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...skeleton, which will stretch at least fifty feet when mounted, belonged to the sea-monster Kronosaurus, a Plesiosaur of the Lower Cretaceous period...
...hangman's memoirs brightened the Sabbath with intimate glimpses of the killers about to die ("He blinked bewilderedly, screwing up his eyes") and craftsmanlike pride in his humane efficiency ("I hanged John Reginald Christie, the Monster of Rillington Place, in less time than it took the ash to fall off a cigar I had left half-smoked in my room at Pentonville"). After an execution (fee: $42), Pierrepoint would go back to his cigar and his regular job (pubkeeper...
...months later Carolina's father, Ernesto Picchioni, was known to all Italy as the "Monster of Nerola." With her mother, two sisters and a brother, Carolina lived with him in a dank stone cottage in a lonely gorge in the hills east of Rome. Father Picchioni was an itinerant olive-picker, chicken thief, and loud-mouthed braggart who was first a Fascist, later a Communist. Always roaring at his wife and children, he once made them dig a long family grave in the backyard so that "it will be ready when I want...
...grown man, the sergeant still mistakes the life of the flesh for the death of the soul. He carries his fanaticism as a scared child carries a candle in the dark, and so his whole world is filled with a black monster which he calls the Devil, because he cannot see that it is really his own shadow. Since it is wartime, the shadow falls readily on his German enemies, and he slaughters them with the righteous wrath of an avenging angel...
Also included are: one invisible fiery monster whose footprints are "incredibly large," the usual green sky, two moons, and the beautiful craggy countryside. In the big love affair between the space ship's captain and the scientis's daughter, Anne Francis is successfully taught the secret of the Earth people's popularity: they kiss well. Thus the picture again proves the tale of outer space: the forbidden planet is Hollywood...