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The Penny Dreadful; or, Strange, Horrid & Sensational Tales!

Peter Haining

First published 1975
Publisher Gollancz
Format Hardcover
Type Anthology
Pages 382
Price £3.60
ISBN 0575017791

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Page Title Author(s) Type
13 Introduction (The Penny Dreadful; or, Strange, Horrid & Sensational Tales!) Peter Haining Essay
23 Terrific Register Peter Haining Essay
25 The Monster of Scotland uncredited Essay
30 Calendar of Horrors Peter Haining Essay
32 The Dead Alive; or, The Mendicant Robber of Orleans (excerpt) uncredited Short Fiction
36 The Life of Dick Turpin Peter Haining Essay
38 The Robbery of the Astrologer (excerpt) uncredited Short Fiction
50 The Ambush of Death (excerpt) Pierce Egan, Jr. Short Fiction
68 Actor's Tale (excerpt) Renton Nicholson Short Fiction
83 The Body-Snatchers (excerpt) G. W. M. Reynolds Short Fiction
95 Sweeney Todd Peter Haining Essay
97 The Last Batch of Pies Thomas Peckett Prest Short Story
121 The Resuscitation of a Vampire (excerpt) James Malcolm Rymer Short Fiction
134 Buried Alive! (excerpt) Percy B. St. John Short Fiction
146 The Life of a Murderer (excerpt) Hannah Maria Jones Short Fiction
162 The Abduction (excerpt) Thomas Frost Short Fiction
176 The Episode of the Knights of the Round Table (excerpt) James Lindridge Short Fiction
195 Sister Anne (excerpt) Paul de Kock Short Fiction
212 The Raft of Death Eugène Sue Short Story
229 The Mad Wolf Peter Haining Essay
232 The Mad Wolf Ned Buntline Short Story
244 The League of "The Thirty" J. H. Ingraham Short Story
264 The People's Periodical Peter Haining Essay
266 Confessions of a Deformed Lunatic E. P. Hingston Short Story
276 Reynolds' Miscellany Peter Haining Essay
278 The Rosicrucian Edwin F. Roberts Short Story
286 The London Journal Peter Haining Essay
296 Stanfield Hall (excerpt) J. F. Smith Short Fiction
302 Boys of England Peter Haining Essay
304 Jack Rushton; or, Alone in the Pirates' Lair (excerpt) Charles Stevens Short Fiction
317 The Arena of Blood (excerpt) George Emmett & Harcourt Burrage Short Fiction
330 The Vault of Death (excerpt) George Augustus Sala Short Fiction
341 The Road to Adventure (excerpt) Bracebridge Hemyng Short Fiction
357 Penny Packets of Poison James Greenwood Essay
372 Horrible Murders and Human Pie-Makers uncredited Essay
376 To My Readers G. W. M. Reynolds Essay