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    Penny dreadfuls were cheap popular serial literature produced during the 19th century in the United Kingdom. The pejorative term is roughly interchangeable...
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    Penny Dreadful the witch in an effort to revive the concept of a horror movie host on Boston-area television. The show, Penny Dreadful’s Shilling Shockers...
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    John Needham's Double exciting enough." Punch's review called it a shilling dreadful but was slightly more positive: "there is no room for tall writing...
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    of these storypapers also fell under the general definition of penny dreadfuls (also known as "penny bloods" or "blood and thunders" in their early days)...
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  • "A Badtime Story" – 5:35 "Come on Eileen" – 3:54 "Master Race" – 4:06 "Bombed Out (Instru-mental)" – 4:05 "Penny Dreadful" (Full Shilling Mix) – 3:09...
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  • Jonathan Kydd, along with newcomers Alex Patterson, Mark Pickard, Jill Shilling and Nicola Stapleton. Both videos drew high enough ratings and video sales...
    18 KB (2,658 words) - 19:09, 30 May 2024
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    supported free trade and drastically cut the tax on imported wines from 1 shilling to twopence, a decrease of 83%. English wine was therefore outcompeted...
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    Penny dreadful Pulp magazine Gothic fiction Eugene T. Sawyer Novels portal The English equivalents were generally called penny dreadfuls or shilling shockers...
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  • title is History Lessens – An Introduction to the Artist. Penny Dreadful (Full Shilling Mix) - 3:10 The Silver Cloud's Dark Lining - 3:21 Isle of Jura...
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    write in his book and I verily believe in my heart that Giles Corey is a dreadful wizard for since he had been in prison he or his appearance has come and...
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    given. That same month[clarification needed] she wrote her last poem, A dreadful darkness closes in, in which she deals with being terminally ill. Her health...
    47 KB (5,744 words) - 00:04, 10 May 2024
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    from six shillings to five shillings in 1847, and to three shillings and sixpence or two shillings and sixpence in 1849, with a one shilling "Railway...
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  • inches) bound in brown clothette, with grey dustjackets, priced at one shilling. The covers of the early editions featured title, author’s name and a brief...
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  • episodes 1986 Kaboodle Magic Mirror TV series, Episode: Snow White and the Dreadful Dwarves (Season 1) 1986 The Fast Lane Lynch TV series, 1 episode 1987 The...
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  • foreground. Surrounding inscription "1666 THE GREAT FIRE OF LONDON 2016" with "TWO POUNDS" below THE WHOLE CITY IN DREADFUL FLAMES Aaron West 1,625,000...
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    rent (7 shillings a week which was due every Monday) as their mother was away. He agreed. Robert returned at 7pm to collect his 3 shillings change. Later...
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  • second episode of season 5 of Shilling Shockers, a New England–based television show hosted by the witch Penny Dreadful XIII. Being in the public domain...
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    tells of the hard life of the cowboy. The last verse is: Sometimes it's dreadful stormy and sometimes it's pretty clear You may work a month and you might...
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  • selling for either sixpence or a shilling respectively. It is from their price that they derived the nicknames, "Shilling Shockers" and "Sixpenny Shockers"...
    7 KB (868 words) - 21:55, 28 August 2020
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    of soot (which is highly flammable). Any chimney fire could be fined 3 shillings and 4 pence. With the increased urban population that came with the age...
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