Zombie

Summary

Told through the chilling first person journal of Quentin P., a seemingly ordinary handyman, the novel exposes the inner world of a serial killer obsessed with creating an obedient living companion through crude lobotomy. Oates strips away sensationalism to render his banality, delusion, and predatory routine in cold, fragmented prose. The result is a disturbing literary study of evil that draws on real cases to probe how monstrousness can hide in plain sight.