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Penny Dreadful Multipack Vol. 1 (Illustrated. Annotated. 'Wagner The
Wehr-Wolf,' 'Varney The Vampire,' 'The Mysteries of London Vol. 1' + Bonus
Features) (Penny Dreadful Multipacks) by George W. M. Reynolds & James
Malcolm Rymer
Three epic PENNY DREADFUL CLASSICS remastered for Kindle with original art,
essays, free audio recordings and detailed annotations:
Wagner The Wehr-Wolf, Varney The Vampire and The Mysteries of London.
WAGNER THE WEHR-WOLF
Published in 1847, 'Wagner' is one of the first werewolf novels in English
Literature. It is set in the sixteenth century and begins with a recently
abandoned old man waiting in vain for his granddaughter to return and care
for him as a storm rages in the ancient forest surrounding his isolated
cottage. To his surprise, a stranger appears and offers him something he
cannot refuse: beauty and youth. But it comes with a price as he must also
suffer the curse of the werewolf. Love, violence, and intrigue are all
weaved around Fernand Wagner as he struggles to balance being a human and a
murderous animal. As things become more out of hand and uncontrollable, the
secret he has been trying to hide may just have to come forth and be faced
by all involved, including his beloved Nisida.
VARNEY THE VAMPIRE
One of the earliest penny dreadfuls, 'Varney' is the original vampire story
and it was wildly popular with Victorian readers, remaining the Number One
serial for two years. It appeared in eight part installments every month
between 1845-7. The full version collected here clocks in at an epic 667,000
words. This hugely influential work continues to enthrall and is presented
here in electronic book form for the first time with its original
illustrations.
THE MYSTERIES OF LONDON VOL. 1
Largely forgotten now, 'The Mysteries of London' was one of the biggest
selling novels in mid-Victorian England, outselling contemporaneous works
from Dickens and Thackeray. The first series was published in weekly
installments from 1844-46, priced at a penny each. George W. M. Reynolds
wrote the first two series of this long-running narrative of life in the
seedy underbelly of mid-nineteenth-century London. Thomas Miller wrote the
third series and Edward L. Blanchard wrote the fourth series of this
immensely popular title.
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