ABSTRACT
Psychology and literary fiction have been partners in trying to penetrate the minds of murderous individuals, in their own specific ways. This chapter uses the LM to analyze the “manifesto” of the Virginia Tech murderer—Seung-Hui Cho—and a play that he wrote, both in psychological and in literary terms, so as to gain insights into a murderous mind. It then maps our analysis against the actions of the fictitious crime boss in the film Pulp Fiction (1994), where swear words can be used as part of a stylometric signature providing access to the paranoid minds of murderous characters.
