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The Penny Dreadful Or, Strange, Horrid & Sensational Tales!
Extremely rare and hard to find.
An anthology of stories edited by Peter Haining (English author 1940 -2007) with original illustrations.
Published by Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1975 hard cover.
ISBN: 0-575-01779-1
Discarded library book in a very good collectable and readable condition. Usual stamps and marks with such books, light staining of front pages pre title page and fore edge, binding tight, cover red boards nicely protected by dust jacket with gilt gold lettering on the spine. Pp 382 including bibliography.
Approx book dimensions: 200 mm x 130 mm x 40 mm
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.
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