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The Nail in the Skull and Other Victorian Urban Legends /

A scarily skilled critical examination of Victorian-era urban legends.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Young, Simon
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2022.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Cover -- The NAIL in the SKULL and Other VICTORIAN URBAN LEGENDS -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Baby Picnic -- 2. Beetle Eyes -- 3. The Bosom Serpent -- 4. Buried Alive -- 5. The Cautious Druggist -- 6. Child Pie -- 7. The Chimney Boy -- 8. Chloroformed! -- 9. Covert Catholics -- 10. Cycling Afflictions -- 11. Death Dice -- 12. Devil Take Me! -- 13. Do You Know Her? -- 14. Downie's Slaughter -- 15. Dressing the Workhouse Corpse -- 16. Drugged on a Train -- 17. The Eagle and the Baby -- 18. Egg Ring 
505 0 |a 19. Familiar Enemies -- 20. Fish Ring -- 21. The Galvanic Convict -- 22. The Ghost in Search of Help -- 23. Ghost Wager -- 24. Ghostly Donation -- 25. Hands in the Muff -- 26. Harem Prisoner -- 27. Hero Survives -- 28. Hollow Tree Death -- 29. Human Sausages -- 30. I Lost the Ring Here -- 31. I'm Jack the Ripper! -- 32. Immured Lovers -- 33. The Injured Garotter -- 34. Jolting the Coffin -- 35. The Judge and the Foreman -- 36. The Lady and the Ring -- 37. The Lawyer and the Poisoned Cakes -- 38. The Long Pack -- 39. Message in a Hat -- 40. A Million Postage Stamps -- 41. The Mistletoe Bride 
505 0 |a 42. A Modern Jonah! -- 43. Nail in the Coffin -- 44. The Nail in the Skull -- 45. The Omnibus Driver's Holiday -- 46. One Little Piggy -- 47. Paying for His Burial -- 48. The Pickpocket's Ring -- 49. Poison Duel -- 50. Prayers and the Thief -- 51. The Red Hand! -- 52. The Returned Watch -- 53. Selling Sovereigns -- 54. Sewer Monsters -- 55. She's My Daughter? -- 56. Shooting at a Ghost -- 57. The Shoplifter's Dilemma -- 58. The Skeletons That Eloped -- 59. The Spanish Prisoner -- 60. The Suicide Club -- 61. Swallowed Up -- 62. The Tell-Tale Eye -- 63. Tick Tock -- 64. There's Gold in Those Sewers 
505 0 |a 65. Tunnel Kissing -- 66. The Vanishing Lady -- 67. Watch the Clock -- 68. Wild Thing -- 69. The Wrong Bed -- 70. The Wrong Trousers -- Notes -- Bibliography -- About the Author 
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