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Penny dreadfuls were a phenomenon of cheap, popular serial literature in 19th century Britain, featuring sensational stories of detectives, criminals, and supernatural entities. With characters like Sweeney Todd and Varney the Vampire, these weekly publications captivated the masses, selling over a million copies per week by the 1870s. The penny dreadful era was marked by a proliferation of publishers, with up to a hundred companies producing penny-fiction by the 1850s, including [[charles-dickens|Charles Dickens]]' own publications, which often critiqued the social ills of the time, as seen in his works like [[oliver-twist|Oliver Twist]] and [[david-copperfield|David Copperfield]].