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More Macabre Miscellany
Geoffrey Abbott
其他書名
An All New Collection of 1,000 Hideous and Horrifying Facts
出版Virgin Books, 2005
主題History / GeneralJuvenile Nonfiction / History / GeneralTrue Crime / General
ISBN07535102279780753510223
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=Sn4-AAAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋More Macabre Miscellany is simply bursting with gruesome and chilling facts - modern and historic - about crime and punishment, imprisonment and torture, and death by a terrifying range of methods. A foul mix of modern murder and ancient atrocity, it's the blood and guts of world history spattered with the most monstrous of contemporary carnage. Just for tasters: . In 2003, a Bangladeshi woman was killed and swallowed headfirst up to her waist by a loft python as she collected fruit.. Romanian Prince Vlad the Impaler (1431 - 1476) not only cannibalised the flesh of his enemies, but rather than waste the blood he spread it on bread and ate it.. Determined to commit suicide, a Taiwanese man leaped from the top of a 23-storey office block in 2004, but survived - which is more than can be said for the woman in the car on which he landed