“Fans of perhaps the world’s best-known cannibal won’t have to wait much longer: seven years after the publication of ‘Hannibal,’ Thomas Harris has finally delivered a new novel featuring Dr. Hannibal Lecter, the serial killer most famously memorialized on film by Anthony Hopkins. In a last-minute addition to its holiday-season list, Delacorte Press, an imprint of the Bantam Dell Publishing Group, is expected to announce today that it will publish ‘Hannibal Rising’ on Dec. 5.”