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...vampiric appeal. "I think vampires are very dark, and women have a tendency to want to save them," says Feehan. After Bram Stoker, Anne Rice and Joss Whedon (who created the venerated Buffy the Vampire Slayer), Feehan is the person most credited with popularizing the neck gripper as bodice ripper. A fiftysomething grandmother from north of San Francisco, she has written 30 books since 1998 about the Carpathians, an undead race of mainly men, and their struggle to find undying love. Her books are not about lust, she says. "The appeal is the love of family and hope in very...
...mustache, "psychotic" eyes--led to nothing at first. And BTK was cocky enough to think he could get away with it. Run-of-the-mill criminals don't become pen pals with the press and the police. But BTK became a murderer-correspondent in the mold of Jack the Ripper and California's Zodiac Killer, who was still at large when BTK started his spree. In 1978, apparently frustrated by a lack of media attention, BTK wrote to a local TV station, asking, "How many do I have to kill before I get my name in the paper...
...that former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, who was indicted by the U.N. war-crimes tribunal for genocide in 1995, has used his many years on the run to focus on the gentler art of writing romance novels. The so-called Butcher of Bosnia penned a 416-page bodice ripper titled Miraculous Chronicles of the Night that quickly sold out all 1,200 copies...
...From Hell by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell (Top Shelf; 2000) Alan Moore, who became famous for his sophisticated superhero tales, put all of his considerable comic-writing skill into this re-telling of the Jack the Ripper murders as a mystic ritual covered up by the Queen. The mediocre movie version suffered particularly from its lack of Eddie Campbell's masterful black and white images that perfectly conjure up the fog-shrouded streets of gaslight London. Full Review
...standing at the checkout line, declaring that you can’t buy that package of Ho-Hos because you’re three times your target body weight. Waiting in line last Monday to see the abomination that was Intolerable Cruelty, I was held up by a ticket ripper who wouldn’t let a teenager get into Lost in Translation, despite the fact that her nearby mother was insisting she could see the film...