Flesh-Ripping Ghouls of London: Murder, Madness & Gore from the Penny Bloods

by Thomas Peckett Prest and James Malcolm Rymer

At the beginning of the 19th century, higher standards of education, the invention of fast and efficient printing presses, and cheap paper production combined to create a new, mass market for literature in England: sensationalistic, graphic "shilling shockers" for the masses. By 1827, macabre literary material dealing with witchcraft, deformity, depravity, insanity, sadism and gore, could be found in such publications as Legends Of Terror, a 40-part...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1902197518
• ISBN13: 9781902197517
• Release Date: June 2012
• Publisher: Creation Oneiros
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.4" x 8.4"