Introduction

Freddi kruger's glove was iconic, all leather and metal and fish knives. Just a glimpse of it was enough to send shivers down the spines of millions. The chain saw, with its screaming motor and biting teeth, filled many nightmares. There are many stories of a killer who uses a hook, from i know what you did last summer to an early episode of supernatural. And who could forget the wooden stake that makes an appearance in almost every am pire movie? But no tool of destruction has been more prolific and more horific than the axe. A little over a century ago, those nightmares became reality.