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Thread #113441 Message #3123774
Posted By: Dad Perkins
28-Mar-11 - 09:20 PM
Thread Name: What murder ballad is the saddest? [songs]
Subject: RE: What murder ballad is the saddest?
saddest hell. what about the scariest?
My vote: the Daemon Lover aka House Carpenter.
narrative tropes include:
child abandonment infidelity cruise on a haunted ship demon/ghost as lover eternal damnation