Fandom: The Hannibal Series
Pairing: Hannibal/Clarice
Categories: future, kid!fic, horror, thriller, mystery
Length: epic (the series)
Warnings: um...it's a Hannibal fanfic? Expect violence and some physical and mental abuse.
Author on LJ: n/a
Website: Kurt GW @ ff.net
Author's Summary: Clarice Starling awakens from Dr. Lecter's hypnosis, only to rediscover what her life was like with him. Alternate Strings is an 'alternate sequel to Daddy's Girl, which assumes that Clarice Starling escaped the GD eleven years ago with her daughter now her peace is threatened.
Review:
FBI agent Clarice Starling wakes up to a life where she is married to the good doctor and they have a daughter together.
Are you creeped out yet?
Although the premise seems far fetched for those familiar with the movie series, the third book (chronologically) actually ends with Lecter and Clarice going to the opera together in Buenos Aires. In essence, Lecter replaces his baby sister (Mischa; the one who died in Europe as a child and was cannibalized) with Clarice, and the readers are led to believe the two live happily (twisted) ever after.
Without giving away too much of the plot, I'm just going to say that the author does a wonderful job at creating a dark and tense atmosphere and it sure beats watching Scream/Saw/most movies of that genre any day -- if you are that way inclined, that is.
Daddy's Girl (ff.net)
Alternate Strings (ff.net)
Kurt GW is a very prolific writer in the Hannibal fandom, but please keep in mind that her other stories are a lot more gory and violent than the two rec'd.
Comments
Those two stories are better than their predecessors, at least in my own opinion. By then I'd written a lot more, so obviously there's that. "Daddy's Girl" almost wrote itself over about a week in August 2003. It's one of my shorter works in terms of length, and also in space (it takes place over only a few hours, really.)
"Alternate Strings" was actually kicked off by a comment one of the readers had made on Dr. Lecter's Basement, saying she would wonder what would have happened if Clarice had made it out of the house. See, it's good to comment: sometimes you might get an entire story out of it!
Also, I now have a daughter of my own, born in 2005, and it's interesting to see the actual of a little girl's daddy worship. (Which leads me to one other small thing: above refers to me as "she" -- I'm male.