ...
A sub-genre of noir fiction has been named "rural noir" in the US, [15] [16] and sometimes "outback noir" in Australia. [17] [18] Many rural noir novels have been adapted for film and TV series in both countries, such as Ozark, No Country for Old Men, [15] and Big Sky in the US, [19] and Troppo, The Dry, Scrublands, [17] and High Country (2024) in Australia.
Psychopaths, manipulators and sadists all have this in common