Penny Dreadful: The Avengers Assemble of the Grotesques

Penny dreadfuls were cheap 19th century British magazines containing sensational tales of bloodsucking ghouls, accursed sarcophagi and other oddities. I imagine they were the print equivalent of Inday Badiday’s old TV program See-True, which in the 90s provided our daily ration of women giving birth to fish, men getting pregnant, and assorted weirdos, mostly of […]