Penny Dreadfuls: Sensational Tales of Terror

Penny Dreadfuls: Sensational Tales of Terror

by Various Authors
Penny Dreadfuls: Sensational Tales of Terror

Penny Dreadfuls: Sensational Tales of Terror

by Various Authors

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Overview

Murder! Body-snatching! Premature burial! Cannibalism! Writers of the Victorian era sure knew how to spice up their fiction and tell ripping yarns!
 
Penny Dreadfuls is an anthology of sensational terror tales all first published in the nineteenth century. The original penny dreadfuls were cheaply printed, inexpensive publications written to entertain the masses with shocking thrills and lurid horrors. Over time, "penny dreadful" became a catch-hrase for any story steeped in gothic horror that pushed the limits of what was acceptable in popular fiction.
 
The twenty stories collected for this volume include two full-length novels—The String of Pearls, the novel that immortalized Sweeney Todd, the demon-barber of Fleet-street; and the original 1818 edition of Mary Shelleys classic tale of a man-made monster, Frankenstein—as well as tales by Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Louis Stevenson, Bram Stoker, Louisa May Alcott, and Arthur Conan Doyle.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781435157217
Publisher: Fall River Press
Publication date: 12/29/2014
Series: Amazing Values Series
Pages: 680
Product dimensions: 6.30(w) x 9.10(h) x 2.20(d)
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