Monday 16 May 2016

Devil 's Bible

According to one version of a legend that was already recorded in the Middle Ages, the scribe was a monk who broke his monastic vows and was sentenced to be walled up alive.  In order to forbear this harsh penalty he promised to create in one day a book to glorify the monastery forever, including all human knowledge. Near midnight, he became sure that he could not complete this task alone, so he made a special prayer, not addressed to God but to the fallen angel Lucifer, asking him to help him finish the book in exchange for his soul. The devil completed the manuscript and the monk added the devil's picture out of gratitude for his aid. In tests to recreate the work, it is estimated that reproducing only the calligraphy, without the illustrations or embellishments, would have taken 5 years of non-stop writing.


In popular fiction, the twelve missing pages of the Codex Gigas are rumoured to contain an apocalyptic text called "The Devil's Prayer"


The script writers from Penny Dreadful  must have been reading up about the Devil's Bible on Wikipedia. 




The introduction of this storyline was good for the pacing in season 2,



until  they ruined it and  made it all about the Wolf of God. 






Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde


Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is a novella by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson   first published in 1886. The work is commonly known today as The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. HydeDr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, or simply Jekyll & Hyde. It is about a London lawyer named Gabriel John Utterson who investigates strange occurrences between his old friend, Dr. Henry Jekyll, and the evil Edward Hyde. The novella's impact is such that it has become a part of the language, with the very phrase "Jekyll and Hyde" coming to mean a person who is vastly different in moral character from one situation to the next.



I  have created Monsters



The old work



Penny Dreadful  Has DR Jekyll and DR Frankenstein set up  as friends.    They both want to make the world a better place !









Let's make the world a better place 


Dracula

Dracula is an 1897 Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker,  famous for introducing the character of the vampire Count Dracula 

The novel tells the story of Dracula's attempt to move from  Transylvania  to England so that he may find new blood and spread the undead curse, and of the battle between Dracula and a small group of men and women led by Professor  Abraham Van Helsing 



Marty Remembers 


Monsters are real , 
 but Dracula isn't.

I  know,

I  killed him.





The Penny Dreadful  Dracula  hasn't been up to much yet ,  or   he is the long awaited Master.