Question: Do you like literature? Yes, of course you do, how silly of me to ask. Do you also like monsters, provided they’re menacing someone who is not you? Uh-huh, and what about psychosexual horror flicks? If you can emphatically check all these off under your “things that are awesome to me” list, then you will be quite please to learn that, according to The Hollywood Reporter, Showtime has given a series commitment to a period drama from John Logan and Sam Mendes called Penny Dreadful, which will feature Dr. Frankenstein, his monster, Dorian Gray, Van Helsing, and presumably some female protagonists because 19th-century literature was not a paranormal circle jerk.