Stalking Ottis Toole: A Southern Gothic

Ottis Toole was either one of the worst serial killers in history or a dimwitted arsonist who never meant to kill anyone. Or someone somewhere between. It's hard to tell if Ottis Toole himself knew which Ottis was Ottis.

Tim Gilmore is the author of In Search of Eartha White, The Ocean Highway at Night, Ghost Compost: Strange Little Stories, This Kind of City: Ghost Stories and Psychological Landscapes, and several other books. He teaches literature and composition at Florida State College of Jacksonville. He is the creator of www.jaxpsychogeo.com.