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    The Terrors
    The Terrors
    The Terrors
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    The Terrors

    By Tom Chivers

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    The Terrors is a sequence of imagined emails; poetic missives from the start of the 21st century to inmates at London's notorious Newgate Prison. Mimicking the tone of its primary source, The Newgate Calendar, The Terrors tacks from horror to humour, from moral disgust to the casual chitchat of the digital generation, all the time delineating London's violent urban undercurrent in bold, energetic and sometimes shocking language.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNine Arches Press
    Release dateOct 18, 2013
    ISBN9780957384781
    The Terrors
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    Tom Chivers

    Tom Chivers is an author and the award-winning science writer for Semafor. His writing has appeared in The Times (London), The Guardian, New Scientist, Wired, CNN, and more. His books include Everything Is Predictable, The Rationalist’s Guide to the Galaxy, and How to Read Numbers.

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      The Terrors - Tom Chivers

      The Terrors

      TOM CHIVERS

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      The Terrors

      Tom Chivers

      Illustrations by Emma Robertson.

      ISBN: 978-0-956055-92-7

      eISBN:978-0-957384-78-1

      Copyright © Tom Chivers 2009

      All illustrations © Emma Robertson 2009

      Tom Chivers has asserted his right under Section 77 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 to be identified as the author of this work.

      First published March 2009 by:

      Nine Arches Press

      PO Box 6269

      Rugby

      Warwickshire

      CV21 9NL

      UNITED KINGDOM

      www.ninearchespress.com

      Made in the Midlands

      DEAR READER,

      What follows is a sequence of imagined emails sent from the author to inmates at London’s Newgate Prison incarcerated between roughly 1700 and 1760. All mistakes, typos and anachronisms are deliberate.

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