Penny Dreadful subtitles?

[the panopticountolaf]

This has been bugging me for a while, so I thought I'd open it up to the forum. We know that the penny dreadful version of THE MISERABLE MILL's full title was THE MISERABLE MILL, or, HYPNOTISM! We also know that the penny dreadful version of Book Five was THE AUSTERE ACADEMY, or, KIDNAPPING! (Which spoils the end of the story, but that's beside the point.) Now, there's been evidence that the penny dreadful version of THE ERSATZ ELEVATOR was being worked on at the time of this project's cancellation, but we don't know what the title would have been... What would you have wanted the subtitle (and the subtitles for the rest of this version of the series) to be? I've decided that I'd personally want Book Six's subtitle to be TREACHERY! and Book Eight's to be SURGERY! but I've had some trouble with the others. The later books especially are very tricky to sum up in one word.

So, what say you? How would you subtitle the rest of the books, and why? Would you change the subtitles for any of the released books?

[Dante]

As you might imagine, there's been some discussion of this matter in a previous thread, in which you'll find many such suggestions; but I see no reason not to have a fresh start. Here are my ideas as of getting on for a decade ago:

Nov 20, 2011 14:03:36 GMT -5 Dante said:

TEE: Darkness!
TVV: Imprisonment!
THH: Surgery!
TCC: Freaks! or Disguises!
TSS: Traps!
TGG: Poison! or Betrayal!
TPP: Arson!
The End: Castaways!

On reflection, a better idea for TVV might be something like Jailed!, or Wanted! or perhaps even Fugitives! TSS - Pitfalls!, perhaps.

[counto]

So ASOUE the book series written by Lemony would be done in a Penny Dreadful style way? Interesting, cause PD's were very popular in early 1830's with such stories as Sweeney Todd, Dick Turpin and Varney the Vampire in Great Britain. They did decline however in the last 1890's with the rise of competing literature. Penny Dreadful stories are broken up between 8-16 pages separate sold weekly costing a penny.

If Lemony was publishing in a similar way in the in-verse story, then he would've written and published a lot more books or separate pieces of literature then D. Handler.