The author of "The String of Pearls" (the story of Sweeney Todd) and coincidentally, "Varney the Vampire," was James Malcolm Rymer (1814-1884). "Varney the Vampire" was the inspiration for Bram Stoker's "Dracula."
Rymer became a Freemason of the United Industrious Lodge of Canterbury in 1862.
His masterpiece, Sweeney Todd, is a musical about cannibalism whose leading characters murder, cook, and serve human flesh for profit.
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The author of "The String of Pearls" (the story of Sweeney Todd) and coincidentally, "Varney the Vampire," was James Malcolm Rymer (1814-1884). "Varney the Vampire" was the inspiration for Bram Stoker's "Dracula."
Rymer became a Freemason of the United Industrious Lodge of Canterbury in 1862.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Malcolm_Rymer
Welp, that's certainly not what you'd call NORMAL