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The Terrors
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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.
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The Terrors
TOM CHIVERS
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.
Death is cloathed in terrors
- The Newgate Calendar
Biography lends to death a new terror
- Oscar Wilde
Celebrities. They’re a funny old bunch, aren’t they? All you have to do is lure them into an overlit bungalow with a promise of a few weeks back in the limelight, and before you can say ‘me me me’ they’re baring their tortured souls and telling us all KINDS of things we never knew we wanted to know.
- Heidi Stephens, The Guardian, January 2009
A Guide to Email Etiquette
Don’t reply to an email when angry, as you may regret it later.
Don’t type in capitals as this is considered SHOUTING.
Don’t send large attachments without checking with the recipient first.
Don’t send chain letters or ‘make money fast’ messages.
Don’t criticize spelling (sic.). It is considered petty.
Read the rules.
Don’t flame people.
Don’t make personal remarks.
Don’t send unsuitable email.
Don’t mention Lilly’s hieroglyph.
Don’t overuse the exclamation mark.
Be concise and to the point.
Don’t reply to spam.
Don’t gape at Puppet-shews.
Don’t talk about the Press.
Don’t excavate the ragstone.
Do not request delivery receipts...
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