Penny Dreadfuls
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- Publisher BARNES & NOBLE BOOKS
- ISBN13 9781435157217
- ISBN10 1435157214
- Type BOOK
- Pages 704
- Published 2015
- Language English
- Bookbinding Hard cover
Subjects
English LiteraturePenny Dreadfuls
Editorial BARNES & NOBLE BOOKS
Do you want to pick it up at the bookstore?
Mainland Spain
Book details
Penny Dreadfuls: Sensational Tales of Terror is an anthology of twenty tales of horror and the supernatural published in the nineteenth century. In addition to works by Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Conan Doyle, Bram Stoker, Wilkie Collins!, and other well-known writers, it features several sensationalized retellings of famous folk legends and accounts of notorious highwaymen. The book includes two full-length novels: the original 1818 text of Frankenstein, which was considered more shocking before Mary Shelley toned down its gruesomeness for the better-known 1831 edition, and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, a genuine penny dreadful that has served as the foundation for all accounts of Sweeney Todd written since. The book will appeal to readers who are currently enjoying the literary horror mash-ups featured on the hit Sky Atlantic series Penny Dreadful.