The Penny Dreadfuls

Blood, gore, murder, and sinVictorian literature’s darkest horrors await you. The penny dreadfuls were cheap nineteenth-century English stories that featured gothic, lurid, disturbing, and tantalizing content. These horror serials cost a penny per issue, hence their name: penny dreadfuls. The penny dreadfuls often paid homage toand even inspiredmany of the more famous narratives of the horror genre. This book pairs three obscure yet influential penny dreadfuls with three of the most notorious li