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In 1919, Kathryn Wombacher finds a lonely-hearts ad placed by one Walter Andrew: "Would be pleased to correspond with a refined young lady or widow. Object, matrimony.” Kathryn and Walter fall in love and marry within weeks. What Kathryn doesn’t know...is that her new husband is really James “Bluebeard” Watson, a notorious West Coast serial killer who catfished and married 22 women, murdering 10.

Meet Rabo Karabekian, a moderately successful surrealist painter who we meet late in life and see struggling (like all of Vonnegut's key characters) with the dregs of unresolved pain and the consequences of brutality. Loosely based on the legend of Bluebeard (best realized in Bela Bartok's one-act opera), the novel follows Karabekian through the last events in his life that is heavy with women, painting, artistic ambition, artistic fraudulence, and as of yet unknown consequence.

A man with a beard is not an uncommon thing, but a man with a blue beard is quite the uncommon thing...and not a great hit with the ladies! So come and discover how Blue Beard was able to get a wife, and convince her that he was a good man.... And yet her curiosity into his past drove him beyond her imagination! Find out the shocking end to this tale, narrated through several characters by Kathy Verduin.

He was rich beyond imagination and outwardly gracious, but women shunned him because of his beard, which was unmistakably blue. Also, Bluebeard, as he was forever known, had been married several times before but no one knew what became of all his wives. Nevertheless, he manages to woo young Fatima, who only discovers after they are married the fate of his previous wives and that she faces the same fate. This is the classic tale by Charles Perrault, retold masterfully by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch.

When the successful British mystery writer Judith Moore meets Gavin, a handsome and charming baron, at a birthday party on the Cornish coast, his love transforms her from a bitter, lonely young woman into a romance heroine overnight. After a whirlwind honeymoon in Paris, he whisks her away to a secluded Gothic castle. But soon she finds herself trapped in a nightmare, as her husband’s mysterious nature and his alternation between charm and violence become increasingly frightening.

Zhil-byl odnazhdy chelovek, u kotorogo vodilos' mnozhestvo vsjakogo dobra: byli u nego prekrasnye doma v gorode i za gorodom, zolotaja i serebrjanaja posuda, shitye kresla i pozolochennye karety, no, k neschast'ju, boroda u jetogo cheloveka byla sinjaja, i jeta boroda pridavala emu takoj bezobraznyj i groznyj vid, chto vse devushki i zhenshhiny, byvalo, kak tol'ko zavidjat ego, tak davaj bog poskoree nogi.

The true crime story of Henri Désiré Landru, master of murder and the art of making love, captivated the whole of Europe for almost two years. Landru is known to have murdered at least a dozen women for their savings and their furniture. Moreover, the uncanny fascination which he held for his victims from the moment he fixed them with his strangely compelling eyes, has never been properly explained.

Моя жизнь изменилась за один миг, когда герцог Доминик Легре увидел меня и захотел обладать. Отступать некуда, никто еще не смог отказать этому властному мужчине.

Une journaliste avide d'une solide histoire pour réhabiliter sa carrière. Un assassin, interné pour aliénation mentale, qui a bien maquillé certains de ses crimes. Une ancienne épouse marquée à vie par la violence. Des rituels sataniques enterrés au coeur de la forêt. Une rencontre qui déchaîne un cycle de violence prévu depuis longtemps. Charles Perrault affirme, à la fin de Barbe Bleue, que la curiosité coûte souvent bien des regrets. La protagoniste de cette nouvelle mouture du fameux conte l'apprendra à ses dépens en se frottant au monstre qui la fascine...