shilling shocker
nounEtymology
From the price of one shilling, and the shocking content.
Definitions
A cheap paperback book produced for the mass market in 19th-century Britain, often…
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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