Penny Dreadfuls: Sensational Tales of Terror

by Stefan R. Dziemianowicz and E.T.A. Hoffmann

Book Overview

666 pages of shocking sensational stories from the Victorian era, twenty in all including such classics as James Malcolm Rymer's The String of Pearls or Sweeny Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet-Street, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus, Guy De Maupassant's The Diary of a Madman or Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. The original penny dreadfuls were cheaply printed, inexpensive publications written to titillate...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1435157214
• ISBN13: 9781435157217
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Fall River Pr
• Length: 680 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 2.3" x 6.5"