Penny Dreadful and Adaptation / Palgrave Studies in Adaptation and Visual Culture (PDF)

Penny Dreadful and Adaptation is a brilliantly curated collection of essays responding to a brilliantly curated collection of media monsters. Julie Grossman and Will Scheibel have summoned an array of expert contributors as our guides to the liminal Demimonde: chapters range across Victorian, cosmopolitan and Sadean gothics, 'quality' TV as a kind of dialogue with fandom, and Penny Dreadful's own spin-off progeny. Posing new questions about adaptation and its uncanny/medial qualities, this volume will inspire its very own aca-fans and dedicated Dreadfuls alike.

Professor Matt Hills, author of Fan Cultures and The Pleasures of Horror

Drawing on a wide range of contexts, methods and traditions of representation, Penny Dreadful and Adaptation is endlessly insightful and nuanced. Through the breadth of approaches adopted, this volume's contributors investigate the unbounded textuality of Showtime's landmark television series but also, through this, shed vital new light on the long traditions of retelling that are at the heart of Gothic and horrific cultural forms and their contemporary cultural manifestations.

Kate Egan, Senior Lecturer in Film and Media, Northumbria University, UK.

Julie Grossman is a professor of English and Communication and Film Studies at Le Moyne College in Syracuse, NY, USA.

Will Scheibel is an Associate Professor of English at Syracuse University, USA, where he teaches film and screen studies.