. (mote) wrote in rooms, @ 2015-05-07 13:28:00 |
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Entry tags: | !penny dreadful(s), *news |
News: Penny Dreadful(s)
[She reads of it in the morning paper, the headline bold and the ink still wet. MAN FOUND DEAD IN PARK. The article is truly dreadful. It tells of a man drained of all his blood, and the police believe it to be the work of some madman. She reads a little more carefully than she ought, as she drinks her tea, and even the morning maid has to look away from the gruesome words. There are no pictures, as it would be considered in poor taste, but there is mention of the crime scene in lurid detail. The man, heavy and aged 30, was found near Vauxhall Gardens, dragged away from the path leading to the conservatory, and the marks his body left still there, upon the walk.
The Garden closes for the day, and police have no theories as to the manner of the man's death, save that he seems to be quite exsanguinated without visible wounds to be found. In a bored London, this murder is all the rage that day, where whispers skitter from the cheapside docks to the fashionable homes. The police advise caution and seclusion in the evenings, but tickets to a new play at the Grand Guignol sell out early that day, once fliers announce the new performance to be in honor of the recently deceased man.]