the robber bridegroom

• grimm kardeşler masalı. değirmenci güzeller güzeli kızını evlendirmeye karar verir. zengin koca adayı genç kızları evlenme bahanesiyle ağına düşürüp öldüren bir çete elemanıdır. yaşlı kadının da yardımıyla kızımız bu adamdan kaçmayı başarır ve adamın ipliğini pazara çıkarır.
• (bkz: eudora welty)'nin bir romanı.
• aynı zamanda, (bkz: margaret atwood)'un da bir şiiri:
  
  he would like not to kill. he would like
  what he imagines other men have,
  instead of this red compulsion. why do the women
  fail him and die badly? he would like to kill them gently,
  finger by finger and with great tenderness, so that
  at the end they would melt into him
  with gratitude for his skill and the final pleasure
  he still believes he could bring them
  if only they would accept him,
  but they scream too much and make him angry.
  then he goes for the soul, rummaging
  in their flesh for it, despotic with self-pity,
  hunting among the nerves and the shards
  of their faces for the one thing
  he needs to live, and lost
  back there in the poplar and spruce forest
  in the watery moonlight, where his young bride,
  pale but only a little frightened,
  her hands glimmering with his own approaching
  death, gropes her way towards him
  along the obscure path, from white stone
  to white stone, ignorant and singing,
  dreaming of him as he is.
  
  (bkz: rewriting)
• (bkz: the robber bride)