#dexter jeff lindsay

[mattiebluebird]

Book!Harry: i know you're a good person, son. you have these dark urges but it's not your fault. you'd never hurt an innocent person.

Book!Dexter, covered in blood: alright dad

Show!Dexter: idk i just think prom is kind of lame

Show!Harry: that's because you're an inhuman monster who will definitely grow up to be a serial killer, you psychopath

[psychicpinenut]

No blood at all. I could hear that phrase repeat itself in my head, louder each time. No sticky, hot, messy, awful blood. No splatter. No stain. NO BLOOD AT ALL. Why hadn't I thought of that? Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay // Dexter (2006)

[sonofcelluloid]

The Dexter books be like: There is a darkness in me ever on the precipice of spilling out and devouring my world into nothingness. The sandwich I had for lunch was delicious. I usually do not stray from my regular order, but they were running a special, and I’m so glad I did. I suspect the police may not believe the story I told them, as I have noticed a Buick following me for the third consecutive day. The sandwich had ham, roast pork, melted swiss cheese, pickles, and mustard. I’m hesitant to go home because I fear my hot wife may try to fuck me.

[televisionhistorian]

ARGHHH so…

There are thousands of pop culture articles about “the real life serial killer that inspired Dexter” and it’s just so incorrect!

so these articles often site a brazilian serial killer that focused on killing other killers and following a similar code to Dexter

But (and huge But) Dexter is based off the novel series by author Jeff Lindsay to which he has never referenced this aforementioned brazilian serial killer.

When asked about the true origins of the Dexter character Jeff Lindsay has sited being at an insufferable white collar business event to which he thought to himself “i wanna kill everyone here” which lead him down a psychological psychopath rabbit hole and how seemingly normal people can turn out to be killers. Yeah he did a bunch of researched and interviewed a bunch of criminal psychologists and sat down with killers too but it still remains there is no actual credible link between the brazilian guy and the television Dexter.

Jeff Lindsay in multiple interviews says that Dexter doesn’t mean anything it’s just a bunch of books who cares. but yeah i just hate seeing screen rant or any of those push out an article at all costs websites that don’t do any actual research other than an initial google

[mattsturniolosmuse]

Father Dexter

Dexter Morgan x Daughter! Reader

Summary: You are Dexter's daughter, 17 years old. Your mother gets murdered, and Dexter is there to calm you and protect you from further harm.

Warnings: Swearing, gore

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*8 years earlier*

Blood. It was everywhere.

Staining your skirt, splattering your face.

Your mother, lies in the middle of it all. Her body parts strewn across the room. Her arm on one side, near the wall. Her leg by the couch. Her head resting just 1 foot away from you.

"Dad!" You scream. "Daddy!"

You sit there for hours. Hours, that seemed like days. The coppery blood dried to your face.

"Y/N, I'm home." Your dad calls from the foyer. He enters the room with a smile, holding a bouqet of lilies. Your favourite.

You begin to sob as your father calls the Miami Metro Department.

He picks you up, wrapping his arms around you protectively.

"It's OK, my angel, Aunt Deborah is on her way." He says, stroking your hair.

He carries you to the kitchen, wetting a cloth in warm water. He wipes your face gently, tears pouring down his face.

"Let's go change." Dexter says. You slip off your skirt, and Dexter puts it in a large zip lock bag. You take your shirt off. Dexter lays out some jeans and a pink sweater.

"Change, sweetheart." He says. You do.

🔪♥ 🔪♥🔪

*Present day*

"Dad? I'm going out with Joel." You call down the hallway towards the direction of your fathers bedroom.

"Hold up." He calls back. You lean on your door frame. He takes a look at what you're wearing. A nice dress, modest, though. It was down to your knees, and hugged your waist nicely. It was a halter top, showing no cleavage. Your father was strict that way.

"You look nice, my angel." He says, pulling you into a hug.

"You know the drill. No strangers, call me when you get there, if you want to leave just text me and I'll come and pick you up." He says, looking at you again.

"You're growing up. You've got a boyfriend." Dexter says, tears in his eyes.

"You can drink alcohol in less than a month, for god sake!" He says. You nod and smile.

"Bye, dad." You say, kissing his cheek.

"Bye, kid." He says. He watches with sad eyes as you get into Joel's truck. He's tried to protect you as much as he could.

The day your mother died was one of the worst days of his life. He vowed to hunt down the man who killed your mother and kill him. And so, he had found him, and it was going to happen tonight. Tonight was the night.

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Dexter watches as the man leaves the bar, waving bye to a few friends. The man was a lot thicker than he was in his photo, with tattoos covering his arms and legs.

Dexter had hid himself in the back of the guy's car. When the guy got in, Dexter wrapped a metal wire around his throat.

"Go where I tell you. Or else I'll kill you." Dexter says to him, voice deep and unrecognizable.

The man follows Dexter's directions, and they arrive at their destination. An old fisherman's shack, that hasn't been used for 6 years.

Dexter followed his routine, injecting poison into the man, knocking him out. He laid him flat on the table, wrapping Saran wrap around his body, securing him to the table. Now, he just had to wait.

A few minutes later, the man gained consciousness, his eyes opening and closing due to the bright light. When he finally got used to it, Dexter spoke.

"Hey there." Dexter said, standing over him with a rigged knife. The man's eyes widen.

"What? What did I do? What do you want from me?" He asks. Dexter chuckles, shaking his head.

"Your life. You killed my wife. Which killed my daughters spirit. She was going to be an actress, you know. Until you killed her mother." Dexter says, slicing the knife into his cheek, drawing blood and dropping it onto a file.

"Who? I don't know what you're talking about." The man says, blood dripping down his cheek.

"Oh, I think you do." Dexter says, stepping aside so the man could see the photos of your mother. The man's eyes widen, his veins popping in his neck.

"She deserved it, that bitch. I am not sorry." The man said, full of venom.

"Good. Well, I don't regret this." Dexter says, swinging a butcher knife down on the man's neck, slicing his head clean off. Dexter smiles as the blood splatters over his front.

A small squeak snaps him back to reality. He looks up, bewildered, towards the front of the shack, seeing you, his beloved daughter, standing there, purse in hand, eyes wide at the mess in front of you.

"Oh my fucking God." You tremble, as you stare at the bloody mess and your father.

"Shit. Angel, it's not what it looks like." Dexter says, pulling you into a hug, coating your front in blood.

"How'd you find me?" He asks you.

"Well, you forgot to turn off your location, I guess." You say, not peeling your eyes away from the dead body. He seemed odly familiar.

"Dad, who is that?" You ask, stepping closer to the dead body. You examine his face.

"Well, it's the man who killed your mother." Dexter says, following you. It suddenly snapped into place.

The man's face, a sinister smile from ear to ear, as he forced you to watch him slice your mother's arms off, followed by her legs and head.

You start to cry. Sob.

Dexter pulls you into a hug.

"I'm sorry, angel." He says, kissing your head. You sob into his shoulder.

"You? You're the bay harbor butcher?" You snivel, looking at him.

"Yeah. God, I hate that name." He says, rubbing his face.

"But you have to understand that I only kill those who have killed others before." Dexter says to you. You nod.

"Please, angel, you cannot tell anyone." Dexter says, hugging you again.

"Can I help you next time?" You ask, genuinely. Dexter pauses.

"Of course you can." He whispers.

[mossgloam]

Michael C. Hall in Dexter. Clyde Phillips. Showtime. 2006.

so thrilled our boy is back… 🩸

[brokehorrorfan]

Dexter: Music from the Showtime Original Series will be released on vinyl on December 6 via Real Gone Music. The 2xLP album is pressed on Blood Red with White Swirl colored vinyl, limited to 1,500, with a gatefold jacket.

It features the main title theme composed by Rolfe Kent (Mean Girls, Wedding Crashers), several cues from composer Daniel Licht (Thinner, Hellraiser: Bloodline), three spoken word tracks by actor Michael C. Hall, and songs from Andy Williams, Mambo All Stars, Ray Armando, and more.

[draculovemp3]

This is not self-pity but the coldest, clearest self-knowledge. I am unlovable. Following Harry's plan, I have tried to involve myself in other people, in relationships, and even—in my sillier moments—in love. But it doesn't work. Something in me is broken or missing, and sooner or later the other person catches me Acting, or one of Those Nights comes along.

I can't even keep pets. Animals hate me. I bought a dog once; it barked and howled—at me—in a nonstop no-mind fury for two days before I had to get rid of it. I tried a turtle. I touched it once and it wouldn't come out of its shell again, and after a few days of that it died. Rather than see me or have me touch it again, it died.

Nothing else loves me, or ever will. Not even—especially—me. I know what I am and that is not a thing to love. I am alone in the world, all alone, but for Deborah. Except, of course, for the Thing inside, who does not come out to play too often. And does not actually play with me but must have somebody else.

— Jeff Lindsay, Darkly Dreaming Dexter

[lovequotesandcoffee]

Whatever made me the way I am left me hollow, empty inside, unable to feel. It doesn't seem like a big deal. I'm quite sure most people fake an awful lot of everyday human contact. I just fake it all. I fake it very well, and the feelings are never there.

Jeff Lindsay, Darkly Dreaming Dexter.

[elisnotavailable]

The Dexter series is wild. Like what do you mean he found his brother in a storage container with his sister Deborah and almost killed her, killed the detective, and Deb was fine with it?? This didn’t happen in the show???

[musician-not-magician]

August Books

I used 🌈 to indicate LGBTQ+ featured characters within the book. I rated each book from ⭐️ - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️. The books are listed in the order that I completed them.

“Demon Copperhead” by Barbara Kingsolver ⭐️⭐️⭐️ • 🌈

“The Blacktongue Thief” by Christopher Buehlman ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ • 🌈

“Renfield” by Barbara Hambly ⭐️⭐️

“Steep Trails” by John Muir ⭐️⭐️⭐️

“Dark Tales” by Shirley Jackson ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

“The Time of Contempt” by Andrzej Sapkowski ⭐️⭐️⭐️ • 🌈

“To Shape a Dragon’s Breath” by Moniquill Blackgoose ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ • 🌈

“The Old Man and the Sea” by Ernest Hemingway ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

“The Darkening” by Sunya Mara ⭐️⭐️⭐️

“The Little Prince” by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

“Faebound” by Saara El-Arifi ⭐️⭐️ • 🌈

“A Game of Thrones” by George R.R. Martin ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

“Darkly Dreaming Dexter” by Jeff Lindsay ⭐️⭐️⭐️

“The Handmaid’s Trail” by Margaret Atwood ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

“Baptism of Fire” by Andrzej Sapkowski ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ • 🌈

“The Burning God” by R. F. Kuang ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

“The Wicked King” by Holly Black ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ • 🌈

“The Lightstruck” by Sunya Mara ⭐️⭐️

“For Whom the Bell Tolls” by Ernest Hemingway ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

“The Tower of Swallows” by Andrzej Sapkowski ⭐️⭐️⭐️ • 🌈

“Dearly Devoted Dexter” by Jeff Lindsay ⭐️⭐️

“Clytemnestra” by Costanza Casati ⭐️⭐️⭐️ • 🌈

“The Name of the Wind” by Patrick Rothfuss ⭐️⭐️⭐️

[mattiebluebird]

Jeff Lindsay is better than me because if I wrote a best-selling book series and in the 3rd book i finally fleshed out a plot line I'd quite obviously been planning since the very 1st book, only for everyone to absolutely hate it and say it ruined the series, I'd simply stop writing

[psychicpinenut]

DEXTER (2006-2013) → S01E01 - Dexter

[myhikari21things]

Read of Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay (2004) (275pgs)

[televisionhistorian]

Jeff Lindsay the Author of the Dexter which is what the television show is based on is married to Hillary Hemingway, Ernest Hemingways niece

just weird fact small world

[straydog733]

Reading Resolution: "Darkly Dreaming Dexter" by Jeff Lindsay

16. A book you’ve seen adapted: Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay

List Progress: 19/30

When it comes to a guilty pleasure, style is key. Everything related to the Dexter franchise is gory and morally twisted, but the upbeat style of author Jeff Lindsay (and the television show inspired by his books) keeps the story of a vigilante serial killer from being too grim. Darkly Dreaming Dexter, the first book in a series, follows Dexter Morgan, a serial killer who only kills other serial killers. His foster father was a policeman and realized from an early age that Dexter was going to become a killer, so instead of trying to curb that instinct, he instilled a strict moral code within him. Dexter works as a blood splatter analyst with the Miami police, where his foster sister Deb is trying to make her own name and reputation. But Dexter’s rules are challenged when a showy new killer begins staging murder scenes that seem to speak to Dexter and his internal Dark Passenger personally.The book is told in the first person from inside Dexter’s head, so the reader gets to see his perverse amusement and joy at finding another monster like himself, and that is mostly enough to carry the story along, if not quite enough to stick the landing.

An issue that both this book and the television show contend with is that Dexter and his serial killer opponents are the only truly interesting parts of the story. So much attention and care is put into developing Dexter that the people around him end up feeling like caricatures and chess pieces, exactly as stupid as needed to let him keep getting away. When Dexter gets a sort of psychic premonition that leads him to a confrontation with the other killer at four in the morning in an isolated area, literally none of the trained police detectives have any questions about what he was doing there. Detective LaGuerta gets the worst of this, a Cuban woman positioned as an idiotic backbiter with a crush on Dexter seemingly just to play into Spicy Latina stereotypes. The prose keeps saying that his sister Deb is developing into a smart investigator, but her brother is holding her hand every step of the way. Dexter is an interesting character in the middle of a wasteland. 

Enjoying the Dexter franchise involves turning off a lot of parts of your brain, the ones that suspend disbelief and the ones that suspend moral thoughts about vigilantism and justice via retribution. But if a reader can turn those off, Darkly Dreaming Dexter is an undoubtedly fun ride, even with a bit of a rushed ending. Lindsay has a way with atmosphere and action, and the development of a strong narrative voice for Dexter himself. Perhaps later in the series, the world around the star fills out in a more satisfying way, but even without that, it makes sense that audiences keep coming back for more, even across mediums.

Would I Recommend It: Soft yes.