Penny Dreadful is a British-American horror comedy television series.
The penny dreadfuls were influential since they were, in the words of one commentator, "the most alluring and low-priced form of escapist reading available to ordinary youth, until the advent in the early 1890s of future newspaper magnate Alfred Harmsworth's price-cutting 'halfpenny dreadfuller'"
The penny dreadfuls inspired the British comics that began to emerge in the 1870s

