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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 ... — 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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01:10:48

4.17: Lord Walter’s vampire-bride turns on his...

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

2025/12/21

Join host Corinthian Finn, a.k.a. Finn J.D. John 18th Baron Dunwitch,* for a one-hour-long spree through the scandal-sheets and story papers of old London!PART I: “The HALF-CROWN CAMPIES” segment: 0:00 — 32:00:01:20: VARNEY THE VAMPYRE; or, THE FEAST OF BLOOD, Chapter 31: We open the scene on Sir Francis Varney is in his home. He is awaiting a visitor, whom he dreads. We learn from his nervous mutterings that this visit occurs once a year, at which the visitor exacts a price which Varney must pay

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01:24:54

4.16: In the lion’s den with Sweeney Todd! — The...

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2025/12/18

This is our hour-long Ha'penny Horrid 'Hursday episode, the second of our two weekly shows. It comes in two parts, to-wit:PART I: "THE HA’PENNY HORRIDS," 0:00 — 44:30:01:00: DICKENS' DREADFUL ALMANAC for today: A dentist pounced upon and nearly choked to death by a gang of thieves.03:15: SWEENEY TODD, THE BARBER OF FLEET-STREET, Chapter 72-73: We look in on Arabella to see how she is handling her feelings of responsibility for Johanna’s recklessness. And the verdict is – not

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01:22:25

4.15: Locked in the vampire’s dungeon. — The...

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2025/12/14

This is our main one-hour Sunday-night episode. Including, after the break, the "Sixpenny Spookies" segment.PART I: “The HALF-CROWN CAMPIES” segment: 0:00 — 37:40:01:10: VARNEY THE VAMPYRE; or, THE FEAST OF BLOOD, Chapter 29-30: Now we cut to a new scene, in a ruined abbey near Bannerworth Hall, in a dungeon-cell beneath which there is a man locked up, battered and dazed and bearing the marks of a desperate struggle. He is not identified, but it seems nearly certain that it’s Charles

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01:21:41

4.14: The horrors in the vault beneath Sweeny Todd’s...

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2025/12/11

Join host Corinthian Finn, a.k.a. Finn J.D. John 18th Baron Dunwitch,* for a one-hour-long spree through the scandal-sheets and story papers of old London!This is our Ha'penny Horrid 'Hursday episode, the second of our two weekly shows. It comes in two parts, to-wit:PART I: "THE HA’PENNY HORRIDS," 0:00 — 45:30:01:00: DICKENS' DREADFUL ALMANAC for today: A priest is prosecuted for clobbering a parishioner with his umbrella after she converted to Protestantism (Dec. 11,

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01:15:51

4.13: Death took his beloved, but sorcery brought her...

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2025/12/06

Join host Corinthian Finn, a.k.a. Finn J.D. John 18th Baron Dunwitch,* for a one-hour-long spree through the scandal-sheets and story papers of old London!This is our main one-hour Sunday-night episode. Including, after the break, the "Sixpenny Spookies" segment. COMING OUT A DAY EARLY!PART I: “The HALF-CROWN CAMPIES” segment: 0:00 — 32:00:02:50: VARNEY THE VAMPYRE; or, THE FEAST OF BLOOD, Chapter 28: Henry, the admiral and Mr. Marchdale follow the trail the Admiral saw Charles Holland

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01:23:44

4.12: Exploring Sweeney Todd's murder-vault! — Yet...

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2025/12/04

Join host Corinthian Finn, a.k.a. Finn J.D. John 18th Baron Dunwitch,* for a one-hour-long spree through the scandal-sheets and story papers of old London!PART I: "THE HA’PENNY HORRIDS," 0:00 — 42:00:00:55: DICKENS' DREADFUL ALMANAC for today: The account of a murderous attack made on a landlord’s steward made 174 years ago today.03:00: SWEENEY TODD, THE BARBER OF FLEET-STREET, Chapter 68-69: Late that evening, at St. Dunstan’s Church, four gentlemen arrive and let themselves in with a

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01:14:10

4.11: A dead man comes to life! — The extirpation of...

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2025/11/30

Join host Corinthian Finn, a.k.a. Finn J.D. John 18th Baron Dunwitch,* for a one-hour-long spree through the scandal-sheets and story papers of old London!PART I: “The HALF-CROWN CAMPIES” segment: 0:00 — 35:00:01:05: VARNEY THE VAMPYRE; or, THE FEAST OF BLOOD, Chapter 27: Henry, the admiral and Mr. Marchdale present the three letters to Flora, anticipating she will be offended and angry with Charles for treating her so. Instead, they are surprised when she cries, “Where did you get these disgraceful

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01:21:56

4.10: The murdering body-snatchers of old Bethnal...

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2025/11/26

Join host Corinthian Finn, a.k.a. Finn J.D. John 18th Baron Dunwitch,* for a one-hour-long spree through the scandal-sheets and story papers of old London!This is our hour-long Ha'penny Horrid 'Hursday episode, the second of our two weekly shows. PART I: "THE HA’PENNY HORRIDS”: (Horrid, as in “horror”!)01:00: DICKENS' DREADFUL ALMANAC for today: An account of a 21-year-old man who stole jewels worth north of half a million modern pounds Sterling … and nearly got away with it! 04:03: SWEENEY TODD,

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01:18:55

4.09: The vampire is tracked to her coffin! — The...

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2025/11/23

Join host Corinthian Finn, a.k.a. Finn J.D. John 18th Baron Dunwitch,* for a one-hour-long spree through the scandal-sheets and story papers of old London!03:20: VARNEY THE VAMPYRE; or, THE FEAST OF BLOOD, Chapter 26: Henry, the admiral and Mr. Marchdale present the three letters to Flora, anticipating she will be offended and angry with Charles for treating her so. Instead, they are surprised when she cries, “Where did you get these disgraceful forgeries? What has happened to Charles? Has someone

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01:13:30

4.08: Blackmailing Sweeney Todd? — The highwaymen...

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

2025/11/20

Join host Corinthian Finn, a.k.a. Finn J.D. John 18th Baron Dunwitch,* for a one-hour-long spree through the scandal-sheets and story papers of old London!This is a one-hour Ha'penny Horrid 'Hursday episode! In two parts, to-wit:PART I: "THE HA’PENNY HORRIDS," 0:00 — 38:00:This first segment of the Thursday show contains a chapter of Sweeney Todd, along with the more darksome, loathly, and horrifying tidbits of the week: Tales of horrid murders, public executions, disasters, brutal

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01:09:36

4.07: The vampire victim's story is eerily familiar....

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2025/11/16

Join host Corinthian Finn, a.k.a. Finn J.D. John 18th Baron Dunwitch,* for a one-hour-long spree through the scandal-sheets and story papers of old London!This is our main one-hour Sunday-night episode. Including, after the break, the "Sixpenny Spookies" segment. The first segment of the Sunday show contains a chapter of Varney the Vampire, along with sundry other tidbits of early-Victorian street literature — INCLUDING ...01:06: VARNEY THE VAMPYRE; or, THE FEAST OF BLOOD, Chapter 25:

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01:09:23

4.06: Johanna's reckless plan to spy on Sweeney Todd!...

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2025/11/13

A one-hour Ha'penny Horrid 'Hursday episode! In two parts, the first grim and dark, the second salty and spicy; to-wit:PART I: "THE HA’PENNY HORRIDS," 0:00 — 34:50:This first segment of the Thursday show contains a chapter of Sweeney Todd, along with the more darksome, loathly, and horrifying tidbits of the week: Tales of horrid murders, public executions, disasters, brutal crimes, and similar rays of sunshine — INCLUDING ...01:40: DICKENS' DREADFUL ALMANAC for today: A tragic

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01:09:39

4.05: The ghost in the iron cage. — The vampyre's...

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2025/11/09

Our main one-hour Sunday-night episode! This first segment of the Sunday show contains a chapter of Varney the Vampire, along with what we think of as the more humourous, melodramatic, and high-campy tidbits from this week’s explorations of early-Victorian street literature — INCLUDING ...02:02: VARNEY THE VAMPYRE; or, THE FEAST OF BLOOD, Chapter 24: Admiral Bell, back from his meeting with Varney, confesses his plot to take the heat off Charles by usurping his role as duellist. Then a note comes

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01:14:23

4.04: The Child-flogger reaps what he sows. — The...

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2025/10/30

NOTE — for a glossary of "flash" terms used in this episode, see pennydread.com/discord. (Flash was the slang lingo used by the criminal underworld of the Regency and early Victorian period.)A one-hour Ha'penny Horrid 'Hursday episode! In two parts, to-wit:PART I: "THE HA’PENNY HORRIDS," 0:00 — 32:30:This first segment of the Thursday show contains a chapter of Sweeney Todd, along with the more darksome, loathly, and horrifying tidbits of the week: Tales of horrid

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01:02:44

4.03: Six dead husbands, one dark secret! —...

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2025/10/26

Our main one-hour Sunday-night episode! In two parts, to-wit:PART I: “The HALF-CROWN CAMPIES” segment: 0:00 — 32:00:This first segment of the Sunday show contains a chapter of Varney the Vampire, along with what we think of as the more humourous, melodramatic, and high-campy tidbits from this week’s explorations of early-Victorian street literature — INCLUDING ...01:37: VARNEY THE VAMPYRE; or, THE FEAST OF BLOOD, Chapter 23: Charles Holland consults with his uncle, the admiral. He has determined to

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01:07:57

4:02: The midnight burial at the crossroads. —...

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2025/10/23

A one-hour Ha'penny Horrid 'Hursday episode!PART I: "THE HORRIDS," 0:00 — 32:20:This first segment of the Thursday show contains a chapter of Sweeney Todd, along with all the more darksome and horrifying elements of the week — INCLUDING ...02:30: DICKENS' DREADFUL ALMANAC for today: We hear of the sentencing to a lenient rap of a woman who, thinking her first husband dead after he was transported to Australia and dropped contact, remarried, only to have the old bad penny come

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00:59:49

4.01: A portrait of the vampyre ... from 1698! — The...

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2025/10/19

Episode 1 of a new season! With new bed music and more ghost stories!03:55: VARNEY, THE VAMPYRE; OR, THE FEAST OF BLOOD (1845), Ch. 22; In which —Henry, Charles, Mr. Marchdale, and Admiral Bell sit down for a planning meeting to decide what to do about Varney and Bannerworth Hall. They have just about decided to sell or rent it to Varney, but the idea of doing so under duress sticks in everyone’s craw a bit. Then Charles asks Henry to hold off for three days so that he can undertake some sort of

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00:42:33

3.27: The ballet-girl saved from A Fate Worse than...

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2025/10/16

A half-hour- long (plus a bit) Ha'penny Horror 'Hursday minisode IN WHICH —0:02:15: THE BLACK BAND, Chapter 22:IN WHICH:— Ballet dancer Clara Melville, seeing Sir Frederick Beaumorris’s valet arriving with his traveling-things, is plunged into despair. Meanwhile, Sir Frederick is very pleased with himself, and looking forward to the conquest of breaking Clara’s spirit, right after dinner. He is on his way down to the table when who should make an unexpected appearance but Colonel Oscar

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00:33:09

3.26: Evil Count Lerno's gang thirsts for young...

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2025/10/14

A spicy (-ish) Tuesday Twopenny Torrid minisode IN WHICH —0:01:50: THE BALLET-GIRL'S REVENGE, Chapter 10, IN WHICH —:We cut back to poor Edgar DeVille, who is being marched at pistol-point by the count into an inner chamber at the house, surrounded by the bloodthirsty ruffians in his gang of coiners and counterfeiters. A trap door opens in the floor before him, disclosing a deep well, in which obviously his body is to be thrown. The gang members want him killed on the spot. Can he change their

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00:55:06

3.25: How the lovely Diana Arlington was ruined. —...

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2025/10/12

Episode 25 of Season Three! — A Sunday-evening full episode!01:00: AN IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT OR TWO.06:10: THE MYSTERIES OF LONDON (1843), Ch. 10; In which —We cut back to Mrs. Arlington’s pad. Richard Markham is a regular guest, and is well on his way to falling in love with her. Then one day, she realizes how deep his feelings have become and, warning him that she is unworthy of him, tells him her story — how she went from being a respectable girl, to a kept mistress… and who it was that seduced

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