Novel triggered by the story of Josef Fritzl, who kept his daughter locked in a cellar for 24 years and fathered her children, has made the shortlist for the £30,000 Orange Prize... more
Oscar-nominated actor John Malkovich is to tread the boards in his one-man play The Infernal Comedy as a Josef Fritzl-style Austrian psychopath... more
Two women who were raped and abused by their father over 25 years - bearing seven of his children - were given an apology by the authorities which failed to protect them... more
He was raised in a strange Christian cult and dates a taxidermist. No wonder, then, that Mat Collishaw is fêted as the most macabre of the YBAs... more
In the days after Elisabeth Fritzl was released from her captive hell, she developed an addiction to washing, showering up to 10 times a day as she tried to scrub herself clean of her father's touch and stench... more
Josef Fritzl finally cracked when he realised his daughter had come into the court where he was on trial for raping and imprisoning her for 24 years, it was revealed... more
Josef Fritzl, who fathered seven children with a daughter he held in a cellar for 24 years, has pleaded guilty to incest but denied murdering a newborn son who died underground.... more
A satirical play about Josef Fritzl, who held his daughter captive in a basement for 24 years and fathered seven children with her, has sold out in Vienna... more
Austrian Josef Fritzl, who allegedly kept his daughter Elisabeth captive in a cellar for 24 years, fathered eight children with her, it emerged... more