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Sweeney Todd runs a barber shop on London¿s Fleet Street. Secretly, Todd murders his patrons, turning them over to his accomplice who uses their flesh to make her popular meat pies. When a sailor goes missing, his friends follow a trail of clues that ends at Todd¿s door. Sweeney Todd: The Barber of Fleet Street is an influential penny dreadful novel.

Sweeney Todd runs a barber shop on London’s Fleet Street. Secretly, Todd murders his patrons, turning them over to his accomplice who uses their flesh to make her popular meat pies. When a sailor goes missing, his friends follow a trail of clues that ends at Todd’s door. Sweeney Todd: The Barber of Fleet Street is an influential penny dreadful novel.

This classic "pennydreadful" novel, first serialzed in the years 1846-1847, has been thrilling and chilling audiences for a hundred and seventy-four YEARS. Celebrated on stage and screen, the story of the mad, murderous barber Sweeney Todd, who holds forth as the king of a muderous court in old, wicked London, is a grim and grisly gothic horror epic the likes of whcih the reader is not soon to forget. Bloody and weird, this sordid saga of sadi...

This is the mystery novel that started it all: The gruesome legend about the "demon barber of Fleet Street." Many people still believe that Sweeney Todd and his aide, the pie-baking Mrs Lovett next door, were real people living at the turn of the century 1800, the time period in which the story is set, but The String of Pearls is in fact pure fantasy, based on a French myth which has been traced down to the 17th century, "The bloody legend abo...

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