I raised the spade above my head like an axe, and with a single blow from the sharp edge I split the fisherman's head in two.
Now this one really did bleed!
mingled with brain.
It slid into the water ever so gently...
From the masterly pen of de Maupassant, come these sixteen tales of the tangible, hideous world of violent death... cruel and calculated murder, blood-crazed vengeance, execution by guillotine and by firing-squad, crimes of passion, crimes of insanity...