Author: Sharon Gosling
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1783293721
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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PENNY DREADFUL is a frightening psychological thriller that weaves together classic horror origin stories into a new adult drama. The Showtime TV series was created by John Logan and executive produced by Logan and Sam Mendes and stars Josh Hartnett (Sin City), Eva Green (Casino Royale), Billie Piper (Doctor Who) and Timothy Dalton (License to Kill).
Author: Laurel Snyder
Publisher: Yearling
ISBN: 0375861696
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322
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From the author of Any Which Wall, comes another story of magic and how it can change you. In Penny Dreadful the magic is small, but the transformation is big. Penelope Grey is a lonely, wealthy child in a nothern big city who, by a twist of fate, becomes Penny: a happy, poor child in the rural south. Rich with unusual and appealing characters, Penny Dreadful asks readers to think about who they really are and what they really want. For fans of Polly Horvath, Lemony Snicket, and Kate diCamillo!
Author: Julie Grossman
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031121805
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 287
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This edited collection is the first book-length critical study of the Showtime-Sky Atlantic television series Penny Dreadful (2014-2016), which also includes an analysis of Showtime’s 2020 spin-off City of Angels. Chapters examine the status of the series as a work of twenty-first-century cable television, contemporary Gothic-horror, and intermedial adaptation, spanning sources as diverse as eighteenth and nineteenth-century British fiction and poetry, American dime novels, theatrical performance, Hollywood movies, and fan practices. Featuring iconic monsters such as Dr. Frankenstein and his Creature, the “bride” of Frankenstein, Dracula, the werewolf, Dorian Gray, and Dr. Jekyll, Penny Dreadful is a mash-up of familiar texts and new Gothic figures such as spiritualist Vanessa Ives, played by the magnetic Eva Green. As a recent example of adapting multiple sources in different media, Penny Dreadful has as much to say about the Romantic and Victorian eras as it does about our present-day fascination with screen monsters. Hear the authors talk about the collection here: https://nrftsjournal.org/monsters-all-are-we-not-an-interview-with-julie-grossman-and-will-scheibel/
Author: Sharon Gosling
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 1630790109
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 263
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No-one performs on the circus trapeze like 16-year-old Remy Brunel. But Remy also leads another life, prowling through the backstreets of Victorian London as a jewel thief. When she is forced to steal one of the world's most valuable diamonds, she uncovers a world of treachery and fiendish plots.
Author: Chris King
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1785861433
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The continuation of the Penny Dreadful story where the future of humanity is at stake! The continuation of the Penny Dreadful story where the future of humanity is at stake!
Author: Bram Stoker
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1783293640
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Written in 1897, Stoker’s novel introduces the iconic character of the vampire Count Dracula. Through a series of letters and diary entries, the novel tells the story of Dracula's attempt to move from Transylvania to England, and the battle between Dracula and a small group of men and women led by Professor Abraham Van Helsing. Although Stoker did not invent the vampire, he defined its modern form as we know it today.
Author: Elizabeth Macneal
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 1982111933
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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In this “sharp, scary, gorgeously evocative tale of love, art, and obsession” (Paula Hawkins, bestselling author of The Girl on the Train), a beautiful young woman aspires to be an artist, while a man’s dark obsession may destroy her world forever. The Doll Factory is a sweeping tale of curiosity, love, and possession set among all the sordidness and soaring ambition of 1850s London. The greatest spectacle London has ever seen is being erected in Hyde Park and, among the crowd watching, two people meet. For Iris, an aspiring artist of unique beauty, it is the encounter of a moment—forgotten seconds later—but for Silas, a curiosity collector enchanted by the strange and beautiful, the meeting marks a new beginning. When Iris is asked to model for Pre-Raphaelite artist Louis Frost, she agrees on the condition that he will also teach her to paint, and suddenly her world expands beyond anything she ever dreamed of. But she has no idea that evil stalks her. Silas, it seems, has thought of only one thing since that chance meeting, and his obsession is darkening by the day...
Author: Joseph A. Lovece
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781508525974
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 58
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100 years of British penny dreadfuls, story papers and boy's weeklies come to life in 50 rare full-color images! From Dick Turpin to the Iron Teacher, get ready for airships, African Explorers, highwaymen, robots, giant monsters and superheroes. it's ripping and cracking!
Author: Megen de Bruin-Molé
Publisher:
ISBN: 135023446X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The bestselling genre of Frankenfiction sees classic literature turned into commercial narratives invaded by zombies, vampires, werewolves, and other fantastical monsters. Too engaged with tradition for some and not traditional enough for others, these 'monster mashups' are often criticized as a sign of the artistic and moral degeneration of contemporary culture. These hybrid creations are the 'monsters' of our age, lurking at the limits of responsible consumption and acceptable appropriation. This book explores the boundaries and connections between contemporary remix and related modes, including adaptation, parody, the Gothic, Romanticism, and postmodernism. Taking a multimedia approach, case studies range from novels like Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and The Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club series, to television programmes such as Penny Dreadful, to popular visual artworks like Kevin J. Weir's Flux Machine GIFs. Megen de Bruin-Molé uses these monstrous and liminal works to show how the thrill of transgression has been contained within safe and familiar formats, resulting in the mashups that dominate Western popular culture.
Author: Ruth Stiles Gannett
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0394890493
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 94
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A stand-alone sequel to My Father's Dragon, in which Elmer Elevator and the flying baby dragon help the king of the canaries find treasure.
