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The Penny Dreadful Hour; or, A Feast of Early-Victorian Street Literature and Stories (no AI)

The Penny Dreadful Hour; or, A Feast of Early-Victorian Street Literature and Stories (no AI)

著者： Finn J.D. John/ Pulp-Lit Productions
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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 old Regency "dad jokes." A fresh episode every Sunday and Thursday evening. Join us!Finn J.D. John/ Pulp-Lit Productions アート 文学史・文学批評
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  • 11. The “Reverend” hides his murdered wife in someone else’s coffin! — The murdering mitten-knitters get their virtue rewarded! — The notorious 1849 Liverpool Lodger murders. (The “Ha’penny Horrors.”)

    11. The “Reverend” hides his murdered wife in someone else’s coffin! — The murdering mitten-knitters get their virtue rewarded! — The notorious 1849 Liverpool Lodger murders. (The “Ha’penny Horrors.”)
    2026/07/20
    SHOW NOTES — for — EPISODE 11 (Season Six) 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 early-Victorian London! ———— This show cycles through four themes over a monthly cycle, one show per week. This is the SIXPENNY SPOOKIES theme show, featuring a Victorian ghostly shortstory, a chapter of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, and other ghostly tales. It will be followed by ...The “Twopenny Torrids” theme episode, coming next Sunday (the fourth Sunday of July);The “Sixpenny Spookies” theme episode, coming two Sundays hence (the first Sunday of August); and finally—The “Graanam Gothics” theme episode, coming on the second Sunday of August. ———— For COMPLETE SHOW NOTES, including art and links to resources, see ⁠⁠pennydread.com/discord.⁠⁠ ———— IN TODAY'S "HA’PENNY HORRORS" EPISODE:01:50: HANGED TODAY IN HISTORY (July 19): On this day, mitten-knitter Sarah Metyard and her daughter Sally were hanged for having murdered two young apprentices by mistreating and starving them to death. To read the Metyard murder story on Executedtoday.com, click here;For a MUCH more detailed and thoroughly sourced version from author C.M. Rosens, click here;Check out C.M. Rosen’s podcast, Eldritch Girl: Weird Gothic Stuff & Nonsense, here.09:40: SWEENEY TODD, THE BARBER OF FLEET-STREET, Chapters 109-111: The Rev. Mr. Lupin disposes of his murdered wife very neatly, if horribly, by stuffing her into one of the coffins in the vaults below his chapel, after stomping the skeleton down to make room for her. Then he turns his attention to Mrs. Oakley. Was she really in a drugged sleep all night, he wonders? If not, must he murder her too? 50:10: HORRID BROADSIDE: “Execution of John Gleeson Wilson at Kirkdale Gaol ...” (1849) Tells the story of the Liverpool Lodger, who took a room in a lady’s residence while her husband was away at sea, then at his earliest opportunity murdered everyone in the house and robbed the place. With additional details from Paul Slade of planetslade.com. For a much more detailed account of The Liverpool Lodger story on planetslade.com, click here;To hear Gerry Jones sing The Liverpool Lodger murder ballad, click here;To hear Meh-229 perform The Liverpool Lodger murder ballad, click here;To check out Gallows Ballads: Twenty Victorian Execution Songs and the True Crime Stories that Inspired Them, a 2024 book by Paul Slade, click here.1:09:05: GHOST POETRY: “The Giaour” by Lord Byron, Part 3 of 3 (continued from last week): Racked with grief and guilt, the Giaour enters a monastery and unburdens himself to the abbot.GLOSSARY OF EARLY-VICTORIAN SLANG USED IN THIS EPISODE:HOISTER MOTS: Shoplifterettes. HIGH SPICERS: Top-tier highwaymen. Think Claude DuVal, Dick Turpin, Tom King, etc.KNIGHTS OF THE BLADE: Swaggering companions who are boastful of their prowess and may also claim a military rank — Captain, Major, Colonel — that they don’t really have a right to. BRUSHER: Liquor glass.OLD TOM: High-quality gin.BOGGIES: Rascally fellows.BON VIVANTS: Spirited and jolly companions.SLIP COVER: Get away, or attempt to do so.GRABS: Law enforcement officers.TWIG: Figure something out, or become aware of a swindle.CORINTHIANS: Sporting men of rank and fashion.VIRTUE REWARDED: Arrested or prosecuted.HELL CATS: Dangerous ladies who frequent the “hells” (gambling dens).BLACKLEGS: Professional gamblers who cheat to win.SPICE ISLANDERS: Swindlers. A double pun: Mace is a spice; a mace-man is a swindler; so a Spice Islander is, as it were, a resident of Swindle Island.SPEELING-CRIB: A “hell” (gambling den).COVENT GARDEN: London neighbourhood that was, in the Regency and early Victorian, famous as a place where bloods, bucks and choice spirits went to sport their blunt. Upscale gambling hells and brothels were conveniently close by the Royal Opera and Drury-lane Theatre.
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  • 10. Breakfast with Varney the Vampyre goes about as well as you might expect. — A baronet caught SHOPLIFTING? — Introducing Old Mobb, the cross-dressing highwayman-poet! (The “Graanum Gothics”)

    10. Breakfast with Varney the Vampyre goes about as well as you might expect. — A baronet caught SHOPLIFTING? — Introducing Old Mobb, the cross-dressing highwayman-poet! (The “Graanum Gothics”)
    2026/07/13

    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 early-Victorian London!

    For COMPLETE SHOW NOTES, including art and links to resources, see ⁠⁠pennydread.com/discord.⁠⁠

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    IN TODAY'S "GRAANUM GOTHICS" EPISODE:

    • 01:55: ON THIS DREADFUL DAY (JULY 12, 1850): A Lonon blacksmith was convicted for trying to murder his wife by defenestrating her through a second-floor window. Also On This Dreadful Day — July 12, 1722 — a baronet named Sir Charles Burton was arrested for shoplifting!
    • 05:05: VARNEY THE VAMPYRE; or, THE FEAST OF BLOOD, Chapter 60-61: Over Dr. Chillingworth’s objections, the admiral accepts the invitation to breakfast. Sir Francis receives them with apparent civility, but provokes the admiral with the coolest and most mildly delivered insults until he gets their goats, proposes a duel in a darkened room with scythes, and then, once he’s gotten the admiral to lean on the table, pulls the catch to dump him onto the floor with the tea-tray on top of him, and skips out in the ensuing confusion. Then a mysterious stranger arrives, asking for Sir Francis; when he sees Dr. Chillingworth, there is a horrified mutual recognition. What guilty secret does Dr. C share with this strange man?
    • 45:25: CATCHPENNY BROADSIDE: A snappy, flashy bit of poetry in praise and defence of the old Newgate Prison, which was being threatened with demolition.
    • 50:10: THE LIVES OF THE HIGHWAYMEN: Finishing off the story of the exploits of Old Mobb, the audacious cross-dressing highwayman-poet who, legend says, wore a dress for his hanging. Also — did convicted murderess Sarah Malcolm take the rap for her three guilty co-conspirators? Let’s examine the historical record, shall we?
    • 1:05:10: THE GIAOUR by LORD BYRON, PART 2 OF 3: The portion of this long poem devoted to the curses of Prince Hassan’s followers upon the Giaour, who has slain him to avenge his murder of the Giaour’s lover.
    • 1:11:25: A FEW SQUEAKY-CLEAN DAD JOKES from the early-1800s' most popular joke book: "Joe Miller's Jests; or, The Wit's Vade-mecum."

    GLOSSARY OF EARLY-VICTORIAN SLANG USED IN THIS EPISODE:

    • RUM CULLS: (from intro patter) Bartender.
    • OVERSEERS (ibid): Persons in the pillory, “overseeing” a crowd. A pun on Overseers of the Poor, the parish officials in charge of distributing charity.
    • KNIGHTS OF THE BRUSH AND MOON (ibid): Drunken fellows wandering amok in meadows and ditches, trying to stagger home.
    • CORINTHIAN (ibid): A fancy toff or titled swell. Used here as a reference to Corinthian Tom, the quintessential Regency rake depicted in Pierce Egan's "Life in London" (usually referred to as "Tom and Jerry").
    • CHAFFING-CRIB (ibid): A room where drinking and bantering are going on.
    • GRUNTER (ibid): A shilling. Probably a witty reference to another slang word for a shilling, “hog.”
    • FLATS (ibid): Suckers.
    • TARTARS (ibid): Spicy old ladies.
    • SNICKER (ibid): A drinking glass.
    • BLUE RUIN (ibid): Gin.
    • HOISTER (from On This Dreadful Day): Pickpocket.
    • COLLEGE (from broadside ballad): Prison.
    • THROW THE HATCHET (ibid): Tell a long, highly unlikely story.
    • PIKE OFF (from outro patter): Run away.
    • RED WAISTCOAT (ibid): The traditional uniform of the Bow-Street Runners, London’s first real professional police force.
    • GAMMONERS (ibid): Swindlers or gamblers who cheat.
    • ROMONERS (ibid): Fake occultists and fortune tellers.
    • SHARPS (ibid): Swindlers.
    • OLD ST. GILES (ibid): The neighbourhood of St. Giles in the Fields parish, which in the early Victorian age was a notorious slum.
    • RUM TE TUM WITH THE CHILL OFF (ibid): The very best.
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  • 9. The three vampire-maidens: Was it really a dream? — The ghost of Chesney Wold. — A dead man who came back … from Hell! — Lord Byron’s “The Giaour.” (The “Sixpenny Spookies.”)

    9. The three vampire-maidens: Was it really a dream? — The ghost of Chesney Wold. — A dead man who came back … from Hell! — Lord Byron’s “The Giaour.” (The “Sixpenny Spookies.”)
    2026/07/05
    SHOW NOTES — for — EPISODE 9 (Season Six)(July 5, 2026) ———— This show cycles through four themes over a month-long cycle, one show per week. As today is the first Sunday of the month, this is a Sixpenny Spookies show, featuring a Victorian ghostly shortstory, a chapter of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, and other ghostly tales. It will be followed by ...The “Graanam Gothics” theme episode, the second Sunday of the month;The “Ha’penny Horrors” theme episode, the third Sunday; and finally—The “Twopenny Torrids” theme episode, the fourth Sunday. ———— For COMPLETE SHOW NOTES, including art and links to resources, see ⁠⁠pennydread.com/discord.⁠⁠ ———— IN TODAY'S "SIXPENNY SPOOKIES" EPISODE:01:30: HAUNTED ENGLAND: The ghostly Briton chieftain rumoured to haunt Knocking Knoll, near Pegsdon; and the unhappy ghosts of the church of St. Michael’s in Millbrook.07:15: VICTORIAN GHOSTLY SHORT STORY, to-wit: THE DRUNKARD’S DREAM, by J.S. LE FANU (1838): Rural Irish priest Father Purcell is called to the home of a notorious local drunken ne’er-do-well. His bad habits have caught up with him at last, and he is dying. The Rev arrives a little too late, and leads the sobbing family in a ten-minute prayer; when they finish, the corpse is sitting upright. He has come back to life! —But, while dead, he dreamed he was sent to Hell. And while there, Satan told him he might return to Earth for a season, but only if he promised to return. The drunkard, desperate to get away, promised; and then he woke up. — He’s seen the light. He will mend his evil ways. But is he now irrevocably pledged to Satan and damned no matter what he does?36:25: GHOSTLY POETRY, to-wit: THE GIAOUR, by LORD BYRON (1813), Part 1 of 3 parts. The cover art for this episode illustrates the combat between the Giaour and Hassan; it’s by Eugene F.V. Delacroix, painted in 1826.55:00: DRACULA, by BRAM STOKER (1897), Chapter 3: Jonathan Harker fights down panic following his discovery that he is effectively a prisoner in the castle. He also discovers that there are no servants; the count is setting the table, making the bed, himself. Is he also driving the coach himself? Was that the count, in disguise, that night? — Later, in evening talks with the count, Harker gets an earful about the glorious martial past of the Draculas, and funny thing, it almost sounds like the count is describing these centuries-old battles as an eyewitness to them! — Then the count asks Harker to write home and tell his boss, and Mina, that he’s been asked to stay an extra month….1:27:15: LORD HALIFAX’S GHOST BOOK: The Ghostly Footsteps at Haverholme Priory, witnessed by Rev. Mr. H.W. Hill. Haverholme Priory, by the way, is also known as Chesney Wold, from Charles Dickens’ Bleak House.GLOSSARY OF EARLY-VICTORIAN SLANG USED IN THIS EPISODE:HIGH FLYER: An audacious, impudent woman.JET AUTEMS: Parsons.KNIGHTS OF THE BRUSH AND MOON: Drunken fellows running amok in fields and ditches late at night, trying to stagger home. RED TAPE: Brandy.WHITE TAPE: Gin.BITE YOUR NAME IN IT: Take a big drink.PRATE ROASTS: Garrulous, talkative fellows.PINKS OF FASHION: Fancy people.SHERRY OFF: Run away. FLATS: Suckers. GET FLY TO THE FAKEMENT: Get wise to the swindle. BOLT THE MOON: Fly by night.MOABITES: Bailiffs. PHILISTIES: Also means bailiffs.CRAPING COVES: Hangmen. YE OLD STONE PITCHER: Newgate Prison. PADDINGTON FAIR: Execution day at Tyburn, which is in Paddington Parish. Paddington is also a pun, as “pad” was a flash word for “thief” or “robber.” BRUSH OFF: Leave. Note this phrase means something slightly different today. Thank you for your support! Please, if you have a moment, rate us on your podcatcher network. If you’d like to do more, we do have a Patreon page; it’s here: https://patreon.com/pennydread
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