Lily Frankenstein is among the public domain characters in Penny Dreadful .
The series draws upon many public domain characters from 19th-century British and Irish fiction , including Dorian Gray from Oscar Wilde 's The Picture of Dorian Gray , Mina Harker , Abraham Van Helsing , Renfield and Count Dracula from Bram Stoker 's Dracula , Victor Frankenstein and his monster from Mary Shelley 's Frankenstein , Lily Frankenstein , Ethan Lawrence Talbot from The Wolfman , and Dr. Henry Jekyll from Robert Louis Stevenson 's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde .
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