Penny Dreadful
Cynthia Lee
At the Glass Town Establishment for Girls, bodies hunger and imaginations starve. Mr. Glass believes that the "less promising" girls of the world should never imagine a future full of choices. Belle begins to secretly write stories for her two new and equally unpromising friends at the school, stories about a fierce and often blood-splattered heroine named Penny Dreadful. Penny encounters many mythological monsters, a minotaur, a siren, and a gorgon, who resemble some of the people in Belle’s dark world. When one of Belle’s stories quite literally invades Mr. Glass’ home, he marks Belle for rehabilitation and the specter of his cruel factory looms.
But Mr. Glass isn’t the only thing to fear in Glass Town.
You see, there is a place in Glass Town, a ruinous house that squats darkly on its own island. No one is ever seen entering or leaving, some have reported things flying from its roof, others hear the groan and throb of machinery.
Belle will find her way to The House on the Island and become part of its mysteries. She will have only Penny Dreadful to guide her as she improvises a final meeting with Mr. Glass.