In this book of amazing oddities, Jan Bondeson explores unexpected, gruesome, and bizarre aspects...

Known in Britain at least since the 1730s, Newfoundland dogs have been highly regarded for their ...

Readers of Edgar Allan Poe's tales-just think of The Premature Burial-may comfort themselves with...

One of the most notorious Victorian murders was committed by Dr George Henry Lamson, who stood tr...

Meet the Victorians in their strangest forms. After reading this book, your views on Victorian cu...

New B-format paperback edition - This book features fifty-six Victorian murder cases from the fil...

The ghoulish handiwork of nineteenth-century London - the rivals of the Ripper.

A century before Jack the Ripper, another predator held sway on the streets--the London Monster. ...

The unusual tale of one of history's earliest celebrity stalkers

Amazing Dogs tells the stories of some of the most extraordinary dogs in history.

A wry, compelling look at the mania surrounding the sensational case of the 'Monster' who terrori...

Which of Edinburgh's most gruesome murders has happened in your street? And were they committed b...

Which of London's most gruesome murders happened in your street? And were they committed by Jack ...

A successor to his popular book A Cabinet of Medical Curiosities, this new collection of essays b...

WHEN JACK THE RIPPER first prowled the streets of London, an evening newspaper commented that his...

This book tells the full story of the Boy Jones, one of the first celerity stalkers in history

Explodes the myth of Edinburgh's Greyfriars Bobby.

'Jack the Ripper is the quintessential Victorian serial killer, and the debate continues with reg...

Does this long-forgotten novel hold the key to the mystery of the Whitechapel Murders of 1888?

The complete collection of the famous postcard artist Phillimore's pictures of Edinburgh. It will...

Bondeson tells the stories of some of the most extraordinary dogs in history.

A historian's research skills combined with a physician's diagnostic flair, exploring our timeles...

R. P. Phillimore's East Lothian