shilling shocker (English, noun)
expansion: shilling shocker (plural shilling shockers)
Senses:
glosses: 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.
tags: British
historical
Forms:
form: shilling shockers
tags: plural