The Penny Dreadful or, Strange, Horrid & Sensational Tales! ed. Peter Haining (Gollancz, January 1975, 0-575-01779-1, £3.60, 382pp, hc, an)
A selection of items from the Victorian “penny dreadful” publications.
- 13 · Introduction · Peter Haining · in
- 23 · The Terrific Register · Peter Haining · si
- 25 · The Monster of Scotland · [uncredited] · ar The Terrific Register, Sherwood, Jones, and Co., 1825 [Ref. Sawney Bean]
- 30 · The Calendar of Horrors · Peter Haining · si
- 32 · The Dead Alive; or, The Mendicant Robber of Orleans · [uncredited] · ex The Calendar of Horrors 1836
- 36 · The Life of Dick Turpin · Peter Haining · si
- 38 · The Robbery of the Astrologer · [uncredited] · ex from The Life of Dick Turpin, 1841
- 50 · The Ambush of Death · Pierce Egan, Jr. · ex from Robin Hood and Little John, 1839
- 68 · Actor’s Tale · Renton Nicholson · ex from Dombey and Daughter, 1847
- 83 · The Body-Snatchers · G. W. M. Reynolds · ex from The Mysteries of London, 1845
- 95 · Sweeney Todd · Peter Haining · si
- 97 · The Last Batch of Pies · Thomas Peckett Prest · ex from The String of Pearls, 1846
- 121 · The Resuscitation of a Vampire · James Malcolm Rymer · ex from Varney the Vampire; or, The Feast of Blood, anonymously, E. Lloyd, 1847, uncredited.
- 134 · Buried Alive! · Percy B. St. John · ex from Jessie, the Mormon’s Daughter, 1848
- 146 · The Life of a Murderer · Hannah Maria Jones · ex from The Shipwrecked Stranger, 1848
- 162 · The Abduction · Thomas Frost · ex from Paul the Poacher, 1850
- 176 · The Episode of the Knights of the Round Table · James Lindridge · ex from The Merry Wives of London, Purkiss, 1850
- 195 · Sister Anne · Paul de Kock; translated by G. W. M. Reynolds · ex ca. 1830
- 212 · The Raft of Death · Eugène Sue · ss 1840
- 229 · The Mad Wolf · Peter Haining · si
- 232 · The Mad Wolf · Ned Buntline · ss (r)
- 244 · The League of “The Thirty” · J. H. Ingraham · ss (r)
- 264 · The People’s Periodical · Peter Haining · si
- 266 · Confessions of a Deformed Lunatic · E. P. Hingston · ss The People’s Periodical and Family Library April 17 1847
- 276 · Reynolds’ Miscellany · Peter Haining · si
- 278 · The Rosicrucian · Edwin F. Roberts · ss Reynolds’s Miscellany of Romance, General Literature, Science, and Art #43, May 5 1849
- 293 · The London Journal · Peter Haining · si
- 296 · Stanfield Hall · J. F. Smith · ex The London Journal 1850
- 302 · Boys of England · Peter Haining · si
- 304 · Jack Rushton: or, Alone in the Pirates’ Lair · Charles Stevens · ex (r)
- 317 · The Arena of Blood · George Emmett & Harcourt Burrage · ex from Caractacus, Champion of the Arena, Hogarth House, 1885; the British Library catalog attributes this to Charles Stevens.
- 330 · The Vault of Death · George Augustus Sala · ex from Guy Fawkes or, Gunpowder, Treason and Plot (r)
- 341 · The Road to Adventure · Bracebridge Hemyng · ex from Jack Harkaway’s Schooldays, Boys of England 1871
- 357 · Penny Packets of Poison · James Greenwood · ar The Wilds of London by James Greenwood, Chatto & Windus, 1874
- 372 · Horrible Murder and Human Pie-Makers · [uncredited] · ar The Tell Tale 1825
- 376 · To My Readers · G. W. M. Reynolds · ar Reynolds’s Miscellany of Romance, General Literature, Science, and Art November 1848
- 380 · Bibliography · [uncredited] · bi
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