| He was celebrated on stage and in penny dreadfuls, and took on a new folkloric persona as a waylayer of solitary travellers. |
| He became a voracious reader, and was fond of Penny Dreadfuls and the works of Robert Michael Ballantyne and James Fenimore Cooper. |
| 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. |
| Pulps were the successor to the penny dreadfuls, dime novels, and short fiction magazines of the 19th century. |
| He is a man who writes what used to be called penny dreadfuls. |
| At one end of the scale, penny dreadfuls carried police court news of murder, rape and violent crime, which must have brightened many a dull life. |
