Contents (view Concise Listing)

• 13 • Introduction (The Penny Dreadful; or, Strange, Horrid & Sensational Tales!) • essay by Peter Haining
• 23 • Terrific Register • essay by Peter Haining
• 25 • The Monster of Scotland • essay by uncredited
• 30 • Calendar of Horrors • essay by Peter Haining
• 32 • The Dead Alive; or, The Mendicant Robber of Orleans (excerpt) • short fiction by uncredited
• 36 • The Life of Dick Turpin • essay by Peter Haining
• 38 • The Robbery of the Astrologer (excerpt) • short fiction by uncredited
• 50 • The Ambush of Death (excerpt) • short fiction by Pierce Egan, Jr.
• 68 • Actor's Tale (excerpt) • short fiction by Renton Nicholson
• 83 • The Body-Snatchers (excerpt) • short fiction by George W. M. Reynolds [as by G. W. M. Reynolds]
• 95 • Sweeney Todd • essay by Peter Haining
• 97 • The Last Batch of Pies • short story by Thomas P. Prest [as by Thomas Peckett Prest]
• 121 • The Resuscitation of a Vampire (excerpt) • short fiction by James Malcolm Rymer
• 134 • Buried Alive! (excerpt) • short fiction by Percy B. St. John
• 146 • The Life of a Murderer (excerpt) • short fiction by Hannah Maria Jones
• 162 • The Abduction (excerpt) • short fiction by Thomas Frost
• 176 • The Episode of the Knights of the Round Table (excerpt) • short fiction by James Lindridge
• 195 • Sister Anne (excerpt) • short fiction by Paul de Kock
• 212 • The Raft of Death • short story by
  Eugène Sue^?Eugene Sue
• 229 • The Mad Wolf • essay by Peter Haining
• 232 • The Mad Wolf • short story by Ned Buntline
• 244 • The League of "The Thirty" • short story by Joseph Holt Ingraham [as by J. H. Ingraham]
• 264 • The People's Periodical • essay by Peter Haining
• 266 • Confessions of a Deformed Lunatic • short story by E. P. Hingston
• 276 • Reynolds' Miscellany • essay by Peter Haining
• 278 • The Rosicrucian • (1849) • short story by Edwin F. Roberts
• 286 • The London Journal • essay by Peter Haining
• 296 • Stanfield Hall (excerpt) • short fiction by J. F. Smith
• 302 • Boys of England • essay by Peter Haining
• 304 • Jack Rushton; or, Alone in the Pirates' Lair (excerpt) • short fiction by Charles Stevens
• 317 • The Arena of Blood (excerpt) • short fiction by Harcourt Burrage and George Emmett
• 330 • The Vault of Death (excerpt) • short fiction by George Augustus Sala
• 341 • The Road to Adventure (excerpt) • short fiction by Bracebridge Hemyng
• 357 • Penny Packets of Poison • essay by James Greenwood
• 372 • Horrible Murders and Human Pie-Makers • essay by uncredited
• 376 • To My Readers • essay by George W. M. Reynolds [as by G. W. M. Reynolds]