Thomas Peckett Prest

Author · 6 books

Thomas Peckett Prest, also known as Thomas Preskett Prest, was a British hack writer, journalist and musician. He was a prolific producer of penny dreadfuls. He is now remembered as the co-creator with James Malcolm Rymer of the fictional Sweeney Todd, the 'demon barber' immortalized in his The String of Pearls. He has also been associated with the authorship of Varney the Vampire, now more often thought to be the work of Rymer. He wrote under pseudonyms including Bos, a takeoff of Charles Dickens' own pen name, Boz. Before joining Edward Lloyd's publishing factory, Prest had made a name for himself as a talented musician and composer.

Books

Sweeney Todd

The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

1847

Deep, Dark & Unsettling

100+ Gothic Classics in One Edition: Novels, Tales and Poems: The Mysteries of Udolpho, The Tell-Tale Heart, Wuthering Heights, ... Rhine, The Headless Horseman & many more

2018

Flesh-Ripping Ghouls of London

Murder, Madness & Gore from the Penny Bloods

2012

The Greatest Gothic Classics of All Time

60+ Books in One Volume: Frankenstein, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Phantom Ship, The Birth Mark, The Headless Horseman…

2020

Sweeney Todd

The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

2007

Varney the Vampire, Volume I

2003