Status Updates From Johannes Cabal the Necroman...

"'Is that it? No threats?'
'Threats, Mr. Barrow, are the preserve of blowhards and cowards. I am neither.' He walked back to Barrow until they were toe to toe. 'I don't even give warnings.'" (181) kiss kiss kiss

"Thomas Nashton Cream—'The Incompetent Killer.' Attempted murders, one. Actual deaths, twenty-seven, all unintentional. Intended victim escaped unscathed.
• Frederick Gallagher—'The Brides in the Inflammable Electrified Acid Bath Murderer.' Limited threat. Kills only for insurance money. Is prone to overplanning." (151)

"It is no accident that the same women who say, 'You have to love a bastard,' with a twinkle in their eye, are the same women who—later, when it transpires that the bastards that they loved and let into their lives are, indeed, utter bastards—then complain, 'All men are bastards.' Given the skewed sample of their survey, it's hardly a surprising or reliable conclusion." (87) yes let's punch down at abused women

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