The screename comes from the genius of Roberta Williams' classic seven disc horry mystery game To the unfamiliar I have written a short review of the game for you.
After trading their noisy Boston condo for a bizarre gothic mansion on a small off-shore island along the New England coastline, Adrienne and Donald Gordon are slowly enveloped in a mystery of boundless, supernatural proportions. What is the secret that is locked inside this place, that infects this house? There's the previous owner, Zoltan Carnovaush, the famous illusionist who died inside its walls a hundred years ago. What kind of magic was he really into? What happened to the many wives who shared his shadowy world? Didn't he have a couple of children, a little boy and girl? As you take on the role of Adrienne, you are doomed to become the center of attraction for this horrifying entity.
Zoltan Carnovaush was a highly respected, wealthy, world renowned stage magician in the closing years of the nineteenth century who became demoralised over his inability to perform real magic as opposed to the mere "tricks" he conducted in front of his audiences in his "Phantasmagoria" show. To alleviate his concerns, he purchased a spellbook dedicated to the black arts that allowed him to carelessly summon from the dark depths of the underworld "an evil who has no name" which is the ultimate cause of the horrible events chronicled in Phantasmagoria. Once possessed by this evil demon, Carno soon slid into the cunning depravity of a serial killer.
Over a period spanning a decade, Carno married five times and secretly killed each of his mostly unsuspecting wives when they either tired of his inconsistent behaviour or he grew weary of their own personalities. It all began with the shovelling soil down the mouth with a sharp bladed trowel murder of Hortencia who gradually preferred gardening to spending time with her deranged husband, and relentlessly continued with the wine bottle in the eye socket slaying of the drunken Victoria. Three more gruesome murders of his wives followed - each more perversely inventive than the last - before Carno's final wife's lover, Gaston, impaled the evil magician on an iron pole with his dying breath. As the demon left his body, Carno made the Sign of the Cross before his soul departed to the spirit world for repentance.
Zoltan Carnovaush appears as a gray haired middle aged man of average build with a piercing gaze. He speaks with a vague Italian accent and his preferred clothing includes a smoking jacket and traditional magician's attire - a long cape and top hat.
UPDATE: 4/30/02 - I have just gathered some pictures and created a new gallery known as the Asshole Archives, more details inside
UPDATE: 3/4/03 - There are some new updates to be added to this page, for one the Evil Red Saturn has died on 1-12-03 with 109,885 miles after eating a guardrail on Route 43 in Ohio. Its replacement, a 2003 Dodge Neon SXT will be pictured here soon.
