tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4641755242350379907.post6158775488516017474..comments2024-03-27T10:53:14.239-04:00Comments on Wormwoodiana: John P. Quaine: Catalogue of Penny Bloods (1931)Douglas A. Andersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16844859516228160123noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4641755242350379907.post-68158869645719360042022-08-11T16:58:41.963-04:002022-08-11T16:58:41.963-04:00Thanks for the comments The Malum! One intriguing...Thanks for the comments The Malum! One intriguing thing about the phantom Sawney Bean penny dreadful is that George C. Foster claimed to have seen it in the collection of Barry Ono: you can read the article in issue 16 of the Collectors Digest: http://www.friardale.co.uk/Collectors%20Digest/1948-04-CollectorsDigest-v02-n016.pdf The article was published long after Ono's death, but it is James Doighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00122814918462610034noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4641755242350379907.post-73204450870696179002022-08-11T08:33:26.547-04:002022-08-11T08:33:26.547-04:00After posting this comment I did more reading. I d...After posting this comment I did more reading. I did not realize how old the Sawney Bean legend is! There's no way it came from anything printed!The Malumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12971459955701026406noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4641755242350379907.post-15746263930786376632022-08-09T19:21:07.450-04:002022-08-09T19:21:07.450-04:00While reading your list, I was pondering the "...While reading your list, I was pondering the "Sawney Beane" title and the little bit of reading I've done about the real-life Sawney Bean, and I remembered there was some scholarly debate about whether or not he is even real. I wonder now about the likelihood of an incredibly tiny press run of "Sawney Beane" penny dreadfuls being repeated as fact by others and then the The Malumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12971459955701026406noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4641755242350379907.post-37407740880738557502021-02-13T20:46:29.082-05:002021-02-13T20:46:29.082-05:00My bad! I have to say I still don't buy the &q...My bad! I have to say I still don't buy the "elude the priest" theory. Thanks for the correction, JohnSandy Robertsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08064756302394502872noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4641755242350379907.post-20636866540790946492021-02-13T15:58:11.581-05:002021-02-13T15:58:11.581-05:00You're referring to the Prologue, which was au...You're referring to the Prologue, which was authored by esteem Summers scholar Dr. Gerard P. O’Sullivan.John Edgar Browninghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12801647705974910928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4641755242350379907.post-70213534227321423312019-03-22T16:03:17.036-04:002019-03-22T16:03:17.036-04:00Thanks Michael and Sandy. I much prefer "Devi...Thanks Michael and Sandy. I much prefer "Devilbug the One-Eyed Ghoul."James Doighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00122814918462610034noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4641755242350379907.post-47927313844073825052019-03-21T23:18:26.857-04:002019-03-21T23:18:26.857-04:00Also, No. 115 is obviously a retitling of George L...Also, No. 115 is obviously a retitling of George Lippard's The Quaker City or The Monk's of Monk Hall. Michael Dirdahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00901144234768066002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4641755242350379907.post-30672869227532196742019-03-21T19:22:37.564-04:002019-03-21T19:22:37.564-04:00In John Edgar Browning's edition of Summers...In John Edgar Browning's edition of Summers's The Vampire His Kith and Kin,he posits that the catalogue reference to the author and publisher of The Skeleton Clutch as "T.Prest" and "E.Loyd" is a joke meaning "elude the priest". While I love Browning's work, this seems a bit far fetched as surely he'd know that Prest and Loyd were a noted duo who Sandy Robertsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08064756302394502872noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4641755242350379907.post-52911315517442152142019-03-21T18:12:16.336-04:002019-03-21T18:12:16.336-04:00Many thanks, James. I look forward to reading thro...Many thanks, James. I look forward to reading through the catalogue more slowly later tonight (here in Wash DC). Seeing some of these titles reminds me of the half dozen or so similiar ones that Oscar Wilde presumably made up for "The Canterville Ghost." Creating convincing Penny Dreadful titles might make an excellent party game.--mdMichael Dirdahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00901144234768066002noreply@blogger.com