THIS WEEK IN HORROR September 8 – 14, 2026
⚠️ The following article discusses real crimes, including murder, sexual violence, and death. Some details are graphic. Reader discretion is strongly advised. Five stories. Five countries. Five reminders that the world keeps producing horrors no fiction writer would dare invent. This week: a decades-old decapitation resurfaces in Japan, a South Korean holiday island becomes the backdrop for a serial killer scare tangled up in police corruption, an Austrian case draws comparisons to one of the most infamous trials in modern European history, a South African city grapples with a possible serial predator targeting women, and a Mexican musician's family is wiped out over a dispute that should never have ended in death. Let's get into it. 🩸 JAPAN: The Hostess Who Calmly Decapitated Her Boyfriend — Then Went to Work ...
