penny-dreadful

• “Another was Maria Monk's "Awful Disclosures," a sensational penny-dreadful which pretended to lay bare the secrets of the lurid life behind the walls of a 19th century convent.”

  The Wall Street Journal: England, My England (Never Having Been There)

• “Boston editor who was running a magazine with a Matthew Arnold taste and a penny-dreadful purse.”

  Chapter 29

• “For the post-Cracker, post-Lecter generation, the old, penny-dreadful voyeurism depicted in Orwell's essay on murders has been replaced by a more gracious style of connoisseurship, whereby scholarly assessment of the serial murderer is supposed to further understanding of the whole human condition.”

  The Guardian: We shouldn't make entertainment out of others' tragedy | Catherine Bennett

• “Clearly, Mark Williams had not my advantage when he penned his penny-dreadful blog post.”

  The Huffington Post: Mayhill Fowler: Tea Party Talk: Racism, Palin, and the Hostile Takeover of the Republican Party

• “A tour-de-force mixture of Victorian penny-dreadful, historical mystery, and surrealist fantasy, it's gotten incredible quotes and reviews, and instantly hooks readers.”

  MIND MELD: Who Are Tomorrow's Big Genre Stars? (+ The Top 18 Genre Authors To Keep an Eye On)

• “From fake Lord Byrons to ancient prophetic automatons and mohican-haired punk lizards this is a city-wide penny-dreadful peepshow, a Victorian pandemonium carnival that has spilled out onto the streets and embedded itself into the very social fabric.”

  Archive 2010-04-01

• “Serious questions have been raised about the way the trial was conducted and, specifically, the conduct of prosecutor Giuliano Mignini whose shocking, hyperbolic descriptions of Knox as a "she devil" and a "deviant" bore more than a passing resemblance to his lurid, penny-dreadful theories of black magic rituals and Satanism expressed during the investigation of the as-yet unsolved "Monster of Florence" serial killing.”

  The Huffington Post: Michael Rowe: Should the U.S. Get Involved in the Amanda Knox Murder Verdict?

• “In America, since the rise of the penny-dreadful novels that romanticized the Wild West, we have created a mythology of the self-made man, who acts alone.”

  Not Alone

• “Like Romanticism it freely utilised the mythic, the fantastic, but like Realism this was no easy ride, no penny-dreadful diversion.”

  Archive 2005-03-01

• “I always found the Batman “Vampire Trilogy” to be unsettling in a very visceral, penny-dreadful kind of way, which I suppose is appropriate.”

  Over the river and through the ‘verse: DC Comics Solicitations for November, 2007

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