Stylish Spanish horror about a maniac 'purifying' the unworthy in a dimly-lit former brothel. Antonio Frau has just served 25 years in prison for killing his girlfriend in the heat of a dispute &, as it quickly becomes plain, he's a rather poor advert for rehabilitation. While inside, Antonio has inherited The Pension Paraiso
- a decrepit brothel
- from a dead relative which he puts to good use as his own comfortable domicile
- even buying a new freezer. On an Internet dating service, he meets & marries a lovely woman & is soon living the straight life, renovating the bordello to its former muted glory. However, the formerly felonious hotelier, it appears, is also running a little sideline in redemption in room H6.. Pretty soon the neighbourhood is a rather uncomfortable place for the pimps, racketeers & doxies that walk its streets.


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Christopher Csejthe survived a blood transfusion with a vampire, only to discover that he was infected with one of the two viruses that transform the living into the undead. Since then he has survived his wits, as men, monsters, & government agencies have hunted him for his mutated blood. ...

Sacco & Vanzetti, the Rosenbergs, & Aileen Wuornos. A witch, a pirate, a slave who poisoned her master. A serial killer, a Quaker, a case of mistaken identity. The earliest to be electrocuted, gassed, & lethally injected; the last to be publicly hanged. This work features fifty sonnets, each about a legal execution in American history. ...