CURSES!

How Colonel Sanders took revenge on a Japanese baseball team and de Sade’s unlucky manuscript found a new home

NO ORDINARY LOVE According to author Joel Warner, the manuscript of the Marquis De Sade’s 120 Days of Sodom carries a curse that ruins the life of anyone who owns it. In his book The Curse of the Marquis De Sade he examines the book’s origins and history, and the fates of those who have subsequently had it in their custody. The legendary classic, which prompted the coining of the word “Sadism”, was written by De Sade while he was imprisoned in the Bastille after his mother-in-law’s family used their influence to have him locked up following a series of sexual scandals that are likely to have formed the basis for his fiction. In 120 Days of Sodom, the Marquis writes of four aristocrats who imprison 16 teenagers in a…

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