3.15: "Mad" Lady Edith at MacLomond Castle.— A burglar caught by a cat.— Death on the Manchester Railway. (A Ha'penny Horrors Half-hour minisode)

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

Finn J.D. John/ Pulp-Lit Productions

80 episodes

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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 ... — Spring-Heel'd Jack ... — 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." Join us!

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3.15: "Mad" Lady Edith at MacLomond Castle.— A burglar caught by a cat.— Death on the Manchester Railway. (A Ha'penny Horrors Half-hour minisode)

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

42 minutes 38 seconds

1 month ago

3.15: "Mad" Lady Edith at MacLomond Castle.— A burglar caught by a cat.— Death on the Manchester Railway. (A Ha'penny Horrors Half-hour minisode)

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 mad for real, except for one thing — at one of the railroad stations along the way, someone sent her a telegram containing the single word “hope.” Who could have sent it? And why?

Join host Finn J.D. John. for a half-hour-long spree through the darkest and loathliest stories seen on the streets of early-Victorian London! Grab a flicker of blue ruin, switch off your mirror neurons, and let's go!

GLOSSARY OF FLASH TERMS USED IN THIS EPISODE:

BULLY ROCKS: Thugs at the service of a brothel madam.
COLLEGIATES: Penitentiary prisoners.
KNIGHTS OF THE BRUSH AND MOON: Drunken fellows wandering amok in meadows and ditches, trying to stagger home.
FLATS: Innocent, not-too-smart persons who are duped by "sharps." In other words, suckers.
BUMS: Bailiffs.
CRAPPING COVES: Pronounced "crêpe-ing," it means hangmen, who cause the widows of the criminals they execute to wear crêpe in mourning.
THE OLD STONE JUG: Newgate Prison, or prisons in general.
PADDINGTON FAIR: Execution day at Tyburn Tree gallows, which was located in Paddington parish.