Frankenstein; or The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley ; The Adventure of the German Student by Washington Irving ; The Wehr-Wolf: A Legend of the Limousin by Richard Thomson ; The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe ; Sawney Beane: The Man Eater by Charles Whitehead ; Aurelia; or, The Tale of a Ghoul by E.T.A. Hoffmann ; Wake Not the Dead!; or, The Bride of the Grave by Johann Ludwig Tieck ; The Dream-Woman by Wilkie Collins ; A Night in the Grave; or, The Devil's Receipt by Anonymous ; The Case of Lady Sannox by Arthur Conan Doyle ; The Diary of a Madam by Guy De Maupassant ; George Dobson's Expedition to Hell by James Hogg ; Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson ; The Apparition of Lord Tyrone to Lady Beresford by Anonymous ; Lost in a Pyramid; or, the Mummy's Curse by Louise May Alcott ; In Kropfsburg Keep by Ralph Adams Cram ; The Buried Alive by John Galt ; The Dualitists; or, The Death-Doom of the Double-Born by Bram Stoker ; The Executioner by William Godwin ; The String of Pearls; or, Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet-street by James Malcom Rymer
Summary:
Welcome to Penny Dreadfuls, an anthology of twenty "sensation stories" all first published in the nineteenth century. The original penny dreadfuls were cheaply printed, inexpensive publications written to titillate the masses with shocking thrills and lurid horrors. Over time, "penny dreadful" became a catch-phrase for any story steeped in gothic horror that pushed the limits of what was acceptable in popular fiction.
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