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Thomas P. Prest / Thomas Preskett Prest
Book List in Order: 17 titles
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Ernnestine de Lacy: Or, the Robber's Foundling: An Old English Romance
- 1842
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Excerpt from Ernnestine De Lacy, or the Robber's Foundling: An Old English Romance
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The String of Pearls
Beware the blood-soaked razor of Sweeney Todd, demon barber of Fleet Street! Johanna Oakley's lover, Mark, has gone missing in suspicious circumstances. And the man who was meant to deliver Mark's last gift to her, a string of pearls, has gone missin...
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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Thomas Prest was a prolific and popular writer of Victorian 'penny dreadfuls'. The 'demon barber', Sweeney Todd, was his most famous and successful creation. Many of the penny dreadful stories, particularly those dating back to the 19...
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Varney the Vampire; Or, the Feast of Blood
Set during the reign of King George II, this gruesome tale concerns the persecution of the Bannerworth family by Sir Francis Varney: a vampire who has developed the habit of creeping into the Bannerworth home and sucking the blood of their daughter, ...
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Vileroy or the Horrors of Zindorf Castle
'Zindorff' was wildly popular in the 1850s, outselling works by Dickens and Thackeray, but has now largely been forgotten. All the tropes of the early 'penny dreadful' are here: a quintessential Gothic romance, replete with incidents of physical and ...
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Vrykolakas Undead: A Vampire's Unrequited Love
This book continues the story from Vrykolakas Undead: The Vampire Romance of Archimedes Victor. Sir Archimedes Victor, now known as a Vrykolakas (Greek Vampire), continues his pursuit of Alessandra. Alessandra remains torn between this creature, Si...
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Flesh-Ripping Ghouls of London: Murder, Madness & Mayhem from the Penny Bloods
"At the beginning of the 19th century, higher standards of education, the invention of fast and efficient printing presses, and cheap paper production combined to create a new, mass market for literature in England: sensationalistic, graphic ""shilli...
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