Strange Victoriana: Tales of the Curious, the Weird and the Uncanny from Our Victorian Ancestors

by Jan Bondeson

Book Overview

This book makes use of a privately held archive of the old periodical Illustrated Police News to describe strange, macabre and uncanny episodes from the Victorian era. Dog-Faced Men are exhibited on stage, the doctors congregate around the bed of the Sleeping Frenchman of Soho, Miss Vint demonstrates her Reincarnated Cats, and scantily dressed Female Somnambulists tumble from the roofs. From the spectral world, we have the Haunted Murder House near...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1445686554
• ISBN13: 9781445686554
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: Amberley Publishing
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.0" x 7.7"