Tod Robbins

Sheafe wrote the tune in 1905, Allen set the music down on paper in 1909, and Robbins provided the words.

His work often contains bizarre and frightening plots, sometimes influenced by writers like Oscar Wilde (Robbins' "The Living Portrait" is a homage to The Picture of Dorian Gray)[1] and Robert W.

Robbins was also the author of the short story "Spurs", which Browning used as the basis for Freaks (1932), a film which later developed a cult following.

Some of Robbins's work was later reprinted in the "Creeps" series of horror anthologies edited by Charles Birkin.

[4] Robbins emigrated to the French Riviera from New York City and refused to leave during the Nazi occupation of France.