Victorian Trash
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 ก.ย. 2024
- Books mentioned:
∴ Penny Bloods: Gothic Tales of Dangerous Women (British Library Hardback Classics) by Nicole C. Dittmer ed.
∴ Penny Dreadful Classics - The Shadowless Rider: Or, The League of the Cross of Blood
∴ From the Penny Dreadful to the Ha'penny Dreadfuller: A Bibliographical History of the British Boys' Periodical 1762-1950 by Robert J. Kirkpatrick
∴ The Quest For Bloods, Private Circulation, by Arthur Edward Waite
∴ yes of Terror and Other Dark Adventures by L. T. Meade (Author), Janis Dawson
∴ The Face in the Glass: The Gothic Tales of Mary Elizabeth Braddon
∴ The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of Edward Bulwer Lytton-Volume 3
∴ Many Frankenstein books, holler if you want deets
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Weekly prompts:
1st to 10th August - Anything Goes
11th to 17th August - Category Romance or Men's Adventure
18th to 24th August - Sex and/or Violence
25th to 31st August - A novelisation or a book that was turned into a 70s or 80s mini series
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The Garbingo card:
Modern trash
Host recommendation
Trash in translation
Green on the cover
Nudity on the cover/poster
You wouldn't read/watch on the bus
In 3D - 3D movie or stepback
Killer Kids
Cults
Sexy Vampires
Vigilantes
Moral Panic
Long running series
Killer animals
Conspiracy theory
Pseudonym
More than 2 guns on the cover
Based on a videogame
Gangs
! in the title
Weirdly specific sub-genre
Kinky sex
Drugs
Ninjas/Martial arts
Giallo
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11th to 17th August - Happy GarbAugust selfie
18th to 24th August - Fave trashy book or author
25th to 31st August - Your trashiest covers
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What great ideas! Now I must write you back.
Look! You have the coveted "not available new over here" : The Face in the Glass: The Gothic Tales of Mary Elizabeth Braddon!!
@@waltera13 Braddon denied!
Yup. Recognising myself. lol. I’m royalty I am my shelves filled with trash in case I’m caught red handed committing a crime I need a good excuse don’t I.
@ObscureBookAdventures It is a cast iron excuse for any malfeasance!
06:13 'The String of Pearls, or the Sailor's Gift'
Well done for keeping a straight face with that one. 👍
@@parlabaneisback 😂😂😂
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@@parlabaneisback I might splash out on the original magazines
@@royreadsanything I think I saw a cartoon version in a Captain Pugwash Annual from the seventies.
@@parlabaneisback 😂😂😂
An excellent video, Roy! It's obvious that you put much thought and research into it and some of those books sound rather fascinating!
@@MoonstoneCastle1 Thanks! I was rather uncertain about this one as the topic could be explored a lot more
@@royreadsanything Yes, maybe you could make a part two video later, and I was thinking that perhaps you could expand this into Edwardian era books too. This is off the topic, but I wondered if you like Dornford Yates?
One of the novels of Edward Bulwer Lyttons proto science fiction provided the inspiration for the naming of Bovril beef tea. Bovine vril. Vril meaning "life force." Forget the name of the book.
@@danielcalderwood6674 Gosh - yes - was it The Coming Race? I think @GenreBooks23 made a video about it featuring some stock footage
Quite likely. I read about that piece of trivia decades ago, and it has always stuck in my mind. The Bovril connection, not the book!
@@royreadsanythingI think The Coming Race is part of Silver Nitrate's plot. Silvia Moreno-Garcia, highly recommend 😀 Led to some astonishing Googles!
Great video! Nice to see the penny dreadfuls explicated by an expert.
Pleased to see you mention Swan River Press, for which my pal Brian Showers is the publisher. He produces very nice books. Lots of ghost stories and things up your alley. The colophon for his press--the sculpted face is a keystone in an arch for one of Dublin's bridges--I drew for one of Brian's books of short stories.
@duanespurlock5879 I hope to give them a proper shout out when I've read the book
You need a classy pipe to go with that classy smoking jacket and ascot. You talked me into buying BOYS WILL BE BOYS. Thanks. I couldn’t afford the humongous hardback in red due to the price. It’s a whopper.
@rickcroucher Turner is all anyone needs really. Did Noel Coward smoke a pipe I wonder?
@@royreadsanything nope. Cigarettes all the way
I think that's the first time I've heard someone refer to "salad days" in a conversation...
@@KatJack-vl8xj Apart from Cleopatra?
@@royreadsanything Of course. She didn't deign to speak to me...
I didn't think Victorian trash was possible...but ....damn.
They were called penny dreadfuls not because of the content, but the quality of the writing.
@InfiniteText Arguably lots of enduring work rose from a sea of trash. Though apparently academics are reappearing some of the lost authors. I was at a conference where one of the boffins remarked that all her students seemed to be writing about Braddon and Corelli, and that it would be nice to see an essay about the Brontes for a change!
This was delightful... I may have just bought a copy of Lady Audley's Secret, it sounds fantastic!
Excellent. I hope you enjoy it - great news about the transplant list BTW 😀
I saw a police report where a young man, named Oliver, was putting Sexecutioner books on the train tracks. Tisk tisk.
Hail to the historical legacy of trash! 🤘🗑🤘
An American psychiatrist wrote a book on the horror comics of the 1950s, Seduction of the Innocent.Reminds you of the furore over so called "video nasties." Nothing new under the sun.
@@Cherbookie 😂😂😂
@@danielcalderwood6674 I agree, same thing with different media.
I broke a window in 1977 after reading Action comic. Not sure the events are really connected, but still.
@bertsbooks2505 From what I remember of Action I'm not at all surprised!
@@royreadsanything 'Aggro! Is a way of life! In Kids Rule OK!!!'
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I presume you know that the Carl Dreadstone Bride of Frankenstein is actually by Ramsey Campbell.
@@davebrzeski Yes, though I understand he didn't write all of them?
@@royreadsanything No, Ramsey wrote 'The Bride of Frankenstein', 'Dracula's Daughter' and 'The Wolfman'. Walter Harris wrote 'The Creature from the Black Lagoon' and 'The Werewolf of London'. No one has any idea who actually wrote 'The Mummy'.
A few, but not all of the series were reprinted a few years later under the name E.K. Leyton.
@@davebrzeski Thanks - I have the Wolfman as Leyton - not such a cool cover though.
Great video Roy! I’d heard of Penny Dreadfuls and Varney the Vampire but the sheer length of the latter has put me off. I did read my first Mary Elizabeth Braddon this year though, The Trail of the Serpent which was her first novel, brilliant fun! There was every crime and mystery trope under the sun but back then maybe it was all entirely innovative. 🤷♀️Definitely going to read more of her. How are you enjoying The Doctor’s Wife?
The Doctor's Wife is great - it has a sensation novelist character called Sigismund Smith (!) who expounds his theory of borrowing and combining elements to make a story. A wry comment on her own trope-jukebox approach maybe.
Glad you’re enjoying it, it might turn out to be the group read for Victober. I couldn’t resist The Trail of the Serpent when I read the first line, ‘I don’t suppose it rained harder in the good town of Slopperton-on-the-Sloshy than it rained anywhere else’. You know that’s an author with a sense of humor!