penny dreadful, the name given in the Victorian age to a kind of cheaply produced book containing bloodthirsty narratives of crime, sometimes merely plagiarisms from Gothic novels. In the later 19th century the term was extended to include tamer adventure stories for boys in cheap formats.
penny dreadful
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The noun has one meaning:
Meaning #1:
a melodramatic paperback novel
Synonym: dime novel
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