#pennydreadful — Public Fediverse posts
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“A taste for the penny dreadful is utterly devoid of excuse,” sniffed one critic of 1847. Yet the serpentine romances held whole slums in thrall. Take G. W. M. Reynolds’s WAGNER THE WEHR-WOLF, sold in penny parts from 1846: a man who sold his soul for a leap into the moonlit woods, and paid nightly in fur. Issued cliff by cliff to readers who could not wait the week. It is not greatness; it is appetite. Examine the hunger, and you hold the age. #PennyDreadful #VictorianEra
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“A taste for the penny dreadful is utterly devoid of excuse,” sniffed one critic of 1847. Yet the serpentine romances held whole slums in thrall. Take G. W. M. Reynolds’s WAGNER THE WEHR-WOLF, sold in penny parts from 1846: a man who sold his soul for a leap into the moonlit woods, and paid nightly in fur. Issued cliff by cliff to readers who could not wait the week. It is not greatness; it is appetite. Examine the hunger, and you hold the age. #PennyDreadful #VictorianEra