NYPDs Stephen Caracappa, mafia cop hitman, dead at 7. A New York City police detective who moonlighted as a brutal hitman for the mob in the 1. Convicted killer Stephen Caracappa died on Saturday while in detention at a federal medical facility in Butner, North Carolina, federal records show. He was 7. 5. The cause of death has not been made public, but Caracappa was know to have struggled with cancer in the past. Lucchese Serial Number' title='Lucchese Serial Number' />His death caps a sordid saga of crime and corruption on the dangerous streets of 1. New York, where Caracappa and his partner abused their police powers to gun down enemies of the Lucchese crime family. Former New York City police detective Stephen Caracappa center is seen at a Brooklyn court in 2. Caracappa died on Saturday while serving a life sentence in federal prison. Crooked Cops Caracappa right and fellow NYPD cop Louis Eppolito left were convicted of carrying out contract killings for Lucchese family underboss Anthony Casso. Adobe Ultra Cs3 Virtual Sets S. Shown is FMC Butner, the federal prison hospital in North Carolina where Caracappa died. Caracappa and fellow NYPD cop Louis Eppolito were convicted of murder and other charges in 2. Prosecutors said the pair were involved in at least eight contract killings for Lucchese family underboss Anthony Casso between 1. The detectives were accused of carrying out two of those killings themselves. In others, they made traffic stops that ended with the driver killed, and another time, they kidnapped a victim and turned him over to Casso, prosecutors said. Evidence was shown that Caracappa and Eppolito, who played a bit part in the classic mob movie Good. Fellas, kidnapped an FBI informant, stopping his car and taking him to a parking garage, where he was shot in the head and buried. The informants body wasnt found until 2. The mob cops crime spree cost the city heavily in civil suits filed by the families of their victims. Mafia Underboss Lucchese crime family underboss Anthony Casso pictured paid Caracappa and Eppolito 6. Lucchese Serial Number' title='Lucchese Serial Number' />Who Killed Bugsy Siegel On June 20, 1947, gangster Benjamin Bugsy Siegel was slain in Beverly Hills, his body riddled with bullets. One family claims to know. There are certain people in the world that you dont want to mess with those who control some of the largest organized crime operations on the planet. Lucchese Serial Number' title='Lucchese Serial Number' />Gunned Down Nicholas Guido was brutally gunned down outside of his mothers home on Christmas Day after he was mistaken for a mobster with the same name. In 2. 01. 0, the city paid 9. Eppolito and Caracappa had framed him in the slaying of a prostitute. Innocent Victim Guidos killers had him confused with an enemy of the mob. In 2. 01. 5, New York paid out 5million to the family of Nicholas Guido, who was brutally gunned down outside of his mothers home on Christmas Day after he was mistaken for a mobster with the same name. Crooked NYPD detective who worked as a mafia hit man for the infamous Lucchese crime family dies in prison at age 75. Corrupt cop Stephen Caracappa died in a North. She ran outside to the car and found her 2. Eppolito and Caracappas 2. I went to touch his hand, and he must have just died, she said. His fingertips were cold. Guidos killers had him confused with an enemy of Casso, the mob underboss, who paid the two detectives 4,0. In one instance, the two cops were paid 6. At sentencing, Caracappa and his partner insisted that they were innocent and had been railroaded in the case. Filosofia, diritto, logica, scienza, estetica, etica, morale, teoretica, recensioni. Walking in the dark. The horror the horror Yes, were in the final run up to Halloween, and so this. Im going to take a brief break from talking about my new crime novel. SHADOWS, in order to celebrate the season of ultimate darkness. Im going to do this on three fronts firstly, as a horror. I consider to. be the 2. Lucchese Serial Number' title='Lucchese Serial Number' />BEST HORROR NOVEL COVERS EVER and thirdly, by reviewing and. S. L. Greys spine chilling THE APARTMENT. One thing I always love about the waning of the year is the. Im not going to prattle too. Halloween and Christmas. Anyway, without more ado, if you share that interest and awareness, and youre so inclined, why. Initially, Im going to do a bit of self pimpery. As I said. Im no stranger to writing horror stories, myself. There isnt enough space. I doubt anyone reading this would have the patience for that anyway, and rightly so, but here are a couple of. DONT READ ALONE was published in 2. Green Man, a cop whose determination to locate a missing child takes him into a. DARK WINTER TALES is a more recent title, dating to 2. In. this one, again among other stuff, a housing estate is terrorised by a. England becomes obsessed with an executioners dummy. I also have a personal interest in GREAT BRITISH HORROR 2. DARK SATANIC MILLS, featured at the top of this column, which is a relatively. September, 2. 01. Black Shuck Books. Steve Shaw. You dont need to look too far beyond. Carole Johnstone, Gary. Mc. Mahon, John Llewellyn Probert and Angela Slatter, can you really afford to. On the subject of anthologies, I also want to mention NEW. FEARS, another recent publication, as edited by a good friend of mine and a top. Mark Morris. This title is a particularly. Again, check out some of the stars on the contents. The Boggle Hole by Alison Littlewood The. Embarrassment of Dead Grandmothers by Sarah Lotz The House of the Head by. Josh Malerman. Lastly, heres a particularly relevant title. Adam Nevill is. a another close friend of mine, and another incredible writer yes, Im in real. THE RITUAL. However, of. SOME WILL NOT SLEEP, which, trust me, contains some true fictional. I defy anyone to read stories like Where Angels Come In, The. Original Occupant, Yellow Teeth and Pig Thing, and to sleep easily for the next. But dont take my word for it investigate these titles for. One of the joys or agonies of being an author is that. You. dont always like them appreciation of art is a subjective thing, of course. But just. because you dont like your latest jacket, that doesnt mean others wont, or. However, throughout the history of published fiction there have occasionally been book covers so jaw dropping that no serious. And the horror genre is no exception. So here, in no particular order, are THE BEST 2. HORROR. NOVEL COVERS EVER including one or two short story collections, because this is horror, and in horror, the short form really counts 1. THE LURKER AT THE THRESHOLDH. P. Lovecraft and August Derleth Panther, 1. Familiar Lovecraft territory from the start as Ambrose Dewart returns to his ancient ancestral pile in the heart of rural Massachusetts, only to uncover horrific revelations about his familys past and their connections to ancient evil. Mostly written by August Derleth from scraps of original HP text first published in 1. KRONOS Jeremy Robinson Variance, 2. Cant really comment on the book as I havent read it yet, but anyone whos even vaguely uncomfortable swimming with deep water beneath them, or who gets nervy thinking about the ocean abyss, how does this one look to you It concerns a former Navy Seal who is determined to avenge the loss of his daughter by destroying a mysterious, colossal sea creature. THE RITUALAdam Nevill Pan, 2. Originally published in 2. When four middle aged English guys hit the wild backwoods of northern Sweden, they find themselves lost in a depthless primeval forest, filled with ancient mysteries and hideous relics, and with something ghastly in pursuit. Totally terrifying. THE OCTOBER COUNTRYRay Bradbury Ballantine, 1. A superb jacket to one of the ultimate horror collections, its otherworldly elements perfectly complementing the 1. Avant garde style to indicate that what youre going to get here wont just consist of the chilling and macabre, but will be liberally laced with weirdness and typical Ray Bradbury fantastica. MR. HANDS Gary A. Braunbeck Leisure, 2. This paperback edition put an unforgettable but very to the point cover on Gary Braunbecks third novel in the Cedar Hill series. For the uninitiated, Cedar Hill is a fictional blue collar town in Ohio, where mysterious secrets are kept and unexplained forces wreak havoc. In this installment, Braunbeck gives his own unique take on the legend of the golem, as the jacket clearly shows. JAWSPeter Benchley Doubleday, 1. The original simple and yet so effective Doubleday cover to the book that emptied seaside bathing areas across the Northern Hemisphere during one of the hottest summers on record. Theres not much more you can say, except that this perfectly judged image along with all those others derived from it has become one of the most distinctive and iconic in horror novel history. DRACULABram Stoker Penguin Classics, 2. Since its first publication by Archibald Constable in 1. Dracula has had every kind of cover conceivable, from the garish to the subtle, from the saucy to the romantic. For me, this is the best of them all, because it perfectly addresses the problem of how to re jacket a story that so many artists have already tackled in so many different styles, and pulls it off with modernist aplomb. KINKealn Patrick Burke Cemetery Dance, 2. A deceptively simple and seemingly non horrific cover, and yet when its combined with the strangely menacing title, you wont need anyone to tell you that here is a tale of rural cannibalism and depravity, which draws heavily on the backwoods mythology that fuelled such onscreen horrors as The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and The Hills Have Eyes. Strong stomachs required. THE HOUSE ON THE BORDERLANDWilliam Hope Hodsgon Sphere, 1. First published in 1. H. P. Lovecraft and Terry Pratchett. It tells the tale of a distressed recluse who seeks refuge in an isolated house in the Irish hinterland, only to find that he has attracted the attention of an evil subterranean race like this incredible jacket doesnt tell you that already. I AM LEGENDRichard Matheson Orb, 1. First published in 1. Apocalypse caused by germ warfare. The Orb cover completely embodies the nightmare scenario of mankind reduced to living dead monsterdom. ITStephen King New English Library, 1. How do you illustrate a horror novel in which the main monster presents different terrifying facets of itself to different charactersThis original classic does the job perfectly, because though the balloon is there and even though we know it was the clown lurking in the sewer on the day young Georgie died, it wasnt one of these new fangled killer clowns. It was something much, much worse. SECRET OF VENTRILOQUISMJon Padgett Dunhams Manor, 2. Another book on this list which I havent yet finished, but which simply screams to be read thanks to its unique and unsettling cover. Jon Padgetts much lauded debut collection presents us with a series of interlinked stories which most reviewers have praised for invoking fear through a consistent atmosphere of the weird and uncanny rather than gross out horror. The cover strongly hints at this.