Contains twenty-three stories from Victorian magazines & serial novels with original illustrations.

CONTENTS

Introduction - Peter Haining
Anon - The Monster Of Scotland (from "The Terrific Register")
Anon - The Dead Alive ("The Calendar Of Horrors")
Anon - The Robbery Of The Astrologer ("The Life Of Dick Turpin")
Pierce Egan jnr. - The Ambush Of Death ("Robin Hood")
Renton Nicholson - The Actor's Tale ("Dombey And Daughter")
G. W. M. Reynolds - The Body-Snatchers ("Mysteries Of London")
Thomas Peckett Prest - The Last Batch Of Pies ("Sweeney Todd")
James Malcolm Rymer - The Resuscitation Of A Vampyre ("Varney The Vampyre")
Percy B. St. John - Buried Alive! ("Jessie, The Mormon's Daughter")
Hannah Maria Jones - The Life Of A Murderer ("The Shipwrecked Stranger")
Thomas Frost - The Abduction ("Paul The Poacher")
James Lindridge - The Episode Of The Knights Of The Round Table ("The Merry Wives Of London")
Paul de Kock - Sister Anne
Eugene Sue - The Raft Of Death
Ned Buntine - The Mad Wolf
J. H. Ingraham - The League Of 'The Thirty'
Anon - Confessions Of A Deformed Lunatic ("The People's Periodical")
Anon - The Rosicrucian ("Reynolds Miscellany")
Anon - Stanfield Hall ("London Journal")
Anon - "Jack Rushton: or, Alone In The Pirates' Lair ("Boys Of England")
Anon - Caractacus, Champion Of The Arena ("The Arena Of Blood")
G. A. Sala - The Vault Of Death ("Guy Fawkes")
Bracebridge Hemyng - Jack Harkaway ("The Road To Adventure")
Appendices:
James Greenwood - "Penny Packets Of Poison"
" Horrible Murder And Human Pie-Makers"
George Reynolds - To My Readers
Bibliography