#penny dreadfuls

[weirdlookindog]

Spring-Heeled Jack #2 - Aldine Publishing, 1904. Cover art by Robert Prowse.

#spring heeled jack #robert prowse #penny dreadfuls #victorian gothic #horror art

[mistressofthemacabresworld]

#penny dreadfuls #victorian #horror #gothic #goth #art #skeleton horseman #haunted forest #sweeney todd #the vampires of paris #spring heeled jack #varney the vampire #vampire

[kingbuffy]

I'm actually reading Varney the Vampire for the first time, because I'm determined to become an expert in foundational vampire history, and it's really fascinating how much it has influenced modern vampire lore. Varney, by my estimation, may have been the first vampire portrayed with fangs. More importantly, Varney seems to be the first sympathetic vampire.

The way he acts actually reminds me a lot of Barnabas Collins, another extremely influential vampire that made his debut in the soap opera Dark Shadows over a century later. Barnabas begins his story being merely a charismatic and conniving villain, but as he goes on the layers are peeled back and we see the man that longs to love and be human again. If you've read Varney, you'll recognize the comparison. Varney the Vampire and Dark Shadows actually have many striking similarities. Varney the Vampire was an extremely popular Penny Dreadful, which were basically soap operas at the time. Even the meandering plots and repetitive dialogue are the same, but it's always Varney and Barnabas that keeps the audience entertained.

I'm not sure though if I would recommend Varney the Vampire to the average person, if only because it's really long. The writers were paid by the line, so you can understand the dragged out story, but that doesn't make for very palatable reading. If you're a total nerd dedicated to the niche of vampire history like me though, you'll probably get something out of it. I don't know when or if I'll finish it, but it'd be cool to talk about with someone.

#varney the vampire #vampires #barnabas collins #dark shadows #vampire lore #penny dreadfuls

[joe-iconis-banger-bracket]

Banger Bracket Round 1 Match 11

Rules:

Please have heard each song in the poll before voting.

Vote for the best song, not your favorite.

Propaganda welcome :)

Links to songs:

Penny Dreadfuls

The Squip Song

The Vagabond

Voices In My Head

#joe iconis banger bracket #Penny Dreadfuls #the squip song #be more chill #the vagabond #voices in my head

[bitletsanddrabbles]

Fan Fiction: What Are You Afraid Of?

I knew my brain couldn't just...concentrate on old stuff for long. Or even switch to 'new stuff we viably should be working on'. Nope, it found a new way to scratch an itch it's had for a rather long time, resulting this 30 minute short.

Happy Almost-Half-Way-To-Halloween from Thomas and Guy.

“I’m still not certain it quite gets the point across,” Guy’s voice carried from the bedroom. It carried with it the hint of a frown. “It’s rather difficult to make half of my face look younger, and the difference in hair style really isn’t that noticeable.”

“Not much we can do about that now,” Thomas replied, regarding his own reflection in the mirror. Their rooms were directly next to each other, so they could easily have conversation without raising their voices too much. If anyone asked, it was so Thomas could be there Johnny-on-the-spot if ‘Mr. Dexter’ were ill and needed help, but no one asked. Honestly Thomas didn't think anyone would believe it if they did. “I suppose we could try to make half of your face look older, if it bothers you that much, although I’d never gotten the impression from the book that Jekyll was exactly in his dotage.”

“No,” Guy agreed. “And if I’m honest, I rather thought John looked older when he was Hyde.”

“True, but we’re not supposed to be mimicking his version, so I’d say that what we have works.” Thomas frowned in his own mirror, sighed, and teased his hair a bit more. “I, on the other hand, should have gotten a wig.”

There was a brief pause, then Guy appeared in the doorway. For any other occasion, he’d have looked a fright. His suit was a patchwork affair made from pieces found at a second hand shop. Thomas had spent the better part of a fortnight painstakingly cutting it all down the middle - from the trousers to the tie - and sewing it back together. The end effect was that the actor’s right side was dressed in a conservative style, while his right looked far more dandyish. He’d worn curlers in the right side of his hair the night before and for most of the day, so there was noticeably more curl, but his hair waved enough on its own that it really wasn’t as obvious as it could have been. Still, if you were at a Halloween party with the theme of ‘how you would interpret your favorite horror story character’, it was pretty obvious. If anything, Thomas’s only complaint was that the right side didn’t look evil enough. Maybe if they splattered some fake blood on the arm…

“Why would you need a wig?” the actor asked, his tone mild and curious. “Moore Marriott barely has any hair at all.”

“Again, I’m not trying to look like Marriott,” Thomas replied, grabbing a comb and trying to stick it into his spiked hair. It stayed, but not as securely as he’d have liked. “In the old penny dreadfuls, Todd had lots of hair. It was unruly and he kept his combs in it.” Thomas adjusted the comb in his own hair. This time it worked better. “Mine isn’t quite long enough for that.”

Guy looked him over, then shrugged. “I doubt anyone will notice. After all, penny dreadfuls didn’t exactly make it over on this side of the pond. They go in more for dime novels.” Almost apologetically he added, “You’ll probably spend more time explaining your costume than I will mine.”

“Hmph.” Thomas scowled into the mirror, picking up his straight razor and tucking it into the apron he wore. “Well if anyone dares mock me for it, I’ll polish them off and we can give them to Mrs. Reed to make into a pie for tomorrow’s dinner. Now, can I borrow your comb?”

#downton abbey #downton abbey fanfiction #thomas barrow #guy dexter #thomas barrow x guy dexter #silent horror films #penny dreadfuls #guess the characters #just realized i failed to make a phantom of the opera reference #oh well #lon chaney can wait some more #i guess

[turnupsdrawsrarely]

I can excuse murdering people and baking them into pies, but I draw the line at killing the dog.

(Sweeney Todd book doodles.)

#sweeney todd #johanna oakley #tobias ragg #mrs lovett #musicals #classic literature #penny dreadfuls #broadway #west end #stephen sondheim #turnupsdraws

[queenofthedorks]

Penny Dreadful covers

Courtesy of The British Library's Flickr

"Murder, Slow Diabolical Murder" she murmured.

I'm choosing to believe this is the plot of a reverse harem.

And this is definitely the sweet tale of a thrupple just trying to make it work at the tale end of Victoria's reign.

I mean same girl, same.

#penny dreadfuls #Victorian England #Victorian era #old book covers #book covers #cover art

[iconuk01]

Honestly, based on the covers of this dime novel magazine series, Bowery Billy HAS to be an ancestor of The Hardy Boys in terms of random bondage and imperillment whilst crimebusting as a plucky teenager.

This next one hurts to look at in terms of either extreme motion sickness, or friction in unfortunate areas!

For some reason "Extreme Wine Tasting" never took off...

I do like that the author is repeatedly stressed as being an actual "Private investigator" because these all seem such workaday stories such as any random PI might find themselves involved in.

I'll also mention this page which, after the author (Who was inspired to look for it after a post I made on scans_daily) managed to read one of the actual issues, mentions that the guy who shared whatever shelter Billy was been able to find was his ally, a boy named "Lulu" (His name was actually Louis, but Billy thought he was so pale and delicate-looking that he must be " a sissy" and gave him a girls name... apply our own subtext)

It also gives an example of how Billy talked

"Green bananers! So dis pair is layin' for Bernard Gildersleeve, der millionaire that's jest come, from Chicago to show der fellers in New York how to blow in their boodle!"

Riiight!

#Bowery Billy #dime novels #penny dreadfuls #yay! deathtraps!

[underqualified-human]

Gothic Literature Masterlist [Books + some adaptations]

Last Updated: 31/10/2022

Incorrect Quotes:

Frankenstein:

Frankenstein's Monster [Adam]:

Eyes, Eyes, Eyes [oneshot, gn reader ]

The strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde:

Dr Henry Jekyll:

Drabble 1 - Implied NSFW

Dr Jekyll NSFW Alphabet

The Moon: Deception [oneshot]

Edward Hyde:

Dating Headcanons

Dracula:

Nothing Yet!

The Invisible man:

Nothing Yet!

Phantom Of The Opera:

Nothing Yet!

#masterlist #aries writing #penny dreadfuls #gothic lit

[seemsanawfulwaste]

The String Of Pearls is actually cracking me up so badly like. Why did they not include his funny laugh (people who have me on discord and/or WhatsApp will know I've been ranting on about this) that has so much potential 😭 Although I cannot see Johnny Depp's Sweeney have a funny laugh, I can fully imagine it in the musical, especially since they're already batshit crazy (see how George Hearn smiled as he pointed at the thing Pirelli's body was in? I love him as Sweeney Todd so much).

I need help bro

#the string of pearls #sweeney todd #sweeney todd broadway #mrs lovett #george hearn #broadway #penny dreadfuls #1840s #adolfo pirelli #johnny depp #tim burton #sweeney todd the demon barber of fleet street

[sohannabarberaesque]

Imagine this dime-novel potboiler redone Funtastically, with a light-hearted touch in the bargain (especially when the Three Wolves are the treasure-seekers and such involves missing bonds and other papers caught up in an airliner crash some years before):

(Incidentally, 1,000 fathoms is 6,000 feet deep at the generally-recognised rate of six feet to the fathom. That would make things a little over a mile deep underwater, doubtless requiring special diving gear for such depths like rebreathers. However, for the sake of this concept, the milieu would likely be somewhere in northern Minnesota's lakes country, and more conventional SCUBA gear would prevail. Not to mention having the Divin' Wolf Pups in on the exercise.)

@warnerbrosentertainment @joey-gatorman @archive-archives @funtasticworld @warnerbros-blog1 @indigo-corvus @warnerbrosent-blog

#hanna barbera #headcannons #dime novels #penny dreadfuls #juvenile adventure #treasure hunting #loopy de loop #bon bon (loopy's nephew) #hokey wolf and ding-a-ling #mildew wolf #plane crash #missing securities #ten thousand lakes of minnesota #onlyinmn #hannabarberaforever

[cats-and-cacti]

Oh characters doomed from the start we’re really in it now

#bly manor #the haunting of hill house #the haunting of bly manor #midnight mass #the midnight club #mike flannigan #mike flanagan #fall of the house of usher #kendall roy #shiv roy #connor roy #roman roy #song of achilles #achilles and patroclus #patrochilles #patroclus #achilles #penny dreadful #vanessa ives #ethan chandler #frankenstein #victor frankenstein #dorian gray

[frankensteincest]

Frankenstein touched every part of the Creature before he was born. and presumably never touched him again.

#log. #frankenstein #this is why penny dreadful frankenstein pointing a gun at him #and then when he asks to be killed #touching him for the first time #good lord

[mage-child]

Book Review: The Lady and the Highwayman

#BookReview - The Lady and the Highwayman by Sarah M. Eden This battle of authors is a sweet and heartwarming story of raising up those in need and offering a chance to children overlooked by society

4 out of 5 Stars The Blurb Elizabeth Black is the headmistress of a girls’ school and a well-respected author of “silver-fork” novels, stories written both for and about the upper-class ladies of Victorian society. But by night, she writes very different kinds of stories—the Penny Dreadfuls that are all the rage among the working-class men. Under the pseudonym Mr. King, Elizabeth has written…

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#book review #fiction #lady and the highwayman #penny dreadfuls #romance #sarah m eden #Writing

[bitletsanddrabbles]

Sweeney Todd was originally a penny dreadful character.

Dick Turpin was another penny dreadful character.

The two most modern adaptions of Sweeney Todd add a character named "Judge Turpin".

...

If you tell me this is coincidence, I will not believe you.

Also, from here on out Judge Turpin's first name is Richard Dick.

#sweeney todd #penny dreadfuls #things you realize #new headcanon

[flowerytale]

Penny Dreadful (2014-2016) created by John Logan

#penny dreadful #vanessa ives #typo #typography #words #quote #quotes #fragments #*