| Public libraries didn't save copies of comic books, penny dreadfuls, or pop CDs either, and so much of that incredibly rich history is hard to find too. |
| He was celebrated on stage and in penny dreadfuls, and took on a new folkloric persona as a waylayer of solitary travellers. |
| Go back two centuries ago and remember how dime novels and penny dreadfuls were no sooner evoked than evicted from church life. |
| From what she could gather, there had been more scandal in that village during the past two months than would fill a dozen penny dreadfuls. |
| In the early 1900s cinema going was similarly demonised, as were the adventure paperbacks known as penny dreadfuls. |
| He is a man who writes what used to be called penny dreadfuls. |
