『3.22: The aftermath of the dreadful vampyre's visit! — A face from a sinister childhood dream ... or was it? — What the bumps on your head say about YOU.』のカバーアート

3.22: The aftermath of the dreadful vampyre's visit! — A face from a sinister childhood dream ... or was it? — What the bumps on your head say about YOU.

3.22: The aftermath of the dreadful vampyre's visit! — A face from a sinister childhood dream ... or was it? — What the bumps on your head say about YOU.

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 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 Magazine):Written just about the time the average person was starting to realize "head-bump-ology" was a pseudoscientific joke, this comedic article suggests some ways phrenological insights could be used to make sure public servants are well suited to their jobs.27:00: CARMILLA, by J.S. Le Fanu (1871), Part 2 of 9. IN WHICH:—Laura cannot wait to meet the new friend whom fortune has thrown upon her household. The servants are charmed by her, and speak very warmly of her; but the are a little freaked out by the glimpses they had of the other members of her traveling party. Finally the doctor comes and looks the new girl over and pronounces her fit to receive company. Laura needs no second invitation, but races upstairs at once, and finds — the girl from her dream, twelve years before!PLUS —We explore a "broadside ballad" published circa 1835 called "The Prigging Overseers," celebrating the arrest and imprisonment of the Overseer of the Poor at St. Pancras' Parish for stealing from the collections.We learn a few more Victorian "dad jokes" from good old Joe Miller!EPISODE ART is cover art for an episode of The Phrenological Journal and Science of Health, published circa 1840.GLOSSARY OF FLASH TERMS USED IN THIS EPISODE:WOODPECKERS: Punster, joker, or word-play artist.RUM BOGGIES: Good sports.KNIGHTS OF THE BRUSH AND MOON: Drunken fellows wandering amok by moonlight in fields and ditches, trying to stagger home.CHAFFING-CRIB: A room where drinking and bantering are going on.BUMPER: A glass of liquor filled to the absolute brim. Often used in the context of draining one's entire glass in a toast, leaving no dregs ("no heel taps").RED TAPE: Brandy.BADGE COVES: Parish pensioners who were issued a badge that gave them license to supplement their pensions by begging.LAMBSKIN MEN: Judges.PRIGGING: Stealing.CRINOLINE: A steel-cage-reinforced hoop skirt worn by ladies, or slang reference to a gaol cell.PICKING OAKUM: Work given to prisoners, a tedious unraveling of the fibers of old worn-out ropes to make oakum for chinking ships' hulls.BLACKSMITH'S DAUGHTER: Fetters or manacles.JOE MILLER: A famous Shakespearean player from the 1700s who was famous for being a stone-face deadpan actor. As an inside joke, his name was used for the collection of wisecracks that bears his name.VADE MECUM: Latin for "hand book."RED WAISTCOAT: Uniform apparel of the Bow-street Runners, an early London police force replaced by the New Model Police (who dressed in blue rather than red) in 1839.GAMMONERS: Swindlers or bullshitters.ROMONERS: Gammoners who pretend to have occult powers.OLD ST. GILES: The most famous slum parish of London, also called "The Holy Land"DUNWICH, Town Of (spelled with no "T"): A seacoast town east of London, once very large, which eroded away and fell into the sea; only a few streets and houses remainDUNWITCH, Barony Of (note the "T"): A small estate in the hills West of Arkham, according to Colonial chronicler H.P. Lovecraft. Does not actually exist, but if it did, would be headed by Finn J.D. John, 18th Baron Dunwitch.DUNSANY, Barony Of: A large estate in Ireland, including Dunsany Castle in County Meath, headed until 1957 by legendary fantasy author Edward J.M.D. Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany, one of Mr. Lovecraft's favorite authors.RUM TE TUM WITH THE CHILL OFF: Most emphatically excellent.
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