- Hardcover: 224 pages
- Publisher: Littlehampton Book Services Ltd (9 Jan 1975)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0575017791
- ISBN-13: 978-0575017795
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,364,274 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Format:Hardcover
Sensational and gory stories from the pages of the Victorian 'Penny Dreadful' booklets
List of contents:
Introduction - Peter Haining
Anon - The Monster Of Scotland (from "The Terrific Register")
Anon - The Dead Alive ("The Calendar Of Horrors")
Anon - The Robbery Of The Astrologer ("The Life Of Dick Turpin")
Pierce Egan jnr. - The Ambush Of Death ("Robin Hood")
Renton Nicholson - The Actor's Tale ("Dombey And Daughter")
G. W. M. Reynolds - The Body-Snatchers ("Mysteries Of London")
Thomas Peckett Prest - The Last Batch Of Pies ("Sweeney Todd")
James Malcolm Rymer - The Resuscitation Of A Vampyre ("Varney The Vampyre")
Percy B. St. John - Buried Alive! ("Jessie, The Mormon's Daughter")
Hannah Maria Jones - The Life Of A Murderer ("The Shipwrecked Stranger")
Thomas Frost - The Abduction ("Paul The Poacher")
James Lindridge - The Episode Of The Knights Of The Round Table ("The Merry Wives Of London")
Paul de Kock - Sister Anne
Eugene Sue - The Raft Of Death
Ned Buntine - The Mad Wolf
J. H. Ingraham - The League Of `The Thirty'
Anon - Confessions Of A Deformed Lunatic ("The People's Periodical")
Anon - The Rosicrucian ("Reynolds Miscellany")
Anon - Stanfield Hall ("London Journal")
Anon - "Jack Rushton: or, Alone In The Pirates' Lair ("Boys Of England")
Anon - Caractacus, Champion Of The Arena ("The Arena Of Blood")
G. A. Sala - The Vault Of Death ("Guy Fawkes")
Bracebridge Hemyng - Jack Harkaway ("The Road To Adventure")
Appendices:
James Greenwood - "Penny Packets Of Poison"
" Horrible Murder And Human Pie-Makers"
George Reynolds - To My Readers
Bibliography
List of contents:
Introduction - Peter Haining
Anon - The Monster Of Scotland (from "The Terrific Register")
Anon - The Dead Alive ("The Calendar Of Horrors")
Anon - The Robbery Of The Astrologer ("The Life Of Dick Turpin")
Pierce Egan jnr. - The Ambush Of Death ("Robin Hood")
Renton Nicholson - The Actor's Tale ("Dombey And Daughter")
G. W. M. Reynolds - The Body-Snatchers ("Mysteries Of London")
Thomas Peckett Prest - The Last Batch Of Pies ("Sweeney Todd")
James Malcolm Rymer - The Resuscitation Of A Vampyre ("Varney The Vampyre")
Percy B. St. John - Buried Alive! ("Jessie, The Mormon's Daughter")
Hannah Maria Jones - The Life Of A Murderer ("The Shipwrecked Stranger")
Thomas Frost - The Abduction ("Paul The Poacher")
James Lindridge - The Episode Of The Knights Of The Round Table ("The Merry Wives Of London")
Paul de Kock - Sister Anne
Eugene Sue - The Raft Of Death
Ned Buntine - The Mad Wolf
J. H. Ingraham - The League Of `The Thirty'
Anon - Confessions Of A Deformed Lunatic ("The People's Periodical")
Anon - The Rosicrucian ("Reynolds Miscellany")
Anon - Stanfield Hall ("London Journal")
Anon - "Jack Rushton: or, Alone In The Pirates' Lair ("Boys Of England")
Anon - Caractacus, Champion Of The Arena ("The Arena Of Blood")
G. A. Sala - The Vault Of Death ("Guy Fawkes")
Bracebridge Hemyng - Jack Harkaway ("The Road To Adventure")
Appendices:
James Greenwood - "Penny Packets Of Poison"
" Horrible Murder And Human Pie-Makers"
George Reynolds - To My Readers
Bibliography
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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Peter Haining's books are always of interest. I have heard of 'Penny Dreadfuls' but as they are fairly rare and expensive (they cost a little more than a penny now) I've had very little exposure to them beyond a few prints in Peter Haining's Terror! book. The book has a good introduction, as well as short but useful intros to all the stories. I've never read any of the authors before, some were good, some terrible. The book was worth every penny.
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