Lee Tourneau

"I'm the one who fixed her cross. She should've been with me."

- Lee Tourneau, about wanting Merrin Williams to be with him in stead of Ig Perrish. "You know what? Love made devils of us both."

- Lee Tourneau to Ignatius "Ig" Perrish.

Lee Tourneau  is a local young lawyer in the small American town of Gideon, New Hampshire, and he is the main antagonist of the 2010 dark fantasy novel Horns by Joe Hill and the 2013 dark fantasy comedy thriller movie adaption of the same name. He is the murderer of Ig Perrish's childhood sweetheart Merrin Williams.

He is portrayed by Max Minghella.

About
Lee was sociopathic child who hated his drug addict mother. At one point in his childhood, he attempted to feed and befriend a stray cat, only to be swatted at, causing him to fall from a fence and hit his head; he is impaled in the head by the spike of a pitchfork and is severely brain damaged; he then undergoes a hallucination in which he perceives things as God would, and kills the cat. When he returns, his mother perceives nothing wrong, not even investigating the cause of his injury but rather only reprimanding him for his blood stained pillow cases. It appears that from this point in time, his personality is changed and he has psychopathic thoughts. During his childhood, Lee was in a relationship with a girl named Glenna and was making friends with Merrin Williams and Ignatius "Ig" Perrish when Ig was saved by Lee from drowning. In actuality, Lee had kicked Ig by accident when he was trying to get away from the snake that actually did save Ig's life. Ig woke up and was under the impression that Lee was patting his back after having saved him. Lee had a criminal record - steeling and robbery as teenager. When Lee fixed Merrin's cross she had left behind, Ig traded the cross for a cherry bomb considering he wanted to give it to her himself. Lee accepts his offer, but when he uses the bomb to explode in a car, it doesn't go off for a while, so Lee walks over to it too closely before it blows up one if it's windows, causing pieced of glass to shatter and scar Lee in one of his eyes, damaging his vision.

As years pasted and Lee is now 26 years old, he has become adviser and aide to a Congressman who is part of the Conservative Christian. His mother has beomce inflicted with dimensia, and so he takes advantage of her weakened state and tortures her to death in order to get closer to Merrin and hopefully have sex with her. Merrin does come closer to him, but as they start to spend more time together, Lee begins to perceives certain "signals" from Merrin that he believes are implications that she wants to break up with Ig and be with him. He officially thinks he's won her over once she tells him she is going to break up with Ig because she's "learned some things about herself". Unbeknownst to Lee, she suffering from a type of cancer her sister had suffered from and wants to break it off with Ig so that he doesn't have to watch her die once they get married and suffer. On the night she broke up with Ig, Lee and Terry pick her up and attmept to drive her over to his house, but she asks them to stop by the tree house she and ig used to hang out in. Lee offers her some clothes of his to keep her warm in the rain, and she accepts them before leaving to go to the tree house. After waiting a while, Terry passes out and Lee meets with Merrin at the treehouse in an attempt to make love with her. She rejects him and states the "signals" she had been sending him were never real. Enraged by this, he strangles her with the tie he gave her, and then rapes and kills her via bashing her in the head with a rock. He then blackmails Terry into helping him cover up her murder by threatening to frame him and Ig for the murder and Terry regretfully agrees to do so.

Ig was determined to find out who murdered her because of his newfound supernatural powers due to his horns.

After Lee admitted that he was the one who murdered Merrin, Ig asked him to join the walk into the woods to the spot where Lee killed her. But at first cooperating, a deceptive Lee trips Eric and grabs the shotgun as he turns on Eric, killing him by shooting point blank in the head and he later shoots Terry in the leg and Ig fights and struggled with Lee. As he prepares to kill Ig, Ig tears off the necklace, and sprouts a pair of angel wings, which causes him to take flight. The wings are soon engulfed by a fire, that also consumes Ig's body, turning him into a demonic creature. Lee shot him but Ig end up uses his preternatural strength to kill Lee by impaling him with his horn sand throws him against a tree. He then used what is left of his supernatural abilities to control snakes to mercilessly kill Lee, putting an end of Lee's madness.

Personality
As result of being neglected by his drug addict mother and later suffering an accident with a stray cat that led to the brain damage, Lee became quite the sociopath. He loathed his mother for her neglect, and later killed her once she was dying from dementia. His rough childhood also turned him into a juvenile delinquent, having stolen and sold various items presumably as a way of venting his seemingly groundless hatred of his mother.

He was also a remarkable master manipulator in spite of having such psychopatic tendencies, as proven when he uses his mother's death as ruse for getting closer with Merrin, and in how he was able to cover his tracks by his framing Ig.