Zombie / Joyce Carol Oates

He is a problem for his father, who is a professor, and his loving mother, though of course they don’t believe the charge (sexual abuse of a minor) that got him into this trouble. He is a challenge to his court-appointed psychiatrist, who is however encouraged by the increasingly positive quality of his dreams and his openness to talk about them. He is a thoroughly sweet young man to his wealthy grandmother, who gives him more and more and can deny him less and less. He is the most believable and terrifying sexual psychopath and murderer ever brought to life in fiction.