Contents
Introduction / [Peter Haining]
The terrific register: "The monster of Scotland"
The calendar of horrors - Edward Lloyd, publisher : "The dead alive"
The life of Dick Turpin - W.M. Clarke, publisher: "The robbery of the astrologer"
Robin Hood by Pierce Egan Jr: "The ambush of death"
Dombey and daughter by Renton Nicholson: "The actor's tale"
The mysteries of London by G.W.M. Renolds: "The body snatchers"
Sweeney Todd by Thomas Peckett Prest: "The last batch of pies"
Varney the vampire by James Malcolm Rymer: "The resuscitation of a vampire"
Jessie, the Mormon's daughter by Percy B. St John: "Buried alive!"
The shipwrecked stranger by Hannah Maria Jones: "The life of a murderer"
Paul the poacher by Thomas Frost: "The abduction"
The merry wives of London by James Lindridge: "The episode of the knights of the round table"
Sister Anne by Paul de Kock
The raft of death / Eugene Sue
The mad wolf / Ned Buntline
The league of "The Thirty" / J.H. Ingraham
The people's periodical - Edward Lloyd, publisher: "Confessions Of A Deformed Lunatic"
Reynolds' Miscellany - G.W.M. Reynolds, publisher "The Rosicrucian"
The London Journal - George Stiff, publisher: "Stanfield Hall"
Boys of England - Edwin Brett, publisher: "Jack Rushton: Or, Alone In The Pirate's Lair"
Caractacus, champion of the Arena - George Emmett and Harcourt Burrage: "The arena of blood"
Guy Falkes by G.A. Sala: "The vault of death"
Jack Harkaway by Bracebridge Hemyng: "The road to adventure".
Appendices "Penny packets of poison" / James Greenwood
"Horrible murder and human pie-makers"
"To my readers" / George Reynolds.
Bibliography