Author Description

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 sadism will keep the reader up many long, dreary, and dreadfully nightmarish nights.