The Penny Dreadful
Submitted by capriox bovidae on Thu, 02/11/2010 - 7:59pm
A guide to serial weblit in the tradition of the old penny dreadful publications. The site lists weblit updates with excerpts from recent posts, but doesn't host the whole story like digitalnovelists.com does.
From their site: "The Penny Dreadful is the next step in the evolution of serial fiction. The internet provides a perfect media for creating short, ongoing stories that are inexpensive to produce and easy to distribute. Our authors will be pushing the boundaries of what can be done in an episodic format, and stretching their own creative talent to keep their readers coming back for more."
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My web serial Black Mask &
My web serial Black Mask & Pale Rider was based on this. Or at least the North American equivalent Dime Novel. Hearkening back to the days of spaghetti westerns and throwing in a dash of elven magic, I always imagined Black Mask & Pale Rider in the form of those books published in the 1800's that were written about Billy the Kid, Doc Holliday, Wyatt Earp and others. I've even thought of writing two separate, shorter novellas about each of the characters in Black Mask & Pale Rider, entitled The Legend of Black Mask and The Legend of Pale Rider.
A while back, when I was still writing the ground work for Black Mask & Pale Rider, I even wrote a small editorial on Dime Novels and Penny Dreadfuls.
http://taholtorf.wordpress.com/2008/09/02/dime-novels-penny-dreadfuls/
Both the History and the
Both the History and the Gulch were inspired by penny dreadfuls, though they're not quite histrionic enough for the old form.
Lord Likely's adventures draw
Lord Likely's adventures draw from the penny dreadful form in part, although as his lordship has pointed out, his tales are 'worth a damned sight more than a penny, and are far from dreadful'. The cad.