Brenda Has Risen from the Grave was a Bafflegab Productions audio story written by Paul Magrs and narrated by Anne Reid, along with Alex Lowe and Chris Pavlo.
Synopsis[]
Romance, it seems, has come Effie’s way. She has started to date Keith, a latterday Elephant Man who lives in a caravan. Brenda thinks her friend has had her head turned, and counsels against getting carried away. In her experience, the real Elephant Man didn't have a trunk and large ears.
Brenda, meanwhile, is having a flashback to her adventures in foggy London town during the 1880s. She was caught up in the hunt for a killer known as the London Monster – a murderer who left curious contusions on his victims’ bodies. Wounds that could only have been inflicted by some kind of prehensile trunk.
Now there’s a rash of murders on the streets of Whitby. Victims bear those same trunk-inflicted weals on their flesh. There has been a haunting trumpeting noise echoing through the alleyways at night. Effie won’t be warned, however. And what’s worse, Keith has recognised Brenda as his nineteenth century nemesis who turned him over to the police. Now Keith has decreed that Brenda must die – and that Effie must be his bride..!
Plot[]
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Characters[]
- Brenda
- Effie Jacobs
- Keith
- Joseph Merrick
- Diodati
- Basil
- DC Aikman
- Mrs Claus
- Henry Cleavis
- Reginald Tyler
- Jessie
- Robert
- Crispy Cat
Notes[]
- Keith claims that John Merrick was his great-great uncle. However, Brenda suspects that he is lying as John's real name was Joseph and he didn't actually resemble an elephant. It was ultimately revealed that Keith's real ancestor was the London Monster.
- Masks of Satan was Brenda's local pub in the 19th century.
Worldbuilding[]
- According to Brenda she had previously been a grave robber, a vagabond, a woman of ill repute, a warrior, a witch, a handmaiden to a Queen, a Sorcereer's assistant, and a lady pirate.
Continuity[]
- Brenda recalls her time in Diodati's circus where she performed alongside Joseph Merrick, a bearded lady, siamese twins, dancing midgets and aligator men. (PROSE: Fellowship of Ink)
- Several murders had occured in Whitby over the past few months and Brenda ackowledged that some of them were bound to be victims of the Crispy Cat whom she and Effie never truly stopped. (PROSE: The Woman in a Black Beehive)
- Brenda wishes that Henry Cleavis was still alive. (PROSE: Fellowship of Ink, Spicy Tea and Sympathy)
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