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  • I'm a regular reader of your blog, and I was surprised to see Dawn of the Dreadfuls on here, because I designed that cover!

    Book Cover Roundup 2009

  • An extreme case can be found with smart sketch trio The Penny Dreadfuls, who've this year divided to offer three very different solo shows.

    Edinburgh fringe festival new comedy 2011

  • Humphrey Ker, one of the Penny Dreadfuls, has created a show that lies somewhere between comedy, storytelling and theatre and is one of my favourites so far this year.

    Edinburgh fringe comedy roundup 2011

  • As with last year, the cast includes members of top sketch group The Penny Dreadfuls (themselves no strangers to gothic humour), and it's co-written by Brendan Dodds, his first major project since leaving the multi-award-nominated Pappy's Fun Club.

    This week's new comedy James Kettle 2010

  • Chesterton wrote one of the most enlightening and useful essays ever on the moral function of literature: “A Defense of Penny Dreadfuls.”

    The Volokh Conspiracy » G.K. Chesterton, The Apostle of Common Sense: 2010

  • If you didn't get enough zombies on Monday, I review the prequel to PPZ called Dawn of the Dreadfuls.

    Archive 2010-04-01 2010

  • Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: Dawn of the Dreadfuls by Steve Hockensmith - I haven't read the first mash-up by Seth Grahame-Smith -- couldn't bring myself to hop on the bandwagon -- but I appreciated the concept.

    Chasing Tale in March: Quirk Classics, Jonathan Maberry, Dan Simmons ... 2010

  • Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith (audiobook) - Now, while I'm reading Dawn of the Dreadfuls I can listen to the first book.

    Chasing Tale in March: Quirk Classics, Jonathan Maberry, Dan Simmons ... 2010

  • If you didn't get enough zombies on Monday, I review the prequel to PPZ called Dawn of the Dreadfuls.

    This Week on WTF 2010

  • Featuring the attention to detail and well-crafted period jokes that were a feature of Ker's previous work in Victorian sketch trio The Penny Dreadfuls, there's plenty to admire here too.

    This week's new comedy 2011

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