Dick Donovan ~6 hr read

A gathering of chilling stories from a popular Victorian teller of detective and macabre tales, dark deeds, dread, and terror, served up for the shilling-shocker reader.

Dick Donovan's 1899 collection offers atmospheric horror stories from a prolific and once hugely popular British author. Eerie, lurid, entertainingly grim. Read it for a slice of late-Victorian popular horror, brisk, sensational tales of terror from a writer who was a household name in the age of the penny dreadful.

In its time

Published in 1899, during the 1890s, wells arrives.

Reading it

~6 hr read (a novel-length work, settle in).