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Book Review of Cellar of Horror

Cellar of Horror
Cellar of Horror
Author: Ken Engalde
Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
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Helpful Score: 1


3520 North Marshall Street in Philadelphia is a house tainted with the stench of burning flesh. What police found there was an incredible nightmare made real. Four young women had been held captive--some for four months--half-naked and chained. They had been tortured, starved, and repeatedly raped. But more grotesque discoveries lay in the kitchen: human limbs frozen, a torso burned to cinders, an empty pot suspiciously scorched....

This is not a story for the faint-hearted. It is a shocking true account of the self-proclaimed minister with a long history of mental illness, whose bizarre plan to create his own "baby factory" preyed upon the susceptible and the retarded. It is a macabre web spun around the twin spectors of money and religion, tangled with courtroom drama and lawyers' tactics, sure to send a chill into your very soul.