penny-dreadful

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

Chapter 29 2010

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.

England, My England (Never Having Been There) Alan Bradley 2011

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the post-Cracker, post-Lecter generation, the old, penny-dreadful voyeurism depicted in Orwell's essay on murders has been replaced by a more gracious style of connoisseurship, whereby scholarly assessment of the serial murderer is supposed to further understanding of the whole human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

We shouldn't make entertainment out of others' tragedy | Catherine Bennett 2011

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 Scott Harrison 2010

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) 2008

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

Mayhill Fowler: Tea Party Talk: Racism, Palin, and the Hostile Takeover of the Republican Party 2010

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

Mayhill Fowler: Tea Party Talk: Racism, Palin, and the Hostile Takeover of the Republican Party 2010

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.

Michael Rowe: Should the U.S. Get Involved in the Amanda Knox Murder Verdict? Michael Rowe 2010

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.

Michael Rowe: Should the U.S. Get Involved in the Amanda Knox Murder Verdict? 2010

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.

Should the U.S. Get Involved in the Amanda Knox Murder Verdict? 2010