Cover -- Series Preface -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Illustrations -- List of Figures -- Introduction -- 1 Chapbooks, Bluebooks and Shilling Shockers -- 2 The Rise of the Gothic Chapbook: Simon Fisher, Thomas Hurst and The Monk, 1797-1801 -- 3 The Art of Marketing: Ann Lemoine and John Roe -- 4 The Golden Age of the Shilling Shocker: Thomas Tegg and the Chapbook Magazines -- 5 The Profiteers: Isaac Crookenden and Sarah Wilkinson -- 6 The Decline of the Gothic Pamphlet -- Notes -- Appendix: Gothic Pamphlets -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover
Summary
The Gothic Chapbook, Bluebook, and Shilling Shocker surveys the rise of the short tale of terror and horror at the beginning of the nineteenth century
