Undying Love: The True Story Of A Passion That Defied DeathThe power of obsessive love seems to know no bounds-- yet one man took his unrequited passion to a grotesque new level that will shock even the most hardened readers. Undying Love is that story-- read on if you dare... Carl von Cosel was a German immigrant who worked as a technician in a Key West tubercular ward. When a beautiful young woman, Elena Milagro Hoyos, was brought in with an advanced case of tuberculosis, von Cosel-- a self-named count-- was determined to cure her with his own unconventional methods. But Elena eventually succumbed to the fatal disease, and the Count was heartbroken, for despite her rebuffs, he had fallen madly in love with the fetching Latina. For two years, von Cosel worshipped her grave-- until he could stand it no longer. One moonless night, he exhumed Elena's decomposing body and took it home with him. Through an elaborate embalming process, von Cosel managed to preserve the corpse from further decay and even garishly dressed it up to become his eternal bride. In their macabre marriage bed, von Cosel made love to his mummified wife-- and kept her shriveled corpse for eight years...until his twisted crime was discovered! |
Contents
STRANGER THAN FICTION | 9 |
ELENA MILAGRO HOYOS | 20 |
COUNT CARL VON COSEL | 29 |
DAIGNOSIS AND PROGNOSIS | 45 |
TREATMENTS PROPOSALS AND ROSES | 54 |
WHERE THERES LIFE THERES HOPE | 66 |
THE PARADE ON DUVAL | 75 |
THE MAUSOLEUM AND THE GREAT ESCAPE | 86 |
NOTHING STAYS THE SAME | 137 |
ORDER IN THE COURT | 151 |
MAD OR SANE? | 177 |
FRIENDS TO THE RESCUE | 193 |
REST IN PEACE ELENA | 206 |
UNTIL WE MEET AGAIN | 208 |
CARL TANZLER RETURNS TO ZEPHYRHILLS | 218 |
IN SICKNESS AND IN HEALTH | 226 |
LIFE DEATH AND AIRSHIPS | 102 |
AT REST ON REST BEACH | 113 |
FINALLY ELENA REAWAKENS | 123 |
THE STORY THAT WOULDNT DIE | 233 |
BLAME IT ON THE TROPICS | 237 |
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