penny dreadful draws characters from works
the series draws upon many public domain characters from 19thcentury british and irish fiction  including dorian gray from oscar wilde s the picture of dorian gray  mina harker  abraham van helsing  dr seward  renfield  and count dracula from bram stoker s dracula  victor frankenstein and his monster from mary shelley s frankenstein  and dr henry jekyll from robert louis stevenson s strange case of dr jekyll and mr hyde