Macabre Grim Scary Tales 1. Locusta Locusta was one of the first serial killers recorded in historyShe lived in ancient Rome and her killing method was poisoningNero's Mother was the wife of the Emperor ClaudiusShe decided to hire Locusta for her killing servicesA dish of poisoned mushrooms caused the death of ClaudiusShe was lated called upon to kill his son BritannieusLocusta was caught and paid for her crimes in a manner that was typicalShe was raped by a trained giraffe then torn apart by animals 2. Nero's Inferno In ancient pagan Rome, the entertainment of those times Took place in huge arenas where the people could unwind As helpless Christians were fed to the starving animals They watched and cheered and thought the pastime was enjoyable Though all the Caesar's of Rome were depraved and perverse Everybody said that Nero the Caesar was the worst [CHORUS:] Nero's inferno Rome must have been like a giant sterno Nero's inferno Nero played his lyre as he watched the burning Rome When he was young he liked to prowl around the streets at night Attacking men on their way home Killing them with a knife Then later in life he would dress in skins of animals A leaping from a den Attacking people tied to poles With men and women tied to stakes Unable to defend themselves Nero would attack them biting off their genitals [CHORUS] He wanted a new palace home and so he burned down Rome, it's Nero's inferno The palace that he lived in wasn't good enough for him It's Nero's inferno A sudden fire did appear as Nero played his lyre, it's Nero's inferno He blamed the Christians for the fire but Nero was a liar, it's Nero's inferno He castrated a boy named Sporus and dressed him as his bride At this wedding they made torches of the Christians for their light He tore out his mother's womb to see where he came from He burned down Rome and played his lyre and blamed the Christians Rome rejected Nero and called him public enemy He stabbed himself in the throat Helped by his secretary 3. The Black Knight Born in fourteen o four Gilles De Rais came from a family of knights He was known as a great hero and worst villain during his life In the Hundred Years' War he served as lieutenant for Saint Joan of Arc During the second half of the War as they struggled but made their mark [Chorus:] Gilles De Rais was the man Aristocrat in his homeland Gilles De Rais was the man A hero in his homeland Gilles De rais played a crucial role in France's greatest victories So he was named the Marshall of France at the age twenty It wasn't only in the military Rais shared Joan of Arc's mission He was a devout Catholic and a believer in her holy (visions) [Chorus] After Joan of Arc's execution and his victory at Lagny Rais came home and waged war against kids in his vicinity He would sodomize the children, mostly boys but girls as well Rais would kill and cut them open and masturbate on their entrails [Chorus 2:] Gilles De rais was the man Who cut up the French children What Gilles De Rais would do then Is masturbate on their organs He got away with murder for eight years with his noble position Rais dabbled in occult while he eliminated local children Rais sacrificed kids and the Black Magic summoning demons from hell Gilles De Rais spent most of his money and used magicians to replenish his wealth [Chorus 2] Gilles De Rais killing ways finally ceased He sold a castle and took it back with force by beating a priest A violation against the church that stripped Rais of his position soon after that they solved the mystery of the missing children [Chorus 2] They searched Rais' castle and then found fifty mutilated kids Faced with torture and excommunication Rais confessed to what he did Condemned by the church for using Black Magic and the court for murder Rais was executed where he was simultaneously hanged and burned [Chorus 2] 4. Dracula In the fifteenth century lived a prince of nobility His Father's nickname was Dracula, which means the dragon or the devil Dracula was the son of the devil or the dragon And he lived up to his name A name that goes on in infamous fame [Chorus:] Terrible atrocities Suffering and misery Vlad the Impaler inflicted on his enemies Excruciating painful torturous misery Vlad the Impaler imposed upon his enemies They were Romanian stuck between the Turks and the Hungarians His Father Vlad Two tried to plea Bot of his neighboring adversaries With the ability to switch sides To the one with the upper and at the time For this reason his sons had to spend Four long years in a Turkish prison [Chorus] It's not clear from history if his mind was twisted during captivity But Dracula was released when his Father Dracula was deceased And the when he was free Vlad became ruler of his country Vlad the Impaler was the name he procured For the hideous method of death he preferred Vlad's favorite way of executing people Was impaling them on stakes and he watched them as he ate Upon the very pointed greased down stakes Vlad's enemies were placed killing them with their own weight Through their heart or navel or mouth and vagina or anus Is were the stakes were placed Vlad's terrifying stakes Having mass execution by impaling his enemies Suited Vlad III's tastes Witnessing their gruesome fate Vlad's gruesome reign came to an end Provoking war with the Turks again In the Turkish territory Vlad's troops were routed eventually With his ghastly reputation Christian leaders wouldn't help Vlad with his altercations That's the reason for his defeat for what Vlad had sewn He soon would reap [Chorus] When the sultan's troops came upon the forest of Vlad's impaled victims That slowed their advance for a while Because of Dracula's killing style He was exiled and Vlad III Years later joined the Hungarian army In a war between the Turks Vlad was dead And to Constantinople they brought back his head [Chorus] 5. The Big Bad Wolf Who's afraid of the big bad wolf The big bad wolf the big bad wolf Kids are afraid of the bid bad wolf The big bad wolf the big bad wold Once upon a time there was a hermit man Who got married and found it hard to provide for both of them He was tempted by a demon who promised them a better life With an ointment he vould change into a wolf with quite a bite [CHORUS] Such big ears, the better to hear you with Such big eyes, the better to see you with Such big teeth, the better to eat you with Little red riding hood, my dear Such big ears, the better to hear you with Such big eyes, the better to see you with Such big teeth, the better to eat you with Little red riding hood, my dear And so he made the deal and changed unto a wild beast Stalking local children, so his wife and him could feast The devil spawned wolf man, looked for kids who were alone And with his teeth he tore their flesh and took some pieces home [CHORUS] Twice while killing children, he was seen by passerby's Scaring off the wolf before they were cannibalized The big bad wolf was tracked down and they sentenced him to die And so the executioner burned the big bad wolf alive [CHORUS] Who's afraid of the big bad wolf The big bad wolf the big bad wolf Kids are afraid of the bid bad wolf The big bad wolf the big bad wold The end and everyone lived happily ever after 6. Countess Bathory [Venom Cover] Welcoming the virgins fair, to live a noble life In the castle known to all - the Count's infernal wife She invites the peasants with endless lavish foods But, when evening spreads it wings, she rapes them of their blood Countess Bathory Countess Bathory All day long the virgins sit and feast on endless meals The Countless laughs and sips her wine - her skin doth crack and peel But when nighttime fills the air one must pay the price The Countess takes her midnight bath with blood that once gave life Countess Bathory Countess Bathory Living in her self styled Hell, the Countess dressed in black Life's so distant - death's so near - no blood to fury time back The castle walls are closing in, she's crippled now with age Welcomes death with open arms - the reaper turns the page Countess Bathory Countess Bathory 7. Burke and Hare In the Scottish slums of Edinburgh lived a horrid pair Two Irish immigrants named William Burke and William Hare They ran a squalid boarding house and an old man died in there Who owned four pounds rent and William Hare said that's not fair So Hare and his friend Burke came up with a morbid plan To make a profit from medical science's demands They filled the old man's coffin with tree bark then sold the man To Doctor Knoxs' medical school for dissection [CHORUS] Burke and Hare were a very greedy pair Selling bodies to climb their financial stairs Burke and Hare lured victims to their lair Selling the cadavers for pretty decent fare Doctor Knoxs' staff said cadaver were in demand And they would pay good money for some fresh specimens Still one question then remained how to acquire them So once again Burke and Hare devised a greedy plan They cut off the air of sickly bordered types Killing the old people who couldn't put up a fight For money the very greedy pair would snuff out human life Then take their corpses to Doctor Knoxs' knife [CHORUS] The remaining boarders weren't sick so they couldn't take their lives Then Burke and Hare decided they should go for some different types They recruited Burke's mistress and Hare's common law wife The women then would lure in street people in the night The desperate street people went back to Burke's and Hare's lair And became dissection specimens once they were inside there With a steady supply of liquor the poor victims weren't prepared For easy suffocation by the greedy Burke and Hare [CHORUS] Snuffing ou the homeless the quite evil pair were prone But they had no qualms about killing close to home Like Burke's girlfriend's cousin and a wash woman as they grown Then took them to Doctor Knox who cut them to the bone The last victim a woman snuffed out inside their lair Two lodgers found her body and reported Burke and Hare Hare blamed Burke, got off without a care They hung Burke in the airr and Hare got away from there 8. Mary Ann Mary Ann, Mary Ann was looking for a mand Who'd propose and take her hand, Mary Ann Mary Ann, Mary Ann was from the Victorian Era that was very grand, Mary Ann Mary Ann, Mary Ann (she) had a family plan To have children with her man, Mary Ann Mary Ann, Mary Ann achived her family plan Having children with her man, oh Mary Ann Mary Ann, Mary Ann took out insurance plans On her children and her man, oh Mary Ann Mary Ann, Mary Ann then took up poisoning To collect insurance scams, Mary Ann Mary Ann, Mary Ann poisoned her kids and her man Then moved on to start a new family plan Mary Ann used poison again and again To repeat her evil scam, Mary Ann Mary Ann, Mary Ann (she) got into a jam Caught poisoning her children and herman Mary Ann's poison hands were convicted and condemned Mary's execution wasn't in her plan 9. The Bloody Benders The Benders were a family Who arrived in Labette County KAnsa around 1870 The the Bender family built a one room log shanty The size of it was sixteen by twenty The shanty was used for an inn divided by a canvas curtain So there might be some privacy The Benders lived on one end, the other side was for the inn Where they offered travelers hospitality [CHORUS] The family named the Benders Were life enders They were death vendors The Bender Familys In the family was old man Bender, ma and their two children John junior and his sister Kate When travelers passing by their land, not knowing of the Bender's plan Fell for the bloody Bender's bait The traverlers were ushered in Seated with their backs to the curtain Talking to Kate waiting to be fed On the other side of the curtain Father or brother was a lurking To smash a sledge hammer on their head [CHORUS] Doctor York was travellin' Then ended up missing With his brothers posse his route was retraced The Benders endured questioning and denied ever seeing him So they left the bloody Benders place The posse came back again when they heard the Benders ran Foun the victims buried on their land And so the posse searched for them And no one knows for sure wat happened But the Benders weren't seen again 10. Lizzy Borden Lizzie Borden axe murderess In American folklore the term was synonymous Se wake the maid who was napping in her bed As Lizzie yelled to the maide, father is dead! [CHORUS] Lizzie Borden took an axe Gaver her stepmother twenty whacks While on the couch her father slept She hacked him till no life was left Her stepmother was hacked as she made the bed With father on the couch nine axe wounds to his head It seems that Lizzie would of had some motive And time to destroy incriminating evidence [CHORUS] Lizzie's alibi was very weak at best She was the mains suspect which led to her arrest Then they charged Lizzie Borden with the axe murders The slaughter of her stepmother and her father [CHORUS] And Lizzie Borden's trial was irrelevant Because the evidence was insufficient And even though she probably did it Lizzie Borden was acquited 11. The Ripper Tramp From France Sadistic killer Joseph Vacher has long been forgotten But compared to Jack The Ripper Joseph's deeds could be more rotten He joined the French army, but complaints from other men Sent him to the doctors for some observations He met a woman on sick leave that he had selected Proposed and had a temper tantrum when he was rejected Joseph shot the woman three times but she lived He shot his head and lived and made his face repulsive [CHORUS] Thre ripper tramp from France With his murder prance advance Upon his innocent victims Who never had a chance The ripper rtamp from France Was in an evil trance Wandering around and killing Whenever he got the chance Joseph was committed to an insane asylum They declared him cured in a year Then they discharged him So one month later he went out to fill his murder needs Became a tramp and committed atrocities He carried with him scissors plus a cleaver and some knives And mutilated victims as he roamed the countryside The doctors said that he was cured and so they set him free Which allowed the ripper tramp from France to do his evil deeds [CHORUS] From 1894 to 1897 The repulsive drifting tramp killed and raped at least eleven A woman gathering pinecones caught Joseph Vacher's eye Her family heard her screaming or else se would have died Her neighbors and her family subdued the crazy man They overpowered Joseph and then dragged him to the inn Soon after he confessed to a lot of murdering They sentenced him to death and he was guillotined [CHORUS] 12. Bella The Butcher Bella Gunness was a lady fair in Indiana state She weighed about three hundred punds and that is quite some weight That she was stronger than a man her neighbors all did own She butchered hogs right easily and did it all alone But hogs were just a sideline she indulged in now and then Her favorite occupation was the butchering of men To keep her cleaver busy Bella would run an ad And men would come scurrying with all the cash they had Now some say Belle killed only ten and some say forty two It was hard to tell exactly but there were quite a few Where Belle is now no one knows but my advice is fair If a widow advertises for a man with cash beware A Norwegian immigrant Belle Gunness lived in greed She moved to America to start some families Her husband and two babies were insured heavily All three died in convulsion and agony They died in agony from strychine poisoning And no on was suspicious of Bella's activities [CHORUS] Bella the butcher chopped up her men and buried them down by the hog pen She took out insurance policies then she murderer her families With a foster daughter and her two girls the farm they settled in Then Bella the butcher spun the web once again She found a man, farmer Gunness and married him But he had no idea he's Bella's next victim He didnät last as long as her first husband He impregnated her but their union soon would end [CHORUS] A heavy sausage grinder on a shelf fell on him And hit him right between the eyes That's what Bella sad happened She took out some ads for hired hands and men to wed And she had many responses to her ads the men had read Men thinking being with Bella good thish were just ahead But none of them knew their life was hanging by a thread [CHORUS] The farm burned down they found dead kids and a woman with no head They searched the grounds and then they found the dismembered buried dead The kids were Bella's but they never found woman's head It was assumed that it was Bella's, but others say she fled 13. The Kiss Of Death In First War the Austro-Hungarian Army needed gasoline The Czinkota Village constable remembered something Before the war a man had stored some large metal drums He said they were filled with gasoline for hard times that would come Inside they found the drums seven of them in all They pried open the drums and found they contained wood alcohol [CHORUS 1] Bella Kiss couldn't miss With his charming advertisements that women couldn't resist Bella Kiss was in the services He found a dead soldier and their dog tags Bella switched Submerged in the wood alcohol the soldiers nex they found The naked strangled corpses of some women who were bound But Bella Kiss had been drafted into the army core And apparently had been killed on the frontline in the First World War Kisses bureau owerflowed with female responses With cards and letters to Bella advertisements [CHORUS 2] Bella Kiss couldn't miss With his charming advertisements that women couldn't resist Bella Kiss was filled with evilness he pickled women and stored them on his premises They searched and found seventeen drums in the surrounding countryside Each drum had contained a pickled corpse that Bella stashed inside Theu thought that he was dead And in the First World War was killed But they didn't know they were the fools on the hill He switched identities with a dead soldier Which gave Kiss access to travel and he was never found [CHORUS 2] 14. The Sweet Tender Meat Vendor During World War I life was a struggle in Berlin And getting food and staple supplies was a big problem The desperate German people would buy food upon the street From the shady street vendors who were selling cuts of meat [CHORUS 1] Georg Grossman was a very gross man Sellin meat on the street to the people of Berlin Gerog claimed the meat was beef or pork butchered just for them But little did they know that Grossman was deceiving them Georg Grossman lived in a Berlin slum apartment and asked for special privileges But he always paid his rent He wanted kitchen privacy with no disturbances So the landlord did comply wit his tenant's wishes [CHORUS 1] Georg Grossman was a big man with a violent past Arrested many times and on kid died from his attracts He supported himself by begging and peddling on the street With one legimate vocation, he learned to btucher meat [CHORUS 1] Georg brought many prostitutes back to his apartment He'd take them to the kitchen with no suspicions fom tenants But the tenants didn't know that Georg was butchering his prey to sell the meat upon the street the very next day [CHORUS 2] Georg Grossman was a very gross man Turning people into cannibals in Berlin He claimed the meat was beef or pork butchered just for them But the meat came from the prostitutes murdered by Grossman Throughout the war Georg Grossman sold his special cuts of meat Making cannibals out of Germans saying it was porko or beef And then one night the landlord heard screaming in the kitchen He called the police who found a woman prepared for butchering [CHORUS 2] Georg Grossman was not willing to supply information They estimated he butchered at least 50 women The court convicted Grossman and they sentenced him to die He hung himself in the prison Georg committed suicide [CHORUS 2] Line-up : Corporate Death - Seven String Guitar, Vocals Nefarious - Six String Bass, Backing Vocals Denis The Menace - Drums