Burke and Hare
Count Dracula
Elisabeth Bathory a.k.a. Countess Dracula
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Sherlock Holmeses
Sweeney Todd
The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Wagner the Wehr-Wolf
Lord Ruthven
Sexton Blake
Spring Heeled Jack
Jack the Ripper
Varney the Vampire
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Edinburgh's notorious grave-robbers, whose infamy was captured
in Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale The Body-Snatcher
The immortal Lord of the Vampires, whose reign of
terror has spread far and wide from Transylvania
An historical tyrant whose longing to retain her youth
led her to bathe in the blood of murdered virgins!
One (or two?) of Victorian Gothic fiction's most celebrated characters!
Robert Louis Stevenson wrote the novella in three days and based the tale on a nightmare
The Victorian Era's most infamous serial killer, whose identity continues
to fascinate criminologists the world over even to this day
Victorian detective fiction's most celebrated sleuth, whose exploits
thrilled readers of The Strand over a century ago
Polidori's vampiric anti-hero, modelled on Lord Byron
and predating Bram Stoker's Count by 80 years
One of the Penny Dreadfuls' most notorious devils
- a barber with a glint in his eye and murder in his heart
One of Victorian horror fiction's earliest lycanthropes
Victorian Myth, Penny Dreadful villain or 19th-century ghost?
He terrorised the nation throughout Queen Victoria's reign, and beyond!
The anti-hero of the most famous Penny Dreadful
serial of them all - The Feast of Blood!
The Prince of the Penny Dreadfuls, and the other detective-adventurer
who happened to reside in Baker Street
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The Good, the Bad and the Macabre!
Just some of the glorious and notorious characters you can expect to see in our theatrical shows...
Marie Lloyd
"Our Marie", Queen of the Music Halls, whose cheery Cockney soul endeared her
to Edwardian audiences across the land!
William McGonagall
Scotland's other national poet, whose sheer awfulness has appalled and
delighted in equal measure from the banks of the silvery Tay in bonnie Dundee
to beautiful Balmerino and beyond
Harry Houdini
The Handcuff King, whom no lock could contain! Fabled escapologist, magician and
showman, and arch nemesis of charlatan spiritualists everywhere!
Le Petomane
Joseph Pujol, windswept French flatulist whose remarkable talent was
like a breath of fresh air within the Moulin Rouge!
Tod Slaughter
Barnstorming King of Melodrama, Grande Guignol and bloodthirsty
stage shockers! He'll polish you off, he will!
Dan Leno
King Edward VII's very own Court Jester, unofficial world clog-dancing champion
and Music Hall Clown Prince!
Allan Quatermain
The greatest big game hunter and explorer of lost civilizations the Victorian era produced
His feats of derring-do in darkest Africa thrilled schoolboys across the British Empire!