penny dreadful

NOUN
  1. a melodramatic paperback novel
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  • In their heyday, the Penny Dreadfuls sometimes called "bloods" or "shilling shockers" were produced en-masse. Penny Dreadfuls
  • From dime novels and penny dreadfuls through to the pulp boom of the early 20th century which gave us the modern commercial genres of Western, Crime, Romance, Science Fiction and so on, that process continues, with all these genres being defined as “pulp fiction” which by now is intrinsically in contradistinction to “literary fiction”. Archive 2009-05-01
  • I refer to his inclusion of the term penny dreadful. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 2
  • However, it does contain one blunder: the phrase penny dreadful does not exemplify a postpositive modifier. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 2
  • This website celebrates this process with sections on printing technology, illustrations, lithography, wood engraving, the novel, yellowbacks, penny dreadfuls and children's books.
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