In spirit, TRADE YOUR COFFIN FOR A GUN is a penny dreadful for this era. If you go back and read some of these awful/awesome little slabs of sick, you'd be surprised how off hook insane and yet engaging they were.
Some are still available either online in crappy reprints or via torrent. "Varney the Vampire", "The Black Bend", "Black Bess" and "The String of Pearls".
A good overview of the "penny dreadful" genre.
http://www.bl.uk/romantics-and-victorians/articles/penny-dreadfuls
A link with several .pdf files.
http://halfpennydreadfuls.com/
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