Penny Dreadfuls

Blood, gore, murder, and sinVictorian literatures 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 literary giants of the nineteenth century: Dracula, Frankenstein, and Dorian Gray, all in one authentic collection of the best Victorian gothic horror ever written. Originally published at a time when dramatic scientific discoveries sparked a cultural fixation on the paranormal, these stories remain timeless in their uncanny ability to prey upon our primal fear of that which is strange, violent, and unknown.This book contains a total of six haunting tales: Dracula by Bram Stoker Draculas Guest by Bram Stoker (Draculas original first chapter, not published until after Stokers death) Frankenstein by Mary Shelley Wagner the Wehr-Wolf by George W. M. Reynolds The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde Varney the Vampire by Thomas Preskett PrestCurl up with The Penny Dreadfuls on a dark, moonless night and rediscover these chilling classics.Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade, Yucca, and Good Books imprints, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fictionnovels, novellas, political and medical thrillers, comedy, satire, historical fiction, romance, erotic and love stories, mystery, classic literature, folklore and mythology, literary classics including Shakespeare, Dumas, Wilde, Cather, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.