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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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01:07:16

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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01:08:41

005: Ch. 11-12-13, Sweeney Todd

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

2025/02/02

IN WHICH we meet Mrs. Lovett’s pie-baker, who she keeps imprisoned in the basement; then he is slain by an assassin with a hammer, and she has to hire (that is, trap) a new pie-baker. ... Mrs. Oakley revenges herself upon her husband and Big Ben with the help of some kind of purgative she spikes their meal with ... and Johanna’s bestie Arabella Wilmot hatches a scheme for Johanna to dress as a boy to sniff out news of the fate of her fiancé. A tip-top welcome to all you flash kiddies, game

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01:14:35

004: Ch. 8-9-10, Sweeney Todd

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

2025/01/26

IN WHICH Sweeney Todd is almost caught by a nest of highway robbers while running for it, after the lapidary he tried to fence the pearls to smelled a rat and shouted "stop thief"; the loathesome Pastor Lupin gets very drunk and tries to swindle his way to Johanna's sweet favors by working on her mother, but is taken down a peg by Mr. Oakley's cousin, a burly beefeater named Ben; and Colonel Jeffery tries to investigate Sweeney Todd's shop for evidence of his friend

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00:54:55

Ch. 5-7, Sweeney Todd

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

2025/01/18

IN WHICH Johanna learns sad news about her missing fiance, and Sweeney Todd makes an attempt to fence the pearls he stole from Mr. Thornhill after murdering him in Chapter 1 .

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00:54:10

Ch. 2-4, Sweeney Todd

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

2025/01/13

IN WHICH we are introduced to Johanna Oakley, our heroine, who pines for her fiance Mark Ingestrie, whom she believes to be lost at sea; and to Col. Jeffery, one of our heroes, and close friend of Thornhill, the sea-faring gentleman who Sweeney Todd "polished off" last week in Chapter 1. Thornhill's dog continues to bedevil Sweeney Todd. Then, in Chapter 4, we are introduced to Sarah Lovett, the comely widow who operates the most famous pie shop in London, in Bell Yard (street). We also get to

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00:28:13

Sweeney Todd, the Barber of Fleet-Street:...

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

2025/01/04

IN WHICH we are introduced to a new podcast (or, rather, a reorienting of an old one) that seeks to replicate the experience of a London street urchin listening to an older kid reading/performing the latest installments of the weekly "Penny Dreadful" story papers. We kick things off with the first chapter of Sweeney Todd, the Barber of Fleet-Street. Join us!

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00:06:03

Special message for listeners looking for Episode...

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

2025/01/02

A short explanation of this podcast, which has changed rather a lot in its first six months of life. After listening to this short briefing, you'll know......how to find Chapter 1 of your favorite Dreadful......why it's nothing but all Sweeney Todd, all the time, until about Episode 12......how I recommend approaching a quest to "catch up"......and a few other notes. The art for this episode is from Rose Mortimer; or, The Ballet-girl's Revenge (1866). That's Evil Moustache-Twirling Count Lerno

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00:37:54

Ch. 17 of VARNEY, THE VAMPYRE; or, THE FEAST OF...

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

2020/07/01

IN WHICH Flora and Charles are interrupted in their canoodling by the sudden appearance of THE VAMPYRE ... the next-door neighbor, Sir Francis Varney, who dropped by to view the mysterious portrait and to try again to buy Bannerworth Hall. (This is our first episode conducted remotely via Zoom, and a glitch in the audio forced us to use one of the monitor mixes, so the stereo effect isn't right ... we're working on it!)

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00:54:10

Ch. 15-16 of VARNEY, THE VAMPYRE; or, THE FEAST OF...

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

2020/04/02

IN WHICH we get to meet Old Admiral Bell and his faithful sailor-servant, Jack Pringle ... and more vampirey things happen to poor, hard-swooning, sharp-shooting Flora Bannerworth, and Henry's mom's boyfriend goes just a little overboard in trying to get rid of Flora's inconveniently-appearing boyfriend, Charles Holland ... meanwhile, Kris and Jenn and Finn make some equally bad decisions about which phrases are going to trigger the drinking bell.Chapter 15: THE OLD ADMIRAL AND HIS SERVANT ... THE

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01:13:38

Ch. 12-14 of VARNEY, THE VAMPYRE; or, THE FEAST OF...

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

2020/03/16

IN WHICH Jennifer, Kris and Finn carry on with their Amontillado-fueled impersonation of Joel, Tom and Crow through three more exquisitely Dreadful chapters of the second-most-famous Penny Dreadful of mid-Victorian England: James Malcolm Rymer's "Varney the Vampyre": Chapter 12: CHARLES HOLLAND’S SAD FEELINGS ... THE PORTRAIT ...THE OCCURRENCE OF THE NIGHT AT THE HALL .... Chapter 13: THE OFFER FOR THE HALL ... THE VISIT TO SIR FRANCIS VARNEY ... THE STRANGE RESEMBLANCE ... A DREADFUL SUGGESTION

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00:28:30

The Outsider, by H.P. Lovecraft: A GDT3K Minisode!

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

2020/03/09

IN WHICH your intrepid hosts give the full MST3K treatment to one of the most beloved of Lovecraft's early horror writings ...

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01:05:50

Ch. 8-11 of VARNEY, THE VAMPYRE; or, THE FEAST OF...

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

2020/03/01

It's like of Mystery Science Theater 3000 only with 2 fewer robots, 2 more humans, 1 less movie and 4 more chapters of an audiobook narration of the campiest, cheesiest bit of Tales-from-the-Crypt melodrama the Penny Dreadful era had to offer! A stereo podcast, with the story in your right ear and your hosts' sarcastic remarks in your left. Pour yourself a great goblet of aged amontillado from the cask in the cellar, put your headphones on, and join us! Chapter 8: THE COFFIN ... THE ABSENCE OF THE

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00:20:36

Four O'Clock, by Sonia Haft Greene/ H.P. Lovecraft: A...

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

2020/02/21

IN WHICH the single most overwrought, campy story associated with H.P. Lovecraft receives the MST3K treatment at the hands of your intrepid hosts. Sonia Haft Greene, the future wife of H.P. Lovecraft, wrote this story to poke friendly fun at her boyfriend, who was at the time going through a "high camp" phase in his artistic development (he had just finished "Herbert West, Reanimator"). You'll never hear the portentous chirp of a monstrous cricket the same way again! #Lovecraft #talesFromTheCrypt

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01:18:37

Ch. 5-7 of VARNEY, THE VAMPYRE; or, THE FEAST OF...

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

2020/02/15

IN WHICH your faithful hosts continue their "Mystery Science Theatre 3000" assault upon a campy, melodramatic audiobook reading of the next few chapters of this most famous of "Penny Dreadful" serial stories. Chapter 5: THE NIGHT WATCH ... THE PROPOSAL ... THE MOONLIGHT ... THE FEARFUL ADVENTURE .... Chapter 6: A GLANCE AT THE BANNERWORTH FAMILY ... THE PROBABLE CONSEQUENCES OF THE MYSTERIOUS APPARITION'S APPEARANCE .... Chapter 7: THE VISIT TO THE TOMB OF THE BANNERWORTHS, AND ITS UNPLEASANT RESULT

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00:50:22

The Horror in the Burying-Ground, by Hazel Heald/...

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

2020/02/08

IN WHICH your faithful hosts give the full MST3K treatment to one of the most delightfully campy bits of back-country horror-melodrama ever to flow from H.P. Lovecraft's pen. This was the last New England ghost story Lovecraft wrote for Hazel Heald, and it is, as Bertie Wooster would say, truly ripe stuff. We had fun with this one, and we hope you will too! #Lovecraft #talesFromTheCrypt #ghost #highCamp

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01:32:05

Ch. 1-4 of VARNEY, the VAMPYRE; or, THE FEAST OF...

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

2020/02/01

IN WHICH your faithful hosts annotate an audiobook reading of the first four chapters of the O.G. vampire story with wisecracks, irreverent observations, and sarcastic remarks, in the style made infamous by Joel Hodgson's ever-awesome "Mystery Science Theatre 3000." Join us, do! "How graves give up their dead, /And how the night air hideous grows /With shrieks!" —unattributed quotation at beginning of Chapter 1 Chapter 1: MIDNIGHT ... THE HAIL-STORM ... THE DREADFUL VISITOR ... THE VAMPYRE

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