It feels like Halloween every day for the L.A. composer of creepy Showtime TV horror series “Penny Dreadful.”

For Abel Korzeniowski puts music to scary scenes of blood and gore despite being of a nervous disposition himself.

“I’m easily scared and the show is hard for me to watch,” admitted Korzeniowski, 43, who lives in the Hollywood Hills and records the show’s score with a 35-piece orchestra in Glendale.

He has received a Bafta Award as well as Emmy and Golden Globe nominations for his work on the acclaimed series – but probably deserves a bravery medal, too.

“I have to watch the episodes over and over again when composing,” he said. “And scenes of syringes, injections, gore and psychological terror are really hard for me – but it’s a great show.”

Despite his fears, the Polish-born composer has signed up to return for the upcoming third season of the show, which stars Eva Green and Timothy Dalton. But, he admitted, “I just think my next job should maybe be something a little more relaxing and less intense.”

Speedy Conversion

Speaking of intense, orthopedic surgeon Andrew Bulczynski got hooked on car racing when he was only 8.

His father pulled off to the side of the road in their native Poland to show Bulczynski and his brother a car race they’d happened upon on an airstrip.

“I found it really exciting. The noise, the speed, the smell, the sound,” remembered Bulczynski, now 46, who works at DISC Sports & Spine Center in Marina del Rey.

But it took several decades before he got on a race track himself. In 2007, he finally had the time and money to find and buy his dream car: a diamond blue metallic 1987 Porsche 911 Carrera.

After joining the Porsche Club of America, Bulczynski honed his driving skills and started racing autocross. At the events, often held in a parking lot or on a decommissioned airstrip, drivers circle a track laid out with cones, doing time trials at speeds upwards of 100 miles an hour.

Bulczynski will head up to Buttonwillow raceway near Bakersfield in a few months for his first race in more than a year.

“I find this incredible sense of calm,” he said of speeding down the track and breaking just enough to still hug the tight corners. “It takes a lot of concentration.”

Staff reporters Sandro Monetti and Marni Usheroff contributed to this column. Page 3 is compiled by Editor Charles Crumpley. He can be reached at [email protected].