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Penny Dreadful

Some of literature's most terrifying characters, including Dr. Frankenstein, Dorian Gray, and iconic figures from the novel Dracula are lurking in the darkest corners of Victorian London. Penny Dreadful is a frightening psychological thriller that weaves

(40 total)

Seasons

Season 1 (32)Season 2 (8)Season 3

Characters

John Logan (40)Vanessa Ives (9)Eva Green (9)Sir Malcolm (8)Timothy Dalton (8)Harry Treadaway (7)Dr. Victor Frankenstein (7)Reeve Carney (6)Dorian Gray (6)The Creature (5)

“All sad people like poetry. Happy people like songs.”

— John Logan, Vanessa Ives, Eva Green, imdb.com

Tagged: Sad, Poetry, Happy, Songs

“Photographs are so ironically impermanent. They capture one moment in time to perfection. A painting can capture eternity.”

— John Logan, Dorian Gray, Reeve Carney, imdb.com

Tagged: photographs, Impermanent, Irony, one moment, Time

“What would Dr. Frankenstein be without his creature?”

— John Logan, The Creature, Rory Kinnear, imdb.com

Tagged: Creation, purpose, Fame

“Sir Malcolm Murray: She will cease to be who she is. Ethan Chandler: Then I will love who she becomes.”

— John Logan, Ethan Chandler, Josh Hartnett, imdb.com

Tagged: Love, Becomes, cease to exisit

“Your father loves you very much and would do anything to save you. But I love you in a different way. I love you enough to kill yo”

— John Logan, Vanessa Ives, Eva Green, imdb.com

Tagged: Love, Life, Death, save, Kill

“I tried to pray that night and God didn’t answer me, but another did.”

— John Logan, Vanessa Ives, Eva Green, imdb.com

Tagged: Pray, God, demon, answered

“Perhaps it has always been there, this thing, this demon inside me. Or behind my back, waiting for me to turn around.”

— John Logan, Vanessa Ives, Eva Green, imdb.com

Tagged: demon, inside me, Soul, Behind Your Back

“We've all done things to survive. There are such sins at my back it would kill me to turn around.”

— John Logan, Ethan Chandler, Josh Hartnett, imdb.com

Tagged: survive, Survival, sins, Death

“Things are so rarely what they seem.”

— John Logan, Vanessa Ives, Eva Green, imdb.com

Tagged: Rarely, What they seem, unexpected

“You seek to threaten me with death? If you seek to threaten me, threaten me with life.”

— John Logan, Dr. Victor Frankenstein, Harry Treadaway, imdb.com

Tagged: Threat, Life, Death, Threaten

“Once you get used to something, why bother? It's just repetition.”

— John Logan, Dorian Gray, Reeve Carney, imdb.com

Tagged: used to something, Repetition, Why bother?

“Vanessa Ives: Is it poisonous? Dorian Gray: Like all beautiful things, I hope so.”

— John Logan, Dorian Gray, Reeve Carney, imdb.com

Tagged: Beautiful, Posionious, I hope so

“When you transform a life, you're making it anew. Whatever happens to that creature downstairs, we are responsible for it. It is our burden now. Every action builds another link that binds us to it. That chain is everlasting.”

— John Logan, Dr. Victor Frankenstein, Harry Treadaway, imdb.com

Tagged: Transform, Life, anew, Rebirth, responsible

“We here have been brutalized with loss. It has made us brutal in return. There is no going back from this moment.”

— John Logan, Vanessa Ives, Eva Green, imdb.com

Tagged: brutalized, Loss, Brutal, no going back

“You see, you're hunting for a man. You need to start hunting for a beast”

— John Logan, Sir Malcolm, Timothy Dalton, imdb.com

Tagged: Hunting, Man, Beast

“Your hands want to touch, but your head wants to appraise. Your heart is torn between the two.”

— John Logan, Dorian Gray, Reeve Carney, imdb.com

Tagged: hand, heart, Touch, Torn, Head

“Man does not live only in the empirical. We must seek the ephemeral, or why live?”

— John Logan, Dr. Victor Frankenstein, Harry Treadaway, imdb.com

Tagged: Life, Living, Empirical, ephemeral

“I thought of a particular lion hunt many years ago. You're moving through the tall grass, getting a glimpse of the prey, the shoulders mostly, the mane. You prepare your rifle. You're very quiet. And then there's a moment. The wind changes, the grass stops swaying. The lion turns, looks at you. The…”

— John Logan, Sir Malcolm, Timothy Dalton, imdb.com

Tagged: Memory, Lions, Predator, Prey, hunt

“My mother taught me many things. Among the most useful is that one must always have Shakespeare at hand.”

— John Logan, Dr. Victor Frankenstein, Harry Treadaway, imdb.com

Tagged: mother, useful, shakespeare, Teaching The young

“There is only one worthy goal for scientific exploration... piercing the tissue that separates life from death. Everything else, from the deep bottom of the sea to the top of the highest mountain on the farthest planet, is insignificant.”

— John Logan, Dr. Victor Frankenstein, Harry Treadaway, imdb.com

Tagged: Science, Life And Death, insignificant, scientific exploration