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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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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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00:34:10

3.24: Sir Richard learns to his horror what's in Mrs....

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2025/10/10

A half-hour- long (plus a bit) Ha'penny Horror 'Hursday minisode IN WHICH —0:02:05: SWEENEY TODD, THE BARBER OF FLEET-STREET, Chapter 59:IN WHICH:— We return to the scene of Sir Richard Blunt in Mrs. Lovett’s pie shop. Once Mrs. Lovett has gone to bed, he slips down the stairs on which he followed her to see if he can learn anything more about the voice that answered her from the room below. He arrives just in time to stop the captive cook from doing something very rash … and is then

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00:37:29

3.23: Highwaymen Dick Turpin and Tom King at the...

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2025/10/07

A spicy (-ish) Tuesday Twopenny Torrid minisode IN WHICH —0:01:50: BLACK BESS (starring Highwayman Dick Turpin), IN WHICH —:CHAPTER 23: Turpin and King arrive at the Hand and Keys Inn as the sun is coming up — just in time — and wake up the ostler to get their horses stabled and cared for. Tom Davis sets out a big breakfast for them. And Dick once again sets to thinking … how is he going to get Black Bess back?CHAPTER 24: We learn that the inquest is to be held on the old steward’s son, who shot

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00:55:33

3.22: The aftermath of the dreadful vampyre's visit!...

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2025/10/05

Episode 22 of Season Three! — A Sunday-evening full episode!02:00: VARNEY THE VAMPYRE (1844), Ch. 21. In which —Admiral Bell is absolutely convinced, in spite of himself, and enthusiastically proclaims himself Team Flora. Then a scream rings out. The vampire has visited once again! They run for Flora’s room. Will she be OK? And can they catch the hideous vampire before he makes his escape from the house?21:40: LET'S BASE HIRING DECISIONS ON PHRENOLOGY! (Satirical article from Punch

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00:36:29

3.21: Kidnapped and spirited away to a distant...

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2025/10/02

A half-hour- long (plus a bit) Ha'penny Horror 'Hursday minisode IN WHICH —0:02:00: THE BLACK BAND; OR, THE COMPANIONS OF MIDNIGHT, Chapter 21:IN WHICH:— We return to Clara Melville at the theatre. Reginald Faulkner has been wooing her for some time now, sending flowers every night, and eventually sending her a packet of books. We know a formalization of their relationship cannot be far distant … but then one day, as she is walking home, she is forcibly scooped up by a pair of rough-looking

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00:33:22

3.20: The ballet-girl's daring attempt to escape from...

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2025/09/30

A spicy (-ish) Tuesday Twopenny Torrid minisode IN WHICH —0:01:52: THE BALLET-GIRL'S REVENGE, IN WHICH —:CHAPTER 9: Rose learns her captors are working for Count Lerno. Then she sees her chance and bolts for the door, with the young man in hot pursuit. But she takes a wrong turn! The only escape is over the roof … can she make it? Or will she end up in a shattered, lifeless heap in the street fifty feet below?0:22:45: BROADSIDE STREET BALLAD:"The Cruel Stepmother," which we visit

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01:04:20

3.19: A vampire named Carmilla. — How "Walter Sydney"...

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2025/09/28

Episode 19 of Season Three! — A Sunday-evening full episode!01:55: THE MYSTERIES OF LONDON (1844). In which —We learn the story of “Walter Sydney’s” deliverance from the filthy fate meant for him in the Fleet River, four years before. Along the way, we start getting hints that “Mr. Montague” knows more about the adventure than he would care to disclose … how deeply involved is he with Sir Rupert Harbrough, Diana Arlington, and Richard Markham? He visibly reacts when their names come up. Could this

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00:32:06

3.18: Is Tobias finally safe from Sweeney Todd? Um,...

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2025/09/25

A half-hour- long (plus a bit) Ha'penny Horror 'Hursday minisode IN WHICH —0:01:57: SWEENEY TODD, THE BARBER OF FLEET-STREET, Chapter 58:IN WHICH:— Tobias is better, and talks a little about his experience at the shop to Minna and Colonel Jeffrey. But he can’t shake the dread that “when I least expect it, round the curtains of my bed, or from behind some chair, or from some cupboard about twilight, I shall not see the hideous face of Sweeney Todd?” Colonel Jeffrey assures him such a thing is quite

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00:38:28

3.17: Another highwayman, Tom King, tries to rob Dick...

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2025/09/23

A spicy (-ish) Tuesday Twopenny Torrid minisode IN WHICH —0:01:45: BLACK BESS (featuring Highwayman Dick Turpin), IN WHICH —:CHAPTER 21: Dick Turpin, set free by the mob, shares every guinea in his purse with the mob. Now flat broke, he decides to rob the western coach to replenish his resources. He knows just the spot to do the job in, a dark thickly-wooded hollow called Deadman’s Hollow, and repairs thither just ahead of the coach. But as he approaches it, to take up his position for the ambush, a

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01:04:11

3.16: Sir Francis Varney's second visit to poor...

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2025/09/21

Episode 16 of Season Three! — A Sunday-evening full episode (released a few hours early) IN WHICH —02:45: VARNEY THE VAMPYRE, Ch. 20:In which: Pop quiz, hotshot: What two words should you NEVER say when you know there is a vampire in the neighborhood, and someone knocks on your bedroom door? Even if you think it’s your brother or fiancé? You know the answer. The legend is, they can only cross the threshold if someone invites them, right? So — the words to never say are, “Come in!” Guess someone

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00:42:38

3.15: "Mad" Lady Edith at MacLomond Castle.— A...

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2025/09/18

A half-hour- long (plus a bit) Ha'penny Horror 'Hursday minisode IN WHICH —0:02:48: THE BLACK BAND; OR, THE COMPANIONS OF MIDNIGHT; IN WHICH —:The scene cuts back to Lady Edith Merton, now a prisoner in her boudoir and guarded by a trio of burly madhouse matrons. Then she is awakened in the middle of the night for a secret journey to MacLomond Castle, which is to be her own private asylum in Scotland. It’s a damp, gloomy place with watchtowers and a moat. Such surroundings might drive her

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00:29:08

3.14: The curiosity of young Edgar DeVille (Cruella's...

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2025/09/16

A "spicy" (-ish) Tuesday Twopenny Torrid minisode IN WHICH —0:01:45: ROSE MORTIMER; or, THE BALLET-GIRL'S REVENGE, Ch. 8, IN WHICH —:We return to the estate of Count Lerno. The Count has invited a young man named Edgar Deville to his estate for a week’s debauchery; then he has to run to town for a few days, leaving Edgar at the house. Make yourself at home, the Count tells him; but, do not enter the blocked-off portion of the house. Do you think young Edgar will be able to resist the

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01:03:32

3.13: The Mysterious Mr. Montague. — The Vampyre...

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2025/09/14

Episode 13 of Season Three! — A Sunday-evening full episode (released a few hours early) IN WHICH —01:50: MYSTERIES OF LONDON, Ch. 8:In which: “Mr. Walter Sydney”’s real name is, we learn, Eliza. She comes to her meeting with Mr. Stephens hoping for more information about what his plans are. She is worried that maybe her powers are being used for some kind of evil … well … are they?19:20: TERRIFIC REGISTER ARTICLE:Lady Beresford's childhood friend, Lord Tyrone, appeared at her bedside one night

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00:34:49

3.12: Mrs. Lovett has a big mouth when she...

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2025/09/11

A half-hour- long 'Hursday Horrors Minisode IN WHICH —0:02:11: SWEENEY TODD, THE BARBER OF FLEET-STREET, Ch. 57; IN WHICH —:Sir Richard is continuing his exploration of Mrs. Lovett’s pie shop. Suddenly he’s startled by the appearance of Mrs. Lovett herself — in her nightgown — with a candle in her hand, but with her eyes shut tight. She’s sleepwalking! Will she wake up and notice the intruder? Will he hear the secrets that she keeps, while she’s talking in her sleep? We shall see. 0:25:15:

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