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The Penny Dreadful Hour: A Feast of Early-Victorian Street Literature and Stories

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 ... — Spring-Heel"d Jack ... — mustache-twirling villains ... — virtuous ballet-girls ... —wicked gamblers ... ... and more! Spiced with naughty cock-and-hen-club songs, broadsheet

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All Episodes

00:37:54

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

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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: A Feast of Early-Victorian... ·

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: A Feast of Early-Victorian... ·

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: A Feast of Early-Victorian... ·

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: A Feast of Early-Victorian... ·

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: A Feast of Early-Victorian... ·

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: A Feast of Early-Victorian... ·

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: A Feast of Early-Victorian... ·

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...

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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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00:21:19

Introducing GDT3K, and our first "Penny Dreadful":...

The Penny Dreadful Hour: A Feast of Early-Victorian... ·

2020/01/16

IN WHICH we are introduced to Finn J.D. John, and to "Varney, the Vampyre; or, The Feast of Blood: A Romance," the first Penny Dreadful serial-gothic-horror story to receive the GDT3K treatment. Please, pour yourself a generous goblet of well-aged Amontillado and join us!

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