By Tammy Cohen
Love and lust are one of the strongest of feelings, but if joint thirst for violence is thrown into the combo, it creates the last word deadly cocktail. Exploring the lethal dynamic that exists in the relationships of guys and girls whose romantic obsession leads them to devote acts of bloody devastation. comprises case histories from around the globe – a few popular, others whose stunning fact is published for the 1st time. The terrible info of undefined, that had they by no means met could have endured residing 'normal' lives in unremarkable obscurity, yet who've as a substitute acted upon joint sadistic, enormous fantasies.
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The couple were standing away from the rest of the group and talking animatedly in low voices. By now, the other employees were all used to seeing Stephen and Rebecca whispering together. They were both married to other people but you didn’t need to be Sherlock Holmes to work out what was going on between them. Usually there was a lot of flirtatious banter with those two, but tonight both seemed preoccupied with something. Stephen was doing a lot of talking, and Rebecca looked paler than normal, as if she hadn’t been sleeping well.
In the pub after work, or in the car driving home, the conversation would inevitably turn back towards the same subject. Now he’d dropped the talk of killing Ron and his focus was entirely on Jaspal – and how good life could be if she was out of the picture. ‘I just want us to be together,’ Stephen would say, giving her the full force of that ‘special’ look that made her forget about everything else in the world. Things became so intense that Rebecca would almost dread being alone with him, although, paradoxically, this was also what she most craved.
Writing these stories wasn’t easy, but it was grimly fascinating in terms of what it revealed about the secret underbelly of human relationships. I hope reading them provides the same experience. Just make sure you leave the light on! Tammy Cohen INTRODUCTION A14-year-old girl is kept for days as a sex slave, filmed begging for her life and then strangled. Two 8-year-olds are snatched off the street and left to starve in an underground dungeon. A man’s head is staved in with a hammer before he’s stabbed 66 times, his blood collected in a bowl to be drunk.
