Penny dreadfuls
Subject
Subject Source: Genre Terms: A Thesaurus for Use in Rare Book and Special Collections Cataloguing
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Ned Guymon Mystery and Detective Fiction Collection
Collection
Identifier: COL-017
Content Description
This is a collection of first editions, covering 19th to mid-20th century. Highlights include a subcollection on Arthur Conan Doyle/Sherlock Holmes; Gothic Fiction; 19th century "triple-deckers" (3 volume novels) and penny dreadfuls; 17th-19th century true crime and trial accounts; an incomplete Second Folio of Shakespeare; Charles Dickens in original installments; first appearances of Edgar Allan Poe's stories in magazines; the English "Golden Age" of detective fiction; women mystery and...
Dates:
17th to 20th century
The Ned Guymon Collection of Mystery and Detective Fiction
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: COL-017
Content Description
Collection consists of approximately 13,500 items, mostly books in first editions but also magazines, ephemera, newspapers, manuscripts and typescripts of published works, galley proofs, film scripts, photographs, one original painting by Sidney Paget, and Ned Guymon's Raven Award from the Mystery Writers of America. Materials range from 1611-1999, and include pre-20th century true crime accounts, Gothic fiction, penny dreadfuls, supernatural novels, mystery and detective novels, thrillers,...
Dates:
17th to 20th century
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts