Madame Dedlock, Charles Dickens’ Bleak House.
Uriah Heep. Although I always thought that Magwitch would make a better metal name.
XD x 3
Miller, you gotta admit, you really tripped and fell into that one!
Granted it’s Heep for the win, I’ll still submit for the heck of it: Paul Morpeth, from Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth [from 1905, it barely squeaks in the Vic. Age].
And my submission for the Most Star Wars name in Vic Lit is Carry Fisher, from the same novel.
Frankenstein
You could work an umlaut in pretty easy, to boot.
If we’re going to be pedantic about it, we have to DQ the posts of both **Sage Rat **and yours truly because the Victorian Era ran from June 1837 to January 1901, at least according to Wiki. (And Mary Shelley’s novel was published in 1831, and Wharton’s, in 1905.)
Talk about tripping and falling into it… :o
Van Helsing
So would Murdstone, for that matter.
Not very subtle, but how about the “Genius of Despair and Suicide” in Dickens’ Nicholas Nickleby?
Well, considering that literature from that period has already been somewhat scavenged by metal bands (Fantomas springs to mind) I have to nominate:
Psammead
Solarion
The Strid
and for a goth metal band, can there be a better name waiting out there than Vampire Bomb?
Dickens is a treasury of names for metal bands.
**Abel Magwitch
McChoakumchild
Bentley Drummle
‘Fascination’ Fledgeby
Mealy Potatoes
Pumblechook
Rogue Riderhood
Zephaniah Scadder
Poll Sweedlepipe
Wackford Squeers
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Rogue Riderhood sounds more like a porn name than a metal name.
Yeah, and what about “Whackford Squeers”?
Did “Dracula” become too mainstream?
No love for Gradgrind?
Starring Tera Patrick, with Ron Jeremy as Principal Pickledick.
Morlocks!
Never mind the Morlocks, here’s the Sex Pistols.
David Copperfield, I should think.