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The Penny Dreadful Hour; or, A Feast of Early-Victorian Street Literature and Stories (no AI)

Finn J.D. John/ Pulp-Lit Productions

This is the podcast that carries you back to the sooty, foggy streets of early-Victorian London when a new issue of one of the "Penny Dreadful" blood-and-thunder story paper comes out! It"s like an early-Victorian variety show, FEATURING ... — Sweeney Todd ... — Varney, the Vampyre ... — Highwayman Dick Turpin ... — mustache-twirling villains ... — virtuous ballet-girls ... —wicked gamblers ... ... and more! Spiced with naughty cock-and-hen-club songs, broadsheet street ballads, and lots of

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01:43:39

025: A vampire bride for Charles Holland? ......

The Penny Dreadful Hour; or, A Feast of... ·

2025/05/18

FIVE NEW FLASH-CANT WORDS AND PHRASES —"On the Mace""Angelics""Misstopper""Bone" and "Bank the swag""Arch doxies, ack pirates, pigmen, rum quod culls, laced women and flowers of society"Plus a chapter each from our five vintage Penny Dreadfuls!0:04:20: SWEENEY TODD, Ch. 49 —Poor barber’s apprentice Tobias Ragg remains in a state of temporary insanity. But Tobias’s dim-witted mother has brought back his childhood sweetheart, Minna Grey. Will

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00:33:16

024: Ha'penny Horrid Minisode: Hints for the...

The Penny Dreadful Hour; or, A Feast of... ·

2025/05/14

IN WHICH we explore a fascinating little guidebook for all aspiring Swell Coves, from 1840. It’s titled “Hints to Men-About-Town,” and was written by an anonymous knight of the goosefeather who identifies himself only as “The Old Medical Student.” It's a series of three, starting with this episode. In it, we'll learn how to gracefully recover from the visible effects of getting involved in a drunken riot, or a street brawl, or maybe an unsuccessful attempt to box a charley — or whatever other

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01:35:45

023: Can Minna bring Tobias back? — The highwayman's...

The Penny Dreadful Hour; or, A Feast of... ·

2025/05/11

A THIEVES' SONG TRANSLATED —The beak looked big, and shook his head, heigh-ho the beak!He wished those family coves were dead, that honest folk might get their bread; heigh-ho the beak!The family cove, he grinned a grin, heigh-ho the cove!He said 'to prig I think no sin, for sure a Romany must have tin'; heigh-ho the cove!Plus a chapter each from our five vintage Penny Dreadfuls!0:04:30: SWEENEY TODD, Ch. 48 —Poor Tobias Ragg’s dingbat mother has made things worse instead of better. But then the

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01:23:46

022: Beefeater Ben's revenge — Dick Turpin Escapes —...

The Penny Dreadful Hour; or, A Feast of... ·

2025/05/04

FIVE NEW FLASH-CANT WORDS AND PHRASES —"Autem bawler""Cat's meat shop""Bulldogs""Cross-crib""Hoister mots, high tobers, and Moabites"Plus a chapter each from our five vintage Penny Dreadfuls!0:04:30: SWEENEY TODD, Ch. 47 —Johanna Oakley’s mother is on a rampage, trying to persuade her to consent to marry Pastor Lupin. Luckily, Big Ben the beefeater stops by with some victuals ... and, remember, last time that happened, Mrs. Oakley put some kind

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00:19:07

021. A brief biography of Highwayman Dick Turpin,...

The Penny Dreadful Hour; or, A Feast of... ·

2025/04/30

IN WHICH we learn some of the back story of the unlikely "hero" of Black Bess; or, The Knight of the Road, courtesy of a 12-page children's chapbook published by Samuel and John Keys of Devonport in or around 1840 ... almost exactly 100 years after the real Dick Turpin was hanged for his depredations!Be sure to join us this Saturday night for the next full episode of the Penny Dreadful Story Hour!

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01:43:46

020: A dog's life saved from Sweeney Todd—Dick Turpin...

The Penny Dreadful Hour; or, A Feast of... ·

2025/04/27

*stands for "A Fate Worse Than Death." We'll be seeing a lot of this!FIVE NEW FLASH-CANT WORDS AND PHRASES —"Lawful Blanket""Gunpowder""Timber merchant""Swill Tub""Philistines"Plus a chapter each from our five vintage Penny Dreadfuls!0:05:00: SWEENEY TODD, Ch. 46 —The ostler from a hotel across the way arrives just in time to save Hector, the dog, from Sweeney Todd’s pistol. Then, as he rages over his failure to kill the dog, a customer

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01:34:36

019: Major Bounce is bounced — Dick Turpin runs for...

The Penny Dreadful Hour; or, A Feast of... ·

2025/04/20

FIVE NEW FLASH-CANT WORDS AND PHRASES —"Academician""Tog and kicks""Shooting the cat""Jobber knot""Knife it"Plus a chapter each from our five vintage Penny Dreadfuls!0:04:10: SWEENEY TODD, Ch. 45 —Major Bounce steps into Sweeney Todd’s shop and asks to have his mustache shaved off ... will Sweeney Todd “polish him off,” do you think? We’ll see.0:18:00: BLACK BESS (Dick Turpin) Ch. 7 — Highwayman Dick Turpin is awakened from his slumber with the word that the “redbreasts” — Bow Street runners,

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01:36:40

018: Mrs. Lovett's beau is shaved — The highwayman's...

The Penny Dreadful Hour; or, A Feast of... ·

2025/04/13

FIVE NEW FLASH-CANT WORDS AND PHRASES —"Glim""Bolt the moon""Nubbing""Flat-catchers""The holy land"Plus a chapter each from our five vintage Penny Dreadfuls!0:03:45: SWEENEY TODD, Ch. 44 —Mrs. Lovett, disappointed at learning the truth about her new beau, Major Bounce, plots to avenge her wounded pride by getting him made into pies ...0:20:00: BLACK BESS (Dick Turpin) Ch. 6 — Highwayman Dick Turpin, weak from loss of blood, sees a spectral horseman

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00:04:50

017: In which Prof. Flash eats his own dogfood, and...

The Penny Dreadful Hour; or, A Feast of... ·

2025/04/09

Just a quick update! After "dogfooding" last Saturday's episode, Prof. Flash has concluded that —the "Dreadful Dossiers" slow things down too much ...so does having Sweeney Todd and Varney the Vampyre back-to-back ...dogfooding is great and P.F. highly recommends the same to all fellow creative professionals!Be sure to join us this Saturday for the next full episode of the Penny Dreadful Story Hour!

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01:43:47

016: Sweeny Todd's nightmare vision — the Vampyre's...

The Penny Dreadful Hour; or, A Feast of... ·

2025/04/06

Join Professor Flash, a.k.a. Finn J.D. John. for a 90-minute spree through the story papers of old London! Grab a flicker of blue ruin, unload your stumps, and let's go!0:03:45: DREADFUL-DOSSIERS REPORT —A 10-minute briefing on how The Barber of Fleet-street; or, The String of Pearls (feat. Sweeney Todd) came to be.0:14:00: SWEENEY TODD, Ch. 43 —We open on Mr. Todd getting a letter from Mr. Fogg, lying to him to tell him Tobias has died. He is pleased, but then he slips upstairs to make sure no one

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01:40:26

015: IN WHICH we blow the gab, draw a cork, and sip...

The Penny Dreadful Hour; or, A Feast of... ·

2025/03/30

FIRST — in Flash Academy, we'll learn what blowing the gab, drawing a cork, cat lap, "as right as a trivet," and Captain Flasham meant, in highwaymen's slang.THEN — we hit five different story papers from the Golden Age of Penny Dreadfuls in old London!IN SWEENEY TODD, Ch. 41-42 (starts at :06 mins.)—Sir Richard Blunt and Mr. Crotchet find some very singular things in Sweeney Todd’s house, including what Crotchet proclaims “the toggery of the smugged ‘uns.” Crotchet decides to stay

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00:51:25

014: Bonus midweek episode! With Dick Turpin,...

The Penny Dreadful Hour; or, A Feast of... ·

2025/03/26

A mid-week catch-up to get the numbers right means we've got Chapter 3 of our three newest Dreadfuls coming your way!IN BLACK BESS; OR, THE KNIGHT OF THE ROAD: Dick Turpin foils the woodman's treachery, then discovers a sinister secret beneath the floor of his strange forest hut ...IN SPRING-HEEL'D JACK, THE TERROR OF LONDON: Jack turns the tables on his two pursuers and leaves them stuck in a field without their trousers ...IN THE BLACK BAND; OR, THE MYSTERIES OF MIDNIGHT: We meet the

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01:36:03

013: Exploring Sweeny Todd's house ... Spring-Heel'd...

The Penny Dreadful Hour; or, A Feast of... ·

2025/03/23

FIRST — in Flash Academy, we'll learn what high pads, glims flashy, high flyer, drawing a long bow, and hopping the twig meant, in highwaymens' slang.THEN — we plunder five different story papers! In Sweeney Todd —Sir Richard Blunt rents an attic room in the building next to Sweeney Todd’s house from the owner, a henpecked shoemaker. Sir Richard and Crotchet slip in through an attic window and make some rather remarkable discoveries ...In Varney the Vampyre —The brothers rush to the wall

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01:36:03

012: Introducing Dick Turpin, Spring-Heel'd Jack, and...

The Penny Dreadful Hour; or, A Feast of... ·

2025/03/19

INTRODUCING our NEW FORMAT!FIRST — in Flash Academy, we'll learn what Paddington Fair Day, Darby's Fair, Barking Irons, and Cherry-Coloured Prads meant, in highwaymens' slang.THEN — we plunder five different story papers! In Sweeney Todd —We meet Major Bounce, the "swaggering companion" and Mrs. Lovett's beau ideal — who, unfortunately, has lost her favour and seems destined to end up in a pie ...Meanwhile, Tobias's mother tries to call him out of his delirium, but ends up making things worse.In

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01:27:16

011: Sweeney Todd ch. 33-36 and HUGE NEWS! Plus...

The Penny Dreadful Hour; or, A Feast of... ·

2025/03/16

BIG DOINGS! This week, in addition to plundering Sweeney Todd, we're adding Varney the Vampyre to the show. Next week, we'll add Black Bess; or, The Knight of the Road and Spring-Heel'd Jack, the Terror of London and The Black Band; or, The Mysteries of Midnight to the line-up. We can't wait!FIRST we'll learn what "bursters," "Mrs. Jones's counting-house," "Knights of the Hod," "Moonshine," and "Nob-thatchers" were in

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01:07:16

010: Sweeney Todd ch.30-31-32, and more flash lingo!

The Penny Dreadful Hour; or, A Feast of... ·

2025/03/09

IN WHICH we learn what "a flash of lightning," "a noggen of red tape," "hot flannel," "blackstrap," and "heavy wet" meant in 1830 ...THEN — Tobias just barely escapes from the wrath of Fogg and Watson by hiding in the room of a fellow inmate, another sane person – a girl who’s been put here so her inheritance can be stolen. Tobias and the girl make a play for escape, but the rope breaks and she falls into the madhouse-keeper’s pitiless hands as

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00:56:14

009: Ch. 26-27-28-29, Sweeney Todd; plus some...

The Penny Dreadful Hour; or, A Feast of... ·

2025/03/02

IN WHICH we learn what "Gammon," "Heavers," "High Gloaks," "Bounceable Cyprians," and "Boners of Stiff-Ones" meant in 1830 ...THEN — Colonel Jeffery and his friend Captain Rathbone actually watch a wealthy out-of-town customer enter Sweeney Todd’s shop and never come out. The colonel almost decides to investigate by being shaved there, but luckily his friend restrains him. ... Tobias, in the madhouse, starts shrieking for help and thereby meets Mr

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01:09:47

008: Ch. 22-23-24-25, Sweeney Todd

The Penny Dreadful Hour; or, A Feast of... ·

2025/02/23

IN WHICH poor Tobias is uncomfortably settled into a dungeon cell in the lunatic asylum; Mrs. Lovett’s cook learns the bitter truth, that he is a prisoner enslaved and must make pies for her if he wants to live; and madhouse keeper Fogg tells Sweeney Todd a nice little bedtime story, as a sort of character reference, over a bottle of wine stolen from one of his patients. Things are hotting right up now!A tip-top evening to all you game hellcats, highway snafflers and knights of the brush and moon

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00:53:00

007: Ch. 18-19-20-21, Sweeney Todd

The Penny Dreadful Hour; or, A Feast of... ·

2025/02/16

IN WHICH Tobias breaks into Sweeney Todd’s back parlor while he is out and finds a vast trove of hats, sticks, and jewelry clearly plundered from the dead ... parishoners at St. Dunstan’s church start noticing a strange, nasty odor wafting up from the crypts below ... Tobias runs away, but stops to see his mother, who inadvertently betrays him into Todd’s hands ... and Todd seizes him and carries him off to a lunatic asylum. Is this the end of Tobias? We shall see.A tip-top evening to all you bingo

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00:51:20

006: Ch. 14-15-16-17, Sweeney Todd

The Penny Dreadful Hour; or, A Feast of... ·

2025/02/09

IN WHICH Tobias, the barber’s apprentice, has become absolutely certain Sweeney Todd is murdering his customers — Colonel Jeffery and Johanna Oakley decide that the murdered Mr. Thornhill must be Johanna’s missing beau, Mark, in disguise ... are they right? — and finally, Sweeney Todd dresses as a duke to try to basically pawn the string of pearls to a high-end moneylender.A tip-top evening to all you ladybirds, out-and-outers, gravel-tax collectors and knights of the brush and moon! Welcome once

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