100 English words for 'A cheap paperback book produced for the mass market in 19th-century Britain, often consolidating twelve to fifteen episodes of a serial novel whose chapters had previously been published separately as penny dreadful pamphlets. Shilling shockers were typically focused on the subjects of crime and violence and were especially popular in late Victorian England. The novels were rather short and cost one shilling.'

shilling shocker

penny dreadful

dime novel

pulp magazine

mag book

flat

Middleton

Thomas Middleton

litmag

picaresque

Galsworthy

Wood

John Galsworthy

Ellen Wood

Ellen Price Wood

softback

Mrs. Henry Wood

athenaeum

ragazine

Ezra Pound

e-novel

Pound

Ezra Loomis Pound

pulp

Henry Luce

Henry Robinson Luce

trade book

mook

trade edition

Luce

paperbacker

booklet

bookazine

William Wilkie Collins

yellowback

organ

libro-

Malcolm Lowry

gazetting

inedita

biblio-

Clarence Malcolm Lowry

Lowry

Collins

cyberzine

Wilkie Collins

S. S. Van Dine

Wallace

Captain Horatio Hornblower

Bowdler

nonnovel

Wright

Edgar Wallace

Horatio Hornblower

Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace

copy

Israel Zangwill

Zangwill

Thomas Bowdler

Willard Huntington Wright

novelette

fix-up

Dorothy L. Sayers

Dekker

Hawthorne

Sayers

Thomas Dekker

cybernovel

volumette

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Dorothy Sayers

Decker

Dorothy Leigh Sayers

source book

trade paperback

Thomas Decker

Baron Snow of Leicester

H. H. Munro

Snow

du Maurier

text

Munro

France

Dame Daphne du Maurier

Jacques Anatole Francois Thibault

metaliterature

pulp fiction

C. P. Snow

novel

Saki

Charles Percy Snow

Anatole France

Hector Hugh Munro

in print

litblog

codex

Daphne du Maurier

paralipomena