Stella, Maneater from Manayunk - Late night femme fatale and hostess of Saturday Night Dead, a local Philadelphia horror show seen on KYW-TV Channel 3 at 1:00 AM in the 1980s. Known as that "Maneater from Manayunk" (a section near the Schuylkill River) or the "Daughter of Desire," Stella delighted in half-clad gorgeous young men and often had one or two hanging in her dungeon awaiting her pleasure. The program's two main attractions were Stella's cleavage (that's one) and her "B" horror movies which she introduced at the beginning of each show. Watching Stella was akin to watching a traffic accident. You knew you shouldn't watch but you were obliged to do so, anyway. According to her biography, Stella was "born in North Libido, New Jersey, a small village outside of Atlantic City. She is the only child of traveling hecklers. Her parents dropped her in a plastic basket at Fifth and Skunk in front of Guido's Hair Weaving and Plumbing Supplies, but for all intents and purposes she was raised by a flock of pigeons". Reincarnated 37 times, Stella was just your typical "ghoul" next door. The real person behind Stella's lewd puns and plunging neckline was Karen Scioli, a South Philadelphia born actress and homemaker who weekly donned a pushup bra, slinky black dress, feather boa, false eyelashes and a mole on her right cheek to become the female vampiress, Stella, the Maneater of Manayunk. Scioli played the "camp" role remarking, "There's a little slut locked up in all of us" (Philadelphia Inquirer Supplement 6/15/86). At the end of a 1987 program Stella smeared whip cream on the chest of a male prisoner chained and shackled in her dungeon and then with a spoon, she began to eat the cream off his body. Once a book was written about Stella. It was titled Every Way. Despite the suggestiveness, the program was lighthearted and good-natured. Other regulars on the program were Stella's canopied-bed called "Beda Lugosi" which talked and vibrated; Hives the Butler (Bob Billbrough); and a faceless dungeon monster named Iggy who ate anybody Stella didn't like. See also "Dr. Shock" and "Zacherley"