PENNY
DREADFULS
"I have waited
for this day."
(from
The
"Boys First-Rate Pocket Library" No. 30)
What are "Penny Dreadfuls"?
"A Short Way to Newgate"
A Critique of Dreadfuls by James Greenwood, 1874.
"Preface"
A Defence of Dreadfuls from the first volume of The Terrific Register,
1825.
"The Byways of Literature: Reading for the Million."
Selections from a Blackwood's essay (1858) concerning penny magazines,
popularity, and the poor.
A SELECTION
OF STORIES
The Body-Snatchers
Dreadful Account of Cannibalism
Extraordinary Female Duel
Horrid Parricide
The Life of Dick Turpin
Providential Escape of a French Traveller
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