By Yuting Zhao Copyright ©2026 They say the devil feeds on love and fear. Human beings madly adore what terrifies them—that’s precisely what makes them so deliciously irresistible to the devil. Satan, Death, Count Dracula, even the Phantom of the Opera—they feast upon us, especially upon women, right there from the stage. It’s always a consensual transaction: surrender, self-destruction, death. The world has taught women to crave these things.  The doorbell rang. I hadn’t lef