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Wagner the werewolf represents the compiled exploits of one Fernand
Wagner, a bitter old man visited on a stormy night by the legendary
Dr. Faust. As in Faust's own tale, Wagner is made a tempting offer
- renewed youth, intelligence and unlimited wealth. All he has to
do is agree to accompany him for a time ... and to become a
werewolf. When Wagner agrees, his youth is restored at a horrible
price. on the last day of each month he becomes a mindless beast,
part animal and part man. after realizing the error of his decision
he begins a quest to find a cure. But Satan has a solution of his
own for Wagner's condition ...
He is all but forgotten today, but in his time, British author
GEORGE WILLIAM MACARTHUR REYNOLDS (1814 1879) was a veritable
Victorian Stephen King whose penny dreadful serials were more
widely read than the works of Dickens, and shocked delighted
readers with their lurid tales of murder, intrigue, and
supernatural doings.This horrible tale, first published in 1851 2,
opens in the year 1510 in an actual Gothic hall, where a young lady
of exquisite beauty has been terribly affrighted. From there flows
a tale so fiendishly wicked at least to 19th-century sensibilities
that even a King may find himself haunted... Fans of horror and
students of the history of pulp fiction will be enthralled by this
little-remembered novel, which Cosimo is proud to present here in a
charming replica of an 1857 edition, complete with the original
illustrations.
George W.M. Reynolds was a prolific author of the 19th century
'penny dreadful' (now known as pulp fiction), a lurid
sensationalist genre in which the occult and supernatural featured
heavily, although Reynolds was a cut above other writers in his
field. 'Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf' (1847) is one of his best known
works, and tells the story of an old man living in the Black
Forest, who becomes a werewolf as a result of a demonic pact.
This early work by George W. M. Reynolds was originally published
in 1848 and we are now republishing it as part of our Cryptofiction
Classics series. 'Wagner the Wehr-Wolf' is a short story about a
man who makes a deal to remain young but at the cost of becoming
lycanthropic.
George William MacArthur Reynolds (1814-1879) was a British author
and journalist. The Mysteries of London, like most of Reynolds'
works, was first published as a weekly penny dreadful, illustrated
with lurid engravings and circulating mainly among readers of
limited means and education.
The million-copy bestseller that rocked mid-Victorian England
returns to print for the first time in a century
The government feared him. Rival authors like Charles Dickens,
whom he outsold, despised him. The literary establishment did its
best to write him out of literary history. But when George W.M.
Reynolds, journalist, political reformer, Socialist, and novelist,
died in 1879, even his critics were forced to acknowledge the truth
of his obituary, which declared that he was the most popular writer
of his time. And The Mysteries of London, which was published in
1844 in the "penny dreadful" format of weekly installments sold for
a penny each, was his masterpiece and greatest success, selling
50,000 copies a week and over a million more when published in
volume form.
The Mysteries of London is a sprawling tableau, seeking to depict
life as Reynolds saw it in mid-Victorian London and expose what he
viewed as gross injustice toward the poor. Some of the notable
storylines involve Richard Markham and Eliza Sydney, two virtuous
but ingenuous youths inveigled into the fraudulent schemes of
rogues; George Montague, a libertine who appears literally out of
nowhere and nearly overnight becomes one of the richest and most
powerful men in London; Anthony Tidkins, the "Resurrection Man," a
ruthless murderer and body-snatcher; and Ellen Monroe, an
impoverished girl forced to submit to the worst degradations to
earn money to feed her elderly father. The story takes us from
royal drawing rooms, offices of cabinet ministers, and chambers of
Parliament to the bowels of Newgate prison, the workhouse, and the
lowest of taverns and gambling dens as Reynolds unfolds his
thrilling plot, which never flags for an instant over the course of
nearly 1,200 pages.
This edition, the first in over 100 years, includes the unabridged
text of the complete first series of The Mysteries, including its
illustrations, more than fifty in all, and features a new foreword
by Victorian scholar Louis James and annotations by Dr. Dick
Collins.
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