Blood Feast
Ever since the teeming multitudes of ancient Rome packed the stands of the coliseum, thrilling to the spectacle of savage butchery and bloodletting being enacted upon the living bodies of slaves and gladiators dueling below, mankind has exalted in the sadistic murder, mutilation, and killing of his fellow man. Often, he has viewed this wretched tendency to brutality and violence as a sport, as part and parcel to an evening's entertainment. Whatever the reasoning behind this atavistic and barbarous desire to see the mangled and eviscerated remains of some luckless victim,(whether because of the thrill of witnessing the horrific result of a rage he dare not, as a member of polite society, indulge in himself, or for some other reason), that is a subject that is best debated by the shrinks (once called "alienists"), who spend their days talking with madmen who would put Renfield and his fly-scarfing antics to shame.
