A few years ago, indeed, I should have laughed at the idea of their existence anywhere outside the pages of a shilling shocker, but my three years in Dartmoor had led me to take a rather more generous view of what life can throw up in the way of scoundrels.

work of fiction, novel, romance, Minerva press; fairy tale, nursery tale; fable, parable, apologue^; dime novel, penny dreadful, shilling shocker relator &c v.; raconteur, historian &c (recorder) 553; biographer, fabulist^, novelist.

The shocker came on the night of the election-October 25.

Shilling shockers of the Gothic school.

Shilling shockers of the Gothic school.

If you aim to be a Shocker, carnal theories to cocker is the best way to begin.

But it was his misfortune to be for ever clogged by a tradition of decorous restraint; so that the effect of his plays is as anomalous as would belet us saythat of a shilling shocker written by Miss Yonge.