Penny Dreadful Season 1 (2014) introduces Vanessa Ives, a mysterious medium, and Sir Malcolm Murray, an explorer, who team up with American gunslinger Ethan Chandler to rescue Murray’s daughter from a dark supernatural force. Created by John Logan and starring Eva Green, Josh Hartnett, Timothy Dalton, Harry Treadaway, Reeve Carney, Rory Kinnear, and Billie Piper, this Showtime series is set in Victorian London, 1891. They recruit Dr. Victor Frankenstein to aid their quest, but soon Frankenstein finds himself stalked by his abandoned undead creation. As the group battles vampires and other creatures from classic literature including figures from Dracula, Vanessa discovers she is being hunted by Lucifer, who wishes to make her his bride. This first season of eight episodes weaves together iconic literary characters including Dorian Gray in a psychological horror thriller.
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