People are fascinated by evil because it's mysterious and it doesn't seem to have a rationale behind it, and the second you say that Hannibal Lector was abducted as a child and he had to eat his sister or something like that, it becomes immediately mundane. The character becomes mundane.
“The panic of the Depression loosened my inhibitions against being different. I could be myself.”
“To get the feel of how the slider should roll off of your index finger, use this grip and practice at half speed and roughly half the distance to the mound.”