The Penny Dreadfuls
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<div><B>Blood, gore, murder, and sin?Victorian literature’s darkest horrors await you.</B><BR><BR>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 to?and even inspired?many of the more famous narratives of the horror genre.<BR><BR>This book unites three of the most notorious literary giants of the nineteenth century: <I>Dracula</I>, <I>Frankenstein</I>, and <I>The Picture of Dorian Gray</I>, 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.<BR><BR>This book contains three haunting tales and a bonus story:<BR><BR>? <I>Dracula</I> by Bram Stoker<BR>? <I>Dracula’s Guest</I> by Bram Stoker (<I>Dracula</I>’s original first chapter, not published until after Stoker’s death)<BR>? <I>Frankenstein</I> by Mary Shelley<BR>? <I>The Picture of Dorian Gray</I> by Oscar Wilde<BR><BR><BR>Curl up with <I>The Penny Dreadfuls</I> on a dark, moonless night and rediscover these chilling classics.</div>
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