The Penny Dreadfuls: Tales of Horror: Dracula's Guest, Dracula, Frankenstein, and The Picture of Dorian Gray

✍ Scribed by Bram Stoker

• Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 535 KB
• Category: Fiction
• City: New York
• ISBN: 1634501152

✦ Synopsis

Blood, gore, murder, and sin—Victorian literature’s 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 to—and even inspired—many of the more famous narratives of the horror genre.

This book unites three of the most notorious literary giants of the nineteenth century:Dracula,Frankenstein, andThe Picture of 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 three haunting tales and a bonus story:

•Draculaby Bram Stoker
•Dracula’s Guestby Bram Stoker (Dracula’s original first chapter, not published until after Stoker’s death)
•Frankensteinby Mary Shelley
•The Picture of Dorian Grayby Oscar Wilde

Curl up withThe Penny Dreadfulson a dark, moonless night and rediscover these chilling classics.

✦ Subjects

Horror