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PENNY DREADFULS & GOTHICS

I've grouped these two different but relted types of fiction together because they flourished at the same time. The cheesy Gothics were published by semi-repspectable publishers while Penny Bloods were cranked out by largely anonymous and virtually illiterate businessmen. Many of the Penny dreafuls were bolderized versions of popular Gothics. This period begins in 186- with Walpole's The Castle of otranto and fades out into the Victorian era.

VATHEK (1787) by William Beckford (1787)
MELMOTH THE WANDERER by Charles Maturin (1820)
THE ALBIGENSES by Charles Maturin (1824)
"THE SEVERED ARM" by Anonymous(Circa 1821)
LE LOUP-GAROU by Eugene Scribe (1827)
"HUGUES THE WEREWOLF" by Sutherland Menzies (1838)
"THE STUDY OF A WEIR-WOLF" by Mrs. Crowe (1846)
WAGNER, THE WEHR-WOLF by G. W. M. Reynolds (1846)
"MONARE by Mrs. Richard S. Greenough (1871-72)