Penny Dreadful premieres on Showtime’s web site in 2014. The horror series named after the cheap, sensationalistic 19th-Century British publications, features a group of characters that might have appeared in them like Dr. Frankenstein, his Creature, Dorian Gray, a werewolf, an explorer, and a medium, and it stars Timothy Dalton, Eva Green and Josh Hartnett. The show runs for three seasons and is critically well-regarded. A spinoff would follow.
This Day in Halloween: Horror drama "Penny Dreadful" -- featuring Eva Green -- premieres on Showtime’s web site in 2014. / Illustration by Henry Ploch
