Murder, infanticide, cannibalism, love and heartbreak... "A Ruthless Romantic" is a collection of poems by one of the harshest authors of extreme horror. This collection takes the best elements of Rat's prose and, using traditional Japanese and Korean formal poetic structures, condenses them into a medium that is both unsettling and thought-provoking. A wife kills her husband and buries him in the desert, and then visits him every day to place roses on his grave. A young man in love becomes the victim of a predator. A mother mourns the baby she abandoned in a trash heap. A home where the ghosts of murdered children shout warnings to the living, wendigos, zombies, a serial killer, vampires and even a serial killer killing a vampire... - Rat's poetry takes traditional horror themes and gives them his own devilish twist...