Penny Dreadfuls : sensational tales of terror

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"Welcome to Penny Dreadfuls, an anthology of twenty "sensation stories" all first published in the nineteenth century. The original penny dreadfuls were cheaply printed, inexpensive publications written to titillate the masses with shocking thrills and lurid horrors. Over time, "penny dreadful" became a catch-phrase for any story steeped in gothic horror that pushed the limits of what was acceptable in popular fiction"-- Inside cover.

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Horror Fiction

Horror tales, English

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ISBN:

9781435157217

Description:

xiii, 666 pages ; 24 cm

Contents:

Frankenstein; or The Modern Prometheus / Mary Shelley
The Adventure of the German Student / Washington Irving
The Wehr-Wolf: A Legend of the Limousin / Richard Thomson
The Pit and the Pendulum / Edgar Allan Poe
Sawney Beane: The Man Eater / Charles Whitehead
Aurelia; or, The Tale of a Ghoul / E.T.A. Hoffmann
Wake Not the Dead!; or, The Bride of the Grave / Johann Ludwig Tieck
The Dream-Woman / Wilkie Collins
A Night in the Grave; or, The Devil's Receipt / Anonymous
The Case of Lady Sannox / Arthur Conan Doyle
The Diary of a Madam / Guy De Maupassant
George Dobson's Expedition to Hell / James Hogg
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde / Robert Louis Stevenson
The Apparition of Lord Tyrone to Lady Beresford / Anonymous
Lost in a Pyramid; or, the Mummy's Curse / Louise May Alcott
In Kropfsburg Keep / Ralph Adams Cram
The Buried Alive / John Galt
The Dualitists; or, The Death-Doom of the Double-Born / Bram Stoker
The Executioner / William Godwin
The String of Pearls; or, Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet-street / James Malcom Rymer

LCCN:

2016479835

Control Number:

3334206

Other Authors:

Dziemianowicz, Stefan R., compiler

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