'The Lost Symbol', Dan Brown’s long-awaited follow-up to 'The Da Vinci Code', sold more than one copy every second in its first five days of release, the publishers said today.

Tom Cruise's United Artists deal makers have acquired the rights to Douglas Preston's serial killer story 'The Monster of Florence' at the Venice Film Festival in Italy.

Hannibal Lecter returns in Hannibal Rising (Momentum, €24.99), a prequel about the serial killer’s early years.

Readers hungry for a good thriller can get ready to welcome an old friend: A new Hannibal Lecter novel, Behind the Mask, is coming next Autumn.

The driver in a minibus crash that killed eight British tourists was not licensed to operate the vehicle, South African officials said tonight.

"It was a daunting prospect, but I think it sort of worked out," veteran British actor Anthony Hopkins says about revisiting Hollywood’s favourite psychopath, Hannibal Lecter, for a third time.

Red Dragon director Brett Ratner says his movie will be faithful to Thomas Harris's book.

The prequel to The Silence of the Lambs could begin production as early as September.

Cinemagoers get their first taste of the latest Hannibal Lecter film as it opens across Ireland today.