shilling shockers

A form of shilling shocker — 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, and typically focused on crime and violence.

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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of shilling shocker
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