The Gorbals Vampire: The child-eating monster that terrorized Glasgow in the 1950s
For three nights the children came to the “City of the Dead.” They carried knives, clubs and stakes–even a crucifix. Two hundred or more children…
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The ‘Cutting Monster’: Bizarre 18th century illustrations of London’s stab-happy lady stalker
A bizarre illustration/caricature by James Gillray of the ‘Monster’ (aka the ‘Cutting Monster’) assaulting one of his female victims, 1790. Nearly a century before Jack…