The Weird and the Wonderful DXXI: The Hangman's Daughter by Sláva Václav Jelínek

Today we return to the work of infamous graphomaniac Sláva Václav Jelínek . Today we will cover his 1932 romance, "The Hangman's Daughter", a tale of the eighteenth century, where a fiendish master criminal, who had already escaped from the literal gallows once, ishinding in an ancient robber castle full of hidden passageways and deadly traps, after he steals a young woman from her family, while coming to know the dark secret of her origin, one of which even she is fully ignorant, all happening in the backdrop of the last great Black Plague epidemic scourging the country.
The images used are courtesy of 1gr.cz and cdn.aukro.cz and are used under the principles of fair use.
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[@StephenRansom47]

👏 bravo … This motif struck me as a bit hilarious … The Hangman’s Daughter 🤔 I wonder if it’s some early form of The Wrong Side of the Tracks 🤔 Always a fascinating romp. 🙏

[@WeirdWonderful]

The wrong side of the tracks ?

[@StephenRansom47]

@@WeirdWonderful My dad is a Coal Miner, or I’m from a poor family… The poor part of town- The Other Side of the Tracks.