Blood Obsession

Blood Obsession
Title Blood Obsession PDF eBook
Author Jörg Waltje
Publisher Peter Lang
Pages 174
Release 2005
Genre Foreign Language Study
ISBN 9780820474205

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What is it about vampires that fascinates the human imagination? Blood Obsession closely scrutinizes theories of Sigmund Freud and Tzvetan Todorov and arrives at a model of the vampire as the perfect representative of genre for a variety of reasons - the vampire figure appeals to its audience because of an interdependency of looplike mental and narrative structures that lure both reader and writer incessantly back to the genre. At the same time, this book provides the reader with a thorough survey of literary and filmic vampires in both adult and juvenile fictions. Lastly, it blends the realms of legal and literary history by highlighting the changes the image of the serial killer, a close relative of the vampire, underwent at the end of the twentieth century. Blood Obsession is a highly enlightening study for the general reader as well as for students of film, literature, and popular culture.

Blood Obsession

Blood Obsession
Title Blood Obsession PDF eBook
Author R. L. Dunn
Publisher
Pages
Release 2017-10-29
Genre
ISBN 9781532352232

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Blood Obsession

Blood Obsession
Title Blood Obsession PDF eBook
Author R.L. Dunn
Publisher Lulu.com
Pages 500
Release 2017-09-02
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1387204475

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Stunning Roberta (Bobbi) Wallace lives a life of privilege amidst New York City's high society. But the 26-year-old is forced to reassess her life when her NYPD boyfriend is killed in the line of duty. Leaving her old life behind her, Bobbi joins the force and is quickly promoted to detective, drawing her into immediate conflict with her new partner, Rose Jennings, and igniting an attraction with another detective, Max Buckley. But there are more dangerous problems waiting for her, as an old boyfriend returns and an obsessed serial killer targets her, with the crazed notion that her death at his hands will make him all powerful. Fighting insecurities about her own background is the least of Bobbi's worries as she desperately tries to uncover the identity of the killer, while falling in love with Max at the same time. Can she survive the pressure, personally and professionally? And is Max strong enough to save her from herself and the obsession that now threatens to destroy them both?

Blood Will Tell

Blood Will Tell
Title Blood Will Tell PDF eBook
Author Joseph Bosco
Publisher William Morrow
Pages 620
Release 1993
Genre Murder
ISBN

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"In the early morning of February 24, 1984, Janet Cannon Myers, a beautiful young mother, poet, and dancer, was found dead, lying amid an explosion on her living-room floor. There were only two men in the whole world who could possibly have committed the deed: her husband, Kerry, and one of his closest friends, Bill Fontanille." "The media blitz immediately after the murder featured stories of a badly injured, grieving husband, an all-night fight-and-hostage situation as he vainly tried to protect his family, his desperate call to the police, and charges against Bill Fontanille (the scorned lover?) for attacking Kerry Myers, almost killing his two-and-a-half-year-old son, and bludgeoning to death Kerry's wife." "But upon close examination of Kerry's and Bill's statements to the police, the prosecutor's office found a troubling coincidence: Their accounts of what happened were virtual mirror images, the stories all but identical, except that each accused the other of attacking him with either a knife or a bat immediately upon entry into the Myers house that late Thursday afternoon. Each man vowed his innocence; in fact, each man said he hadn't even seen Janet during that long evening, much less her corpse." "After four grand juries and three trials over seven years, both men were sent to prison, yet no one - including the judge and jury who convicted them and the district attorney's office that prosecuted them - has been able to determine who did what to whom and why. Perhaps until now, that is." "Through hundreds of interviews, exhaustive research in thousands of pages of documents, and exclusive access to both Kerry Myers and Bill Fontanille, Joe Bosco has done what the media, the courts, and all the family members and friends of the victim and the suspects have never been able to do - break open the sordid vault that holds so many of even the best family's secrets and lay bare all that is necessary for you to understand and then render your verdict upon what actually happened that horrific night." "Blood Will Tell is the story of a quiet New Orleans suburb whose deceptive calm is shattered by unimaginable savagery; a world where seemingly perfect marriages cover up histories of constant abuse; where close friendships are betrayed for sex; where loyalty and love are forgotten in the grip of ambition and greed. Bosco sketches indelible portraits of the victim and the accused, exposing passions and flaws that made this tragedy inevitable." "Blood Will Tell is also a riveting legal thriller, a page-turning succession of back-and-forth accusations, of judgments and reversals of court opinions. For ten years this extraordinary case has gripped New Orleans, Hollywood, and the national media. With the shattering revelations in this book, it is certain to endure as a legal phenomenon and a landmark in the U.S. criminal justice system for decades to come."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Blood Obsession

Blood Obsession
Title Blood Obsession PDF eBook
Author Lynn Marie Simpson
Publisher
Pages 238
Release 2010-01-01
Genre
ISBN 9781926898070

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Blood Libel

Blood Libel
Title Blood Libel PDF eBook
Author Magda Teter
Publisher Harvard University Press
Pages 561
Release 2020-01-07
Genre History
ISBN 0674243552

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A landmark history of the antisemitic blood libel myth—how it took root in Europe, spread with the invention of the printing press, and persists today. Accusations that Jews ritually killed Christian children emerged in the mid-twelfth century, following the death of twelve-year-old William of Norwich, England, in 1144. Later, continental Europeans added a destructive twist: Jews murdered Christian children to use their blood. While charges that Jews poisoned wells and desecrated the communion host waned over the years, the blood libel survived. Initially blood libel stories were confined to monastic chronicles and local lore. But the development of the printing press in the mid-fifteenth century expanded the audience and crystallized the vocabulary, images, and “facts” of the blood libel, providing a lasting template for hate. Tales of Jews killing Christians—notably Simon of Trent, a toddler whose body was found under a Jewish house in 1475—were widely disseminated using the new technology. Following the paper trail across Europe, from England to Italy to Poland, Magda Teter shows how the blood libel was internalized and how Jews and Christians dealt with the repercussions. The pattern established in early modern Europe still plays out today. In 2014 the Anti-Defamation League appealed to Facebook to take down a page titled “Jewish Ritual Murder.” The following year white supremacists gathered in England to honor Little Hugh of Lincoln as a sacrificial victim of the Jews. Based on sources in eight countries and ten languages, Blood Libel captures the long shadow of a pernicious myth.

The Man Who Couldn't Stop

The Man Who Couldn't Stop
Title The Man Who Couldn't Stop PDF eBook
Author David Adam
Publisher Macmillan
Pages 337
Release 2015-01-20
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 0374223955

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Our siege mentality -- Bad thoughts -- The mademoiselle and the rat man -- An emerging obsession -- The OCD family -- Cruel to be kind -- The God obsession -- Animals and other relatives -- Man hands on misery to man -- The runaway brain -- Daddy's little helper -- The helicopter view -- Long live lobotomy -- Politics and prejudice -- A new dimension -- Final thoughts.