![]() ![]() The tale’s popularity resulted in dozens of variously titled reprints, imitations, and stage adaptations. Urban legends involving gruesomely sourced fast-food had circulated for decades before his appearance, but the story of Sweeney Todd has been the most enduring. ![]() This latter fact is only implied until quite late in the book, but the reader will discern the grisly truth almost immediately. Sweeney Todd, a Fleet Street barber, murders and robs his customers and their remains are profitably made into delicious meat pies by his accomplice, Mrs Lovett. “The String of Pearls” is a very entertaining, macabre Victorian horror story, well-seasoned with ironic humor, and populated with rather Dickensian characters. The String of Pearls or, Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. ![]()
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