~ Tobias Locke Abstract: Penny Dreadful’s commercial and critical success stems from its transformative adaptation of the Gothic literary canon that precipitated it, and its willingness to use that adaptation as a vehicle for contemporary discourse. While previous and current scholarly literature has linked Penny Dreadful with theories of adaptation, there has little focus yet on the … Continue reading Cowboys and Wolf-Men: Ethan Chandler, Transgressive Masculinity, and Depictions of The Monstrous in Penny Dreadful