Scariest t-shirt I've ever seen.

I just saw a guy in a Tim Horton's lineup wearing a t-shirt that said:

"I need to engage in homicidal behavior on a massive scale. It can not be corrected but I have no other way to fulfill my needs."

Yikes. Who would wear a shirt like that? From the back he looked a bit scary. Ball hat, grubby jeans, slim, messy hair in a ponytail.

I looked at him as he turned around and he actually had a pleasant face. Young man, early 20s, student I would say.

I glanced around at the other people in the lineup and no one else seemed concerned, or even seemed to have noticed. Maybe they did and were just playing it cool like me.

He didn't look like he had a gun and so I didn't feel in immediate danger, but I did think, "This guy could be a ticking time bomb." Then I thought if you really planned on killing a bunch of people would you wear a shirt advertising the fact?

It would be a funny, sort of sick joke I guess. When he turned further around I was more relieved. The front of the shirt was actually an image from the movie American Psycho. The quote on the back must have been from the movie then. Phew.

That was one scary t-shirt!

Which of my fictional serial killer characters is most creepy?

I want to write a fun, campy and extremely violent horror novel about a serial killer who kills people. Which of the three characters below is the most creepy/weird?

1. Jack Paulson, in his 30s, skinny, a bit of a joker. He's a ventriloquist and has a puppet that looks exactly like him. But it's a puppet. When he kills people, he tortures them and brings out the dummy as the person is dying. Then he has weird conversations with the dummy, who takes on the personality, of an evil, wise-cracking version of Jack Paulson. Jack will be like, "Hey this guy's had enough, let's let him go." The guy will be tied to a chair with a knife stuck in his gut or something. The dummy will be like, "No, cut off his leg!" That kind of thing. The dummy always advocates a brutal, pain-filled death while Jack plays the good guy. The dummy always "wins" the argument.



2. Billy "rockabye" Jean. Early 40s, chubby, fun-loving guy. He goes from town-to-town playing guitar shows for families. His thing is that he always "buys a new guitar" at every town he visits and part of his show is fooling around with the guitar as a sort of comedy routine. The kids love it. His songs are fun, catchy and have lots of audience interactivity. After each show he follow the least enthusiastic audience member home and bludgeons them to death with his guitar - shattering the strings etc.



3. Duane Carlson. He's that shy kid from your high school who you kind of vaguely remember, but not really. Anyway, as an adult he's constructed all these fantasies about how he was abused by bullies in his school and so he goes around killing all his classmates, using his yearbook as a list. As they're dying they beg him for mercy - they don't remember him and apologize for ignoring him as a teenager. He says it's too late and tortures them to death. Just as they're about to expire, he asks them to sign his old yearbook (because no one signed it when he was in grade 12). So they sign it and just before they die they see the signatures of all the other people in their class who've signed his book and are now dead.