Synonyms for penny dreadful

Grammar : Noun

penny dreadful

Définition of penny dreadful

As in dime novel : noun inexpensive melodramatic or romantic paperback novel

Example sentences :

He did for the penny dreadful what Coleridge had done for the penny ballad.
Extract from : « The Victorian Age in Literature » by G. K. Chesterton

That they were the "light reading" of adults, the equivalent of to-day's Ally Sloper or the penny dreadful, is much more probable.
Extract from : « Children's Books and Their Illustrators » by Gleeson White

My remembrance of Irish county towns at that time is that no literature flourished except the Penny Dreadful and the local press.
Extract from : « Imaginations and Reveries » by (A.E.) George William Russell

I used it in the approved style of the penny dreadful—pointed it with a stiff arm at my friend's head.
Extract from : « From Sea to Sea » by Rudyard Kipling

If this were done, literature of the "penny dreadful" description would to a great extent be excluded.
Extract from : « How to be Happy Though Married » by E. J. Hardy.

To drive the penny dreadful out of the literary field is not a task beyond the powers of organization and enterprise.
Extract from : « Mr. Punch's History of Modern England Vol. III of IV » by Charles L. Graves

"Some lazy loafer reading a penny dreadful," I thought, glancing at him, then at the title of his book.
Extract from : « In Search of the Unknown » by Robert W. Chambers

To Mr. Palmer's "penny dreadful" plot, the local newspapers add lying details of their own.
Extract from : « The Great Steel Strike and its Lessons » by William Z. Foster

Transcriber's Note: This book was originally published in "penny dreadful" form.
Extract from : « Varney the Vampire » by Thomas Preskett Prest

But this thing's elaborately simple, like a penny dreadful: 'In the purple grotto you will find the golden casket.'
Extract from : « The Wisdom of Father Brown » by G. K. Chesterton

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