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. It comes in two parts, to-wit:

PART I: "THE HA’PENNY HORRIDS," 0:00 — 37:30:

• 01:10: DICKENS' DREADFUL ALMANAC for today: A Horrid (but mercifully short) account of a London coachman who received a particularly unpleasant, and fatal, Christmas present from his cher-amie...
• 02:50: SWEENEY TODD, THE BARBER OF FLEET-STREET, Chapter 74-75: Left alone in the shop, Johanna does a little light snooping. The parlour door she finds locked, of course. In a cupboard she finds a great assortment of sticks and umbrellas, along with a very fine sailor’s jacket, with what looks like a bloodstain around the breast. She nearly gets lost in maudlin lamentations over it, thinking it might be Mark’s. Then someone tries to enter the shop. She opens the door. It’s a messenger boy. He gives her a letter. …
• 30:40: EXECUTION-DAY BROADSIDE: The Trial and Execution of MARTIN CLINCH & SAMUEL MACKLEY, for the Wicked Murder of Mr. Fryer, in Islington Fields, in 1797..
• 34:45: TERRIFIC REGISTER ARTICLE: Another story of a woman unsuccessfully hanged for stealing from a housemate, who had framed her for it after she refused to sleep with him … who woke up on the dissecting table. In this case, the surgeon did not re-murder her, though!

PART II: "THE TWOPENNY TORRIDS," 38:00 — 1:15:00:

• 38:40: BLACK BESS; or, THE KNIGHT OF THE ROAD (starring HIGHWAYMAN DICK TURPIN), Chapter 41-42: The highwaymen watch as the miser’s murderer makes his appearance. It turns out to be a servant of the miser who had earlier stolen his gold, but now, overhearing his master’s curses and pledge to hunt down and kill whoever stole his gold, decided he’d rather have a murder on his conscience than a Nemesis on his track, and let the old man have it right in the chest. Outraged, Turpin and King pounce upon him. Dick makes a noose, and they fit it under his armpits and hang him up under a tree for someone to find, and they head off back toward their horses. Then, abruptly, the murderer’s screams stop, as if silenced by the hand of death … what could have happened?
• 1:01:20: A STREET-LIT STORY from an 1830s “broadside”: "The Female Sleep-walker,” a “catchpenny” story with a subtly sexual subtext.
• 1:07:50: A RATHER NAUGHTY COCK-AND-HEN-CLUB SONG: "The Frisky Country Lass,” which is one of those songs in which you figure out the dirty words by seeing what they rhyme with.
• 1:11:55: A FEW MILDLY DIRTY JOKES from what passed in 1830 for a dirty joke book: "The Joke-Cracker."

*The Barony of Dunwitch is located in a wood west of Arkham (where, as H.P. Lovecraft put it, “the hills rise wild, and there are valleys with deep woods that no axe has ever cut; there are dark narrow glens where the trees slope fantastically, and where thin brooklets trickle without ever having caught the glint of sunlight.”) Actually it is a good 3,000 miles west of Arkham. It is not to be confused with Dunwich, the English seacoast town that fell house by house into the sea centuries ago, or Dunsany, the home until 1957 of legendary fantasy author Edward J.M.D. Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany.

GLOSSARY OF FLASH TERMS USED IN THIS EPISODE:

• CAPTAIN LUSHINGTON: One who has alcoholically overindulged.
• OUT-AND-OUTER: A tip-topper or first-rater.
• KNIGHTS OF THE BRUSH AND MOON: Drunken fellows wandering amok in meadows and ditches, trying to stagger home.
• BLUNT: Money, with the implication that there is a large amount of it.
• BOLT THE MOON: Fly by night.
• MOABITES: Bailiffs.
• PHILISTINES: Another word for Moabites.
• NUBBING COVES: Hangmen.

There are more! But we’re out of space here. A full glossary of all the flash-cant terms used in this episode is at ⁠https://pennydread.com/discord⁠ in the "#season-4-episodes" thread.

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 “for that existence, which but for him had been long since terminated.” Who can this visitor be, who fills the fearsome and dreadful Varney the Vampyre with such terror and loathing?
• 26:02: BROADSIDE BALLAD: A jocose street song about a silly prophecy that London would be hit with a tremendous earthquake.
• 30:15: TERRIFIC REGISTER ARTICLE: The story of a noble lion who, after running amok in Venice, treated a dropped baby with great care.

PART II: "THE SIXPENNY SPOOKIES," 32:45 — 1:09:45:

• 33:00: EARLY VICTORIAN GHOSTLY SHORT STORY, TO-WIT: Wake Not the Dead, by Ernst Raupach, Part 3 of 4: In which:: Walter’s castle daily grows more empty and desolate, as everyone with children takes them away to save them from the vampire’s curse. All that remains are old people, whose tired blood Brunhilda considers unsuitable; and, of course, Walter’s two children. Walter, enthralled by her spell, doesn’t even notice. Brunhilda is like a magic sex robot — loving and passionate with him, cold and distant to everything else, but fueled by young blood, which she obtains by making herself charming to her victim before lulling him or her to sleep and draining from his or her young bosom the purple tide of life. She now sets out to charm and slake herself with Walter’s children….
• 54:00: A SHORT GHOST STORY from the scrapbook of Charles Lindley, Viscount Halifax: The story of a traveler who, murdered for the cash with which he was traveling, appeared in ghost form the following week to bring his murderer to justice.
• 1:00:30: A BONUS GHOST STORY from the Terrific Register (1825): A legend of a ghostly character that appeared to Napoleon Bonaparte and foretold his fall.
• 1:07:45: A FEW SQUEAKY-CLEAN DAD JOKES from the early-1800s' most popular joke book: "Joe Miller's Jests; or, The Wit's Vade-mecum."

*The Barony of Dunwitch is located in a deep forest glade west of Arkham (where, as H.P. Lovecraft put it, “the hills rise wild, and there are valleys with deep woods that no axe has ever cut; there are dark narrow glens where the trees slope fantastically, and where thin brooklets trickle without ever having caught the glint of sunlight.”) Actually it is a good 3,000 miles west of Arkham. It is not to be confused with Dunwich, the English seacoast town that fell house by house into the sea centuries ago, or Dunsany, the home until 1957 of legendary fantasy author Edward J.M.D. Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany.

GLOSSARY OF FLASH TERMS USED IN THIS EPISODE:

• NATTY LADS: Young well-dressed pickpockets.
• LIVELY KIDDIES: Funny fellows.
• KNIGHTS OF THE BRUSH AND MOON: Drunken fellows wandering amok in meadows and ditches, trying to stagger home.
• CORINTHIAN: 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: A room where drinking and bantering are going on.
• CLANKERS: Pewter drinking pots.
• ENGLISH BURGUNDY: Strong ale or barleywine.
• AUTEM BAWLERS: Preachers.
• BABES OF GRACE: Puritanical sanctimonious-looking persons, especially if they are drunk. Think of Mr. Lupin from Sweeney Todd.
• VADE MECUM: Latin for "hand book."

There are more! But we’re out of space here. A full glossary of all the flash-cant terms used in this episode is at ⁠https://pennydread.com/discord⁠ in the "#season-4-episodes" thread.

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 well. She can’t figure out what to do. She can’t leave her there, for she’ll get killed; she can’t tell Mr. Oakley; or talk to her friends. What to do? She decides — surprisingly, for her decisionmaking so far has been pretty bad — to do something really very smart and sensible: Lay the whole mess out before Sir Richard Blunt. Meanwhile, Johanna is getting the full import of what it is to be Sweeney Todd’s apprentice boy … how is she holding up? Better than you might have expected! But will it be good enough? We shall see …
• 33:30: CRIME BROADSIDE: The final hours of six petty criminals sacrificed to the brutal bloodlust of a barbaric age in Britain.
• 42:00: TERRIFIC REGISTER ARTICLE: A man who murdered his wife for insurance money faced his execution with total sang-froid.

PART II: "THE TWOPENNY TORRIDS," 00:00 — 00:00:

• 45:15: BLACK BESS; or, THE KNIGHT OF THE ROAD (starring HIGHWAYMAN DICK TURPIN), Chapter 40: Dick Turpin and Tom King press on into the New Forest, hoping to find a place of refuge for the night. Just as they are about to give up and settle in for an uncomfortable night under a tree, King spots a light, deep in the forest. The highwaymen follow the light, hoping it will lead to a warm place to rest … instead, it leads them to a dark, silent hollow, at the bottom of which they see a gaunt figure, digging what looks like a shallow grave ….
• 1:08:30: SOME STREET POETRY from an 1830s “broadside”: "The Bloody Gardener’s Lament.”
• 1:15:45: A RATHER NAUGHTY COCK-AND-HEN-CLUB SONG: "Pity the Sorrows of a Poor Old Mot” (about a prostitute contemplating the approach of retirement age)
• 1:21:30: A FEW MILDLY DIRTY JOKES from what passed in 1830 for a dirty joke book: "The Joke-Cracker."

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, every Sunday and Thursday evening at 5:37 p.m. London time!

* The Barony of Dunwitch is located in a wood west of Arkham (where, as H.P. Lovecraft put it, “the hills rise wild, and there are valleys with deep woods that no axe has ever cut; there are dark narrow glens where the trees slope fantastically, and where thin brooklets trickle without ever having caught the glint of sunlight.”) Actually it is a good 3,000 miles west of Arkham. It is not to be confused with Dunwich, the English seacoast town that fell house by house into the sea centuries ago, or Dunsany, the home until 1957 of legendary fantasy author Edward J.M.D. Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany.

GLOSSARY OF FLASH TERMS USED IN THIS EPISODE:

• GAMMONERS: Gamesters, gamblers, or confidence men.
• HIGH FLYERS: Tip-toppers, first-raters.
• KNIGHTS OF THE BRUSH AND MOON: Drunken fellows wandering amok in meadows and ditches, trying to stagger home.
• CORINTHIAN: 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: A room where drinking and bantering are going on.
• MOT: Whore or lady of easy virtue.
• PAD IT: In context of today’s bawdy song, to walk the street soliciting for a “john.”
• TOGGERY: Clothing.
• COUTER: A sovereign — a coin worth £1.
• KID: In the context of today’s bawdy song, a lover or playmate.

There are more! But we’re out of space here. A full glossary of all the flash-cant terms used in this episode is at ⁠https://pennydread.com/discord⁠ in the "#season-4-episodes" thread.

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 Holland. His two captors have come to his cell with a scroll and a pen, and they’re trying to get him to sign the scroll, but he’s still too dazed and concussed to do it. They give up for the time being and leave. — So … what’s the scroll? Who are the two captors? And is this Charles, imprisoned in the cell?
• (Here is a link to London pop historian Jenny Draper’s 40-minute YouTube video on the Dissolution of the Monasteries)
• 30:20: BROADSIDE BALLAD: Another fictional cautionary tale for young Victorian women, warning them not to patronize fortune-tellers, or THIS could happen to YOU!
• 34:10: TERRIFIC REGISTER ARTICLE: What do you do when your doppleganger turns out to have committed a capital crime? If you’re smart, and you live in pre-Victorian Britain under the “bloody code,” you run. If you’re not smart, well, you do what this guy did ...

PART II: "THE SIXPENNY SPOOKIES," 38:00 — 1:20:30:

• 38:30: EARLY VICTORIAN GHOSTLY SHORT STORY, TO-WIT: WAKE NOT THE DEAD, Part 2 of 4: Walter brings Brunhilda to the castle to accustom her to the the daylight. When finally she is ready, though, Walter reaches for her and she rebuffs him: She won’t be his concubine, she tells him; he must first get rid of his new wife. Well, of course, he does; and after that, can there be any barrier to Walter’s happiness? Well, yes … because now that Brunhilda is back at his side, the youths of his domain suddenly start wasting away, almost as if some night-stalking monster was sucking their blood from them …
• 59:00: A SHORT GHOST STORY from the scrapbook of Charles Lindley, Viscount Halifax: We finish the story of the many hauntings of Hinton Ampner, a great English country-house in Hampshire; recounted by a lady who lived there for seven years.
• 1:18:10: A FEW SQUEAKY-CLEAN DAD JOKES from the early-1800s' most popular joke book: "Joe Miller's Jests; or, The Wit's Vade-mecum."

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!

*The Barony of Dunwitch is located in a deep forest glade west of Arkham (where, as H.P. Lovecraft put it, “the hills rise wild, and there are valleys with deep woods that no axe has ever cut; there are dark narrow glens where the trees slope fantastically, and where thin brooklets trickle without ever having caught the glint of sunlight.”) Actually it is a good 3,000 miles west of Arkham. It is not to be confused with Dunwich, the English seacoast town that fell house by house into the sea centuries ago, or Dunsany, the home until 1957 of legendary fantasy author Edward J.M.D. Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany.

GLOSSARY OF FLASH TERMS USED IN THIS EPISODE:

• FAULKNERS: Acrobats.

• DIMBER DAMBERS: Leaders of the canting crew.

• KNIGHTS OF THE BRUSH AND MOON: Drunken fellows wandering amok in meadows and ditches, trying to stagger home.

• CORINTHIAN: 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: A room where drinking and bantering are going on.

• OLD TOM: Top-shelf gin.

• DANDIES: Fops, high-class airheads; Bertie Wooster types.

• RATTLING GLOAKS: Simple-minded, easygoing fellows who like to talk.

There are more! But we’re out of space here. A full glossary of all the flash-cant terms used in this episode is at ⁠https://pennydread.com/discord⁠ in the "#season-4-episodes" thread.

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, 1852).
• 03:10: SWEENEY TODD, THE BARBER OF FLEET-STREET, Chapter 70-71: Sir Richard leads the party to the captive cook’s bakehouse-prison so that they can witness his captivity, and also to exchange letters with him. The letters are orders for him to carry out in the role he is to play in bringing Mrs. Lovett to justice. Then Sir Richard tells the others there is something else he must show them … something, he adds, “more horrible than all the horrors your imagination can suggest.” … He's not kidding.
• 31:10: GRIM/DARK BROADSIDE: “Horrible Murder at Nantwich!” A brief story, and a lengthy poetical lament, about a drunken domestic quarrel that ended in murder.
• 35:40: TERRIFIC REGISTER ARTICLE: (With Illustration) A grisly account of the 25-year run of the “Monster of Scotland,” a highway robber and serial murderer who, with his equally criminal wife, moved into a secret cave on the remote coast of Scotland and lived on the flesh of the travellers they robbed.

PART II: "THE TWOPENNY TORRIDS," 46:00 — 1:21:30:

• 46:30: BLACK BESS; or, THE KNIGHT OF THE ROAD (starring HIGHWAYMAN DICK TURPIN), Chapter 38-39: Tom and Dick pass through the door, re-lock it, and bar it on the other side. Then they look around. It’s a strange room … and in the center of it, they find a piece of equipment that explains a good deal about why Mr. Waghorn didn’t want the officers to follow them into the basement … but for Dick and Tom, the more important question is, is there a way out? We shall see …
• 1:07:05: SOME STREET POETRY from an 1830s “broadside”: “The Beggar-Girl” and “The Rose of Britain’s Isle.”
• 1:11:30: A VERY NAUGHTY COCK-AND-HEN-CLUB SONG: "Beating an Attack; or, The Drummer in Arms in the Park” (about a young lady who conceived a passion for a well-dressed Army drummer, and their subsequent frolic in a secluded part of the park).
• 1:16:50: A FEW MILDLY DIRTY JOKES from what passed in 1830 for a dirty joke book: "The Joke-Cracker."

* The Barony of Dunwitch is located in a wood west of Arkham (where, as H.P. Lovecraft put it, “the hills rise wild, and there are valleys with deep woods that no axe has ever cut; there are dark narrow glens where the trees slope fantastically, and where thin brooklets trickle without ever having caught the glint of sunlight.”) Actually it is a good 3,000 miles west of Arkham. It is not to be confused with Dunwich, the English seacoast town that fell house by house into the sea centuries ago, or Dunsany, the home until 1957 of legendary fantasy author Edward J.M.D. Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany.

GLOSSARY OF FLASH TERMS USED IN THIS EPISODE:

• PRIME COVES: Sporting men of the first order.
• FLY DOXIES: Dashing, possibly dangerous women.
• KNIGHTS OF THE BRUSH AND MOON: Drunken fellows wandering amok in meadows and ditches, trying to stagger home.
• CORINTHIAN: 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: A room where drinking and bantering are going on.
• TO SPEND: To ejaculate.
• SWADDY: A soldier.
• SHERRY OFF: To run away at top speed. Adopted from the nautical term "to sheer off."
• FLATS: Suckers.
• FLY TO: Wised-up about, aware of.
• FAKEMENT: Plot or scheme.
• BUMS: Bailiffs.

There are more! But we’re out of space here. A full glossary of all the flash-cant terms used in this episode is at ⁠https://pennydread.com/discord⁠ in the "#season-4-episodes" thread.

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 follow when leaving the house, and on the other side of the fence there are the signs of a mighty struggle. Even Marchdale has to admit it’s clear Charles got waylaid. So, what is to be done?
• 25:10: BROADSIDE CATCHPENNY: A little street humour: Milord came home and found milady in tears. Oh no! What could be the matter? If only he would stop wailing, gnashing his teeth, and long-windedly demanding to know what was wrong long enough for her to explain …
• 29:00: TERRIFIC REGISTER ARTICLE: He woke up from a terrible dream, that his cook was dead. Hurrying downstairs, he found her in the same clothes from his dream — a wedding dress! Meanwhile, outside, her boyfriend, the gardener, was digging a shallow grave in the petunia bed ….

PART II: "THE SIXPENNY SPOOKIES," 32:30 — 1:15:45:

• 32:45: EARLY VICTORIAN GHOSTLY SHORT STORY, TO-WIT: Wake Not the Dead, by Ernst Raupach, Part 1 of 4: The story opens on the scene of Walter, a powerful lord in Burgundy, sobbing over the grave of his first wife, the beautiful black-haired Brunhilda. Obviously delusional, he keeps begging her to wake up and “clasp him to her bosom,” if you know what he means. He does this night after night, until a sorcerer comes and tells him he can magically restore Brunhilda to life … but urges Walter not to do it. “Lasst die Todten ruhen,” he warns ominously. But Walter, of course, is in no condition to listen to reason …
• 56:25: A SHORT GHOST STORY from the scrapbook of Charles Lindley, Viscount Halifax: The many hauntings of Hinton Ampner, a great English country-house in Hampshire; recounted by a lady who lived there for seven years.
• 1:11:15: A FEW SQUEAKY-CLEAN DAD JOKES from the early-1800s' most popular joke book: "Joe Miller's Jests; or, The Wit's Vade-mecum."

*The Barony of Dunwitch is located in a deep forest glade west of Arkham (where, as H.P. Lovecraft put it, “the hills rise wild, and there are valleys with deep woods that no axe has ever cut; there are dark narrow glens where the trees slope fantastically, and where thin brooklets trickle without ever having caught the glint of sunlight.”) Actually it is a good 3,000 miles west of Arkham. It is not to be confused with Dunwich, the English seacoast town that fell house by house into the sea centuries ago, or Dunsany, the home until 1957 of legendary fantasy author Edward J.M.D. Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany.

GLOSSARY OF FLASH TERMS USED IN THIS EPISODE:

• • ACK PIRATES: Riverboat robbers.
• • BLACKLEGS: Fast-and-loose gambling men.
• • KNIGHTS OF THE BRUSH AND MOON: Drunken fellows wandering amok in meadows and ditches, trying to stagger home.
• • CORINTHIAN: 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: A room where drinking and bantering are going on.
• • NIPPERKIN: Half-pint measure (two quarterns). Please note that I was just kidding, please do not drink a whole pint of gin while listening to the show today!
• • STARK NAKED: Strong gin, of the dry (non-cordial) type, taken neat.
• • RUM BEAKS: Bribe-able magistrates and law-enforcement officers.
• • LAMBSKIN COVES: Judges.
• • VADE MECUM: Latin for "hand book."

There are more! But we’re out of space here. A full glossary of all the flash-cant terms used in this episode is at ⁠https://pennydread.com/discord⁠ in the "#season-4-episodes" thread.

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 key. They are Sir Richard Blunt, with the senior churchwarden, the Secretary of State, and the Secretary’s assistant. They are soon joined by the Lord Mayor of London. They are there on an official visit to the vaults below St. Dunstan’s. Sir Richard has something he wants to show the others….
• 28:45: A TRUE-CRIME BROADSIDE: “HORRID MURDER Committed by a Young Man on a Young Woman.” A “catchpenny” — that is, an article that claims to be true but probably isn’t.
• 32:10: TERRIFIC REGISTER ARTICLE: The story of the crime, sentencing and execution of the Earl of Ferrers for murdering a servant in cold blood in 1769.

PART II: "THE TWOPENNY TORRIDS," 42:30 — 1:23:45:

43:00: BLACK BESS; or, THE KNIGHT OF THE ROAD (starring HIGHWAYMAN DICK TURPIN), Chapter 36-37: Tom and Dick pass through the door, re-lock it, and bar it on the other side. Then they look around. It’s a strange room … and in the center of it, they find a piece of equipment that explains a good deal about why Mr. Waghorn didn’t want the officers to follow them into the basement … but for Dick and Tom, the more important question is, is there a way out? We shall see …

1:08:45: SOME STREET POETRY from an 1830s “broadside.”

1:12:55: TWO VERY NAUGHTY COCK-AND-HEN-CLUB SONGS: "The Pensioner” (about a gent whose ladyfriend brings home the bacon in the Oldest Professional way) and “The Upright” (“upright” was slang for “erection”).

1:19:50: A FEW MILDLY DIRTY JOKES from what passed in 1830 for a dirty joke book: "The Joke-Cracker."

*The Barony of Dunwitch is located in a wood west of Arkham (where, as H.P. Lovecraft put it, “the hills rise wild, and there are valleys with deep woods that no axe has ever cut; there are dark narrow glens where the trees slope fantastically, and where thin brooklets trickle without ever having caught the glint of sunlight.”) Actually it is a good 3,000 miles west of Arkham. It is not to be confused with Dunwich, the English seacoast town that fell house by house into the sea centuries ago, or Dunsany, the home until 1957 of legendary fantasy author Edward J.M.D. Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany.

GLOSSARY OF FLASH TERMS USED IN THIS EPISODE:

• • BOBTAIL: A naughty lady.
• • BON VIVANT: A choice spirit.
• • KNIGHTS OF THE BRUSH AND MOON: Drunken fellows wandering amok in meadows and ditches, trying to stagger home.
• • CORINTHIAN: 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: A room where drinking and bantering are going on.
• • PENSIONER: A man who lives off the earnings of a prostitute.
• • DONE BROWN: Done to perfection, finished off very neatly.
• • BLOWEN: A prostitute, or at least a lady of very easy virtue.
• • BLUNT: Money, with the implication that there is plenty of it.
• • MEAT: Generic slang for naughtybits, especially ladies’. Also MUTTON.
• • ROOT: Penis.
• • TREE: Word-playing reference to a very large “root.”
• • COVES: Informal reference to men, like “dudes” in modern slang.
• • COME IT FLASH: Cut a flashy figure on the scene.
• • FANCY GAL: A hot, sexy-dressing blowen.
• • GAY: Sporty, possibly naughty.
• • SHERRY OFF: To run away at top speed. Adopted from the nautical term "to sheer off."
• • FLATS: Suckers.

There are more! But we’re out of space here. A full glossary of all the flash-cant terms used in this episode is at ⁠https://pennydread.com/discord⁠ in the "#season-4-episodes" thread.

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 forgeries? What has happened to Charles? Has someone waylaid him and murdered him?” … It’s a pretty good question, isn’t it?
• 24:05: STREET BROADSIDE : A “catchpenny” broadside telling the story of the experiences of a man of the cloth who awakened in his coffin just before burial, with what you might call a “hellacious” story of his out-of-body adventures while dead.
• 30:55: TERRIFIC REGISTER ARTICLE: Tells of the almost miraculous rescue of a starving sailor stranded on his disabled ship.

PART II: "THE SIXPENNY SPOOKIES," 35:30 — 1:14:00:

• 35:50: EARLY VICTORIAN GHOSTLY SHORT STORY, TO-WIT: Carmilla by J.S. Le Fanu, Part 9 of 9: An extraordinary-looking gnome-like man now makes an appearance. This is BARON VORDENBURG, who has committed his life to research of vampires in general and Countess Mircalla in particular. He traces a map in the chapel with the general, and they end up identifying a spot in the wall, where a tablet is uncovered with “Mircalla Countess Karnstein” carved upon it. The general is delighted, and says the Inquisition will be held the following morning. … It is done. Laura’s life is thereby saved. So … why does it feel so much like a bereavement to her?
• 57:25: A SHORT GHOST STORY from the scrapbook of Charles Lindley, Viscount Halifax: An account by Mrs. Alured Brooke of her experience when, staying in Wrotham House near Maidstone in Kent, she was visited three times by a ghostly man in a grey suit who sucked all the heat from the room.
• 1:10:25: A FEW SQUEAKY-CLEAN DAD JOKES from the early-1800s' most popular joke book: "Joe Miller's Jests; or, The Wit's Vade-mecum."

A new episode of the show is released every Sunday and Thursday evening at 5:37 p.m. London time!

* The Barony of Dunwitch is located in a deep forest glade west of Arkham (where, as H.P. Lovecraft put it, “the hills rise wild, and there are valleys with deep woods that no axe has ever cut; there are dark narrow glens where the trees slope fantastically, and where thin brooklets trickle without ever having caught the glint of sunlight.”) Actually it is a good 3,000 miles west of Arkham. It is not to be confused with Dunwich, the English seacoast town that fell house by house into the sea centuries ago, or Dunsany, the home until 1957 of legendary fantasy author Edward J.M.D. Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany.

GLOSSARY OF FLASH TERMS USED IN THIS EPISODE:

• ACADEMICIANS: Bordello ladies.

• AUTEM DIVERS: Pickpockets who work the crowd at religious gatherings. Also used to refer to churchwardens and overseers of the parish poorhouse.

• KNIGHTS OF THE BRUSH AND MOON: Drunken fellows wandering amok in meadows and ditches, trying to stagger home.

• CORINTHIAN: 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: A room where drinking and bantering are going on.

• YARD OF OLD TOM: Large serving of top-shelf gin.

• FLICKER OF KILL-DEVIL: Glass of coarse, cheap gin or other spirit served raw and unaged, fresh from the still.

• YELPERS: People who lament piteously over trifles.

• CAKES: Silly fellows — cakes being made like them, of soft dough not over-well baked.

There are more! But we’re out of space here. A full glossary of all the flash-cant terms used in this episode is at ⁠https://pennydread.com/discord⁠ in the "#season-4-episodes" thread.

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, THE BARBER OF FLEET-STREET, Chapter 66-67: Johanna and Arabella get ready to implement their plan. The decide she’ll go over and ask for the job in the morning. … Meanwhile, Todd is musing about the strange fact that his customers always come by twos. He jumps up. “Yes,” he says, “the game is up. I am watched. Off and away.” And then he starts packing up his plunder, preparatory to hopping the twig, leaving Fleet-street in a great blaze behind him … then someone enters the shop. It’s a customer! Todd darts behind him — and bolts the shop door.
• 29:10: BROADSIDE: The Trials and Sentences of Prisoners at the Old Bailey in 1852 … including a lad who was put in the pillory for perjury after his testimony sent an innocent man to the gallows.
• 32:31: THE ‘REST OF THE STORY’ ABOUT THE MURDERING BURKERS: Trust me, it’s way more horrible than we realized when we read that Execution Broadside, two weeks ago!

PART II: "THE TWOPENNY TORRIDS”:

This second segment of the Thursday show contains a chapter or two of Dick Turpin's adventures, along with all the more salacious, cheeky, and naughty elements of the week — INCLUDING ...

• 44:08: BLACK BESS; or, THE KNIGHT OF THE ROAD (starring HIGHWAYMAN DICK TURPIN), Chapter 34-35: Dick and Tom stop at the Samson and Lion and ask the ostler to look after their horses. He is very surly and insolent until they pay him some money, at which point he snaps into line. Dick does a little bragging about Black Bess, which he quickly realizes was a big mistake as it is no part of their plan to reveal who they are … how big a mistake it was, our lads will soon be finding out!
• 1:08:15: SOME STREET POETRY from a broadside ballad: “The Archer-boy,” “Nan o’ the Valley,” “The Unkind Shepherdess,” and “I Love Thee Night and Day Love.”
• 1:12:55: A VERY NAUGHTY COCK-AND-HEN-CLUB SONG: "THE WAGER; or, THE HOLY OLD MAID.” In which, we learn that Aunt Sally isn’t nearly so spinsterish as her neighbours think …
• 1:17:20: A FEW SALTY AND SPICY JOKES from a somewhat edgy 1800s joke book: "The Joke-Cracker."

*The Barony of Dunwitch is located in a wood west of Arkham (where, as H.P. Lovecraft put it, “the hills rise wild, and there are valleys with deep woods that no axe has ever cut; there are dark narrow glens where the trees slope fantastically, and where thin brooklets trickle without ever having caught the glint of sunlight.”) Actually it is a good 3,000 miles west of Arkham. It is not to be confused with Dunwich, the English seacoast town that fell house by house into the sea centuries ago, or Dunsany, the home until 1957 of legendary fantasy author Edward J.M.D. Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany.

GLOSSARY OF FLASH TERMS USED IN THIS EPISODE:

• • CAPER MERCHANTS: Dancing teachers.
• • BITS O’ MUSLIN: Pretty girls.
• • KNIGHTS OF THE BRUSH AND MOON: Drunken fellows wandering amok in meadows and ditches, trying to stagger home.
• • CORINTHIAN: 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: A room where drinking and bantering are going on.

• • FLATS: Suckers.
• • FLY TO: Wised-up about, aware of.
• • FAKEMENT: Plot or scheme.

There are more! But we’re out of space here. A full glossary of all the flash-cant terms used in this episode is at ⁠https://pennydread.com/discord⁠ in the "#season-4-episodes" thread.

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 waylaid him and murdered him?” … It’s a pretty good question, isn’t it?
• 23:20: BROADSIDE BALLAD: A tale of four teen-age girls seized and carried away by His Satanic Majesty for visiting a fortune-teller’s shop. All maidens, beware! This could happen to YOU! An image of this broadside is in this episode’s notes at pennydread.com/discord
• 28:00: TERRIFIC REGISTER ARTICLE: A German anatomy professor saves the life of a specimen who, after being hanged for desertion, woke up in the dissecting-room.

PART II: "THE SIXPENNY SPOOKIES," 34:49—1:18:00:

This second segment of the show brings you Victorian ghost stories, spooky street literature, and sundry other tidbits — INCLUDING ...

• 35:12: EARLY VICTORIAN GHOSTLY SHORT STORY, TO-WIT: Carmilla by J.S. Le Fanu, Part 8 of 9: An extraordinary-looking gnome-like man now makes an appearance. This is BARON VORDENBURG, who has committed his life to research of vampires in general and Countess Mircalla in particular. He traces a map in the chapel with the general, and they end up identifying a spot in the wall, where a tablet is uncovered with “Mircalla Countess Karnstein” carved upon it. The general is delighted, and says the Inquisition will be held the following morning. … It is done. Laura’s life is thereby saved. So … why does it feel so much like a bereavement?
• 56:27: A SHORT GHOST STORY from the scrapbook of Charles Lindley, Viscount Halifax: The ghosts of Castle Glamis, in Angus, Scotland, according to the Earl of Strathmore and family. A photo of Glamis Castle is in this episode’s notes at pennydread.com/discord
• 1:14:30: A FEW SQUEAKY-CLEAN DAD JOKES from the early-1800s' most popular joke book: "Joe Miller's Jests; or, The Wit's Vade-mecum."

* The Barony of Dunwitch is located in a deep forest glade west of Arkham (where, as H.P. Lovecraft put it, “the hills rise wild, and there are valleys with deep woods that no axe has ever cut; there are dark narrow glens where the trees slope fantastically, and where thin brooklets trickle without ever having caught the glint of sunlight.”) Actually it is a good 3,000 miles west of Arkham. It is not to be confused with Dunwich, the English seacoast town that fell house by house into the sea centuries ago, or Dunsany, the home until 1957 of legendary fantasy author Edward J.M.D. Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany.

GLOSSARY OF FLASH TERMS USED IN THIS EPISODE:

• WOOD PECKER: Joker, punster, and/or word-player.

• SMASHING COVES: Housebreakers.

• KNIGHTS OF THE BRUSH AND MOON: Drunken fellows wandering amok in meadows and ditches, trying to stagger home.

• CORINTHIAN: 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: A room where drinking and bantering are going on.

• BRUSHER: Large, full glass.

• LIGHT BLUE JACKY: Gin. You could also call it just-plain “light blue,” or just-plain “jacky,” and be perfectly understood.

• TOWN TODDLERS: Marks or flats — naïve lads easily taken in by sharpers.

• LAMBSKIN COVES: Judges.

• VADE MECUM: Latin for "hand book."

There are more! But we’re out of space here. A full glossary of all the flash-cant terms used in this episode is at ⁠https://pennydread.com/discord⁠ in the "#season-4-episodes" thread.

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 crimes, and similar rays of sunshine — INCLUDING ...

• 01:05: DICKENS' DREADFUL ALMANAC for today: A tragic accident along the railway.
• 02:40: SWEENEY TODD, THE BARBER OF FLEET-STREET, Chapter 64-65: Watson puts the bite on Todd for a little monthly help. Todd is going along with it, obviously working to get Watson to lower his guard so that he can kill his way out of the blackmail situation, when Watson says, “That boy used to say some odd things of you, Mr. Todd. … Have you, by any chance, heard anything more of him?” Then, in chapter 65: Sweeney Todd invites Peter Watson into his parlour for a glass of brandy and the full satisfaction of the blackmail touch. After a couple good tumblers-full, Todd goes behind Watson’s chair to get some biscuits. Sweeney Todd seems like a bad fellow to turn one’s back on … doesn’t he?
• 34:30: TERRIFIC REGISTER ARTICLE: The would-be murderer slipped into the rich guest’s room, knife in one hand and dark lantern in the other, to find … someone had already done him in!

PART II: "THE TWOPENNY TORRIDS," 38:20 — 1:13:30:

This second segment of the Thursday show contains a chapter or two of Dick Turpin's adventures, along with all the more salacious, cheeky, and naughty elements of the week — INCLUDING ...

• 38:48: HIGHWAYMAN DICK TURPIN in BLACK BESS; or, THE KNIGHT OF THE ROAD, Chapter 32-33: Ostler Alf’s Cunning Plan turns out to be to climb into the hayloft and come upon the officers from inside the house, knowing they’ll be watching at the door. As they are preparing their attack, the two highwaymen can hear the officers singing a merry song inside, obviously well on their way to a jolly evening involving lots of good things to drink. Moving during the choruses of the songs when all the officers are singing along, the highwaymen slip up and pounce….
• 1:01:00: THREE VERY NAUGHTY COCK-AND-HEN-CLUB SONGS: "The Little Black (furry) Thing,” “The Mouse-trap,” and “With Mike Hunt I Have Travel’d All Over the Town.”
• 1:10:50: A FEW SALTY AND SPICY JOKES from an 1804 joke book titled "The Joke-cracker."

A new episode of the show is released every Sunday and Thursday evening at 5:37 p.m. London time!

* The Barony of Dunwitch is located in a wood west of Arkham (where, as H.P. Lovecraft put it, “the hills rise wild, and there are valleys with deep woods that no axe has ever cut; there are dark narrow glens where the trees slope fantastically, and where thin brooklets trickle without ever having caught the glint of sunlight.”) Actually it is a good 3,000 miles west of Arkham. It is not to be confused with Dunwich, the English seacoast town that fell house by house into the sea centuries ago, or Dunsany, the home until 1957 of legendary fantasy author Edward J.M.D. Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany.

GLOSSARY OF FLASH TERMS USED IN THIS EPISODE:

• BEAU TRAPS: Well-dressed swindlers, fortune hunters.
• ARCH DOXIES: Underworld ladies of high rank.

• KNIGHTS OF THE BRUSH AND MOON: Drunken fellows wandering amok in meadows and ditches, trying to stagger home.
• CORINTHIAN: 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: A room where drinking and bantering are going on.

A full glossary of the flash-cant terms used in this episode is at ⁠https://pennydread.com/discord⁠ in the "#season-4-episodes" thread.

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: Charles Holland consults his uncle and borrows 50 pounds, which he intends to place at Henry Bannerworth’s disposal to relieve his money woes. He asks the admiral if ever he has seen something so weird as this vampire business, and the admiral describes an encounter with a strange character at sea who appeared on his ship in defiance of the captain’s desires, seemed to command the weather, and vanished just before they arrived in port. We are left wondering, as the admiral obviously does, it that character might have been Sir Francis Varney himself …
• 33:15: TERRIFIC REGISTER ARTICLE: The curriculum vitae of a very interesting juvenile delinquent named Leary, whose exploits in theft, pickpocketing, and highway robbery have resulted in his being transported to Australia for life.

PART II: "THE SIXPENNY SPOOKIES," 0:38:10 — 1:09:30:

This second segment of the show brings you Victorian ghost stories, spooky street literature, and sundry other tidbits — INCLUDING ...

• 38:42: EARLY VICTORIAN GHOSTLY SHORT STORY, TO-WIT: Carmilla by J.S. Le Fanu, Part 7 of 9 (chapters 11 and 12): General Spielsdorf tells his story — a story of a strange noble lady in velvet who suddenly has to fly on a matter of life and death in her travelling-coach, leaving her beautiful dark-haired daughter Millarca in the care of the general and his young ward Bertha. The lady, the daughter, the travelling-coach — everything sounds so much like Carmilla’s story. Is it her? Or her twin sister? We will, hopefully, soon find out …
• 58:05: A SHORT GHOST STORY from a street broadside of the type called a “catchpenny” — which claims to be a true story, but probably isn’t: The ghost of a murdered woman appears to a miller to demand he help bring her killer to justice.
• 1:05:30: A FEW SQUEAKY-CLEAN DAD JOKES from the early-1800s' most popular joke book: "Joe Miller's Jests; or, The Wit's Vade-mecum."

A new episode of the show is released every Sunday and Thursday evening at 5:37 p.m. London time!

* The Barony of Dunwitch is located in a deep forest glade west of Arkham (where, as H.P. Lovecraft put it, “the hills rise wild, and there are valleys with deep woods that no axe has ever cut; there are dark narrow glens where the trees slope fantastically, and where thin brooklets trickle without ever having caught the glint of sunlight.”) Actually it is a good 3,000 miles west of Arkham. It is not to be confused with Dunwich, the English seacoast town that fell house by house into the sea centuries ago, or Dunsany, the home until 1957 of legendary fantasy author Edward J.M.D. Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany.

GLOSSARY OF FLASH TERMS USED IN THIS EPISODE:

• NABOBS: Swell coves who have made their fortunes abroad and returned home to Old Blighty to enjoy it.
• NATTY LADS: Good-looking young pickpockets.
• FLICKER: Drinking glass.
• EYE WATER: Gin — utility grade, not the good stuff.
• JOBBER KNOTS: Tall stupid fellows.
• BLUNDERBUSSES: Blustering ignorant fellows.
• KNIGHTS OF THE BRUSH AND MOON: Drunken fellows wandering amok in meadows and ditches, trying to stagger home.
• CORINTHIAN: 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: A room where drinking and bantering are going on.

A full glossary of the flash-cant terms used in this episode is at https://pennydread.com/discord in the "#season-4-episodes" thread.

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 story of a young boy who was infected with rabies by a beloved neighborhood dog.
• 04:45: SWEENEY TODD, THE BARBER OF FLEET-STREET, Chapter 62-63: As Johanna and Arabella walk home from the Temple-garden meeting, Johanna is in a maudlin mood and talking crazy about death and destiny and eternity. Arabella, a little alarmed, tries to settle her down by proposing a plan of action, to take her mind off things. Unfortunately, that plan is — for Johanna to dress in boys’ clothes and apply for the vacant job as a “pious boy” in Todd’s shop! Too late, she realizes what a terrible and dangerous idea this would be. But, can she unring that bell, now that Johanna has heard her idea? And will Johanna follow through with it?
• 24:25: BROADSIDE BALLAD: The story of the trial and execution of a gang of “burkers” for murdering a poor Italian boy to sell his corpse to the nearest medical college.

PART II: "THE TWOPENNY TORRIDS," 35:10 — 1:09:25:

This second segment of the Thursday show contains a chapter or two of Dick Turpin's adventures, along with all the more salacious, cheeky, and naughty elements of the week — INCLUDING ...

• 35:45: BLACK BESS; or, THE KNIGHT OF THE ROAD (starring HIGHWAYMAN DICK TURPIN), Chapter 30-31: Arriving at the stable where Black Bess was lodged, Tom and Dick pay a street urchin to watch their horses for them, and creep toward the stable. Soon Dick spots the ostler, Alf, and calls him over. Alf confirms the five officers are all in the stable, along with Tom Davis, whom they have taken prisoner. Tom and Dick decide to make a frontal attack, thrash the officers, and make their escape with Tom. But, it’s two against five. Can they bring it off? Not to worry, Alf says — he’s got a Cunning Plan ….
• 57:10: A FEW DIRTY JOKES from a salty joke book titled “The Joke-Cracker” (1803).
• 1:00:10: TWO VERY NAUGHTY COCK-AND-HEN-CLUB SONGS: "The Slap-Up Blowing” (a celebration of a particularly amazing lady of the evening) and “Oh no, I never mention it” (a young man’s musical tribute to a particular but unnamed lady’s “naughty bits”)
• 1:05:50: A FEW SQUEAKY-CLEAN DAD JOKES from the early-1800s' most popular joke book: "Joe Miller's Jests; or, The Wit's Vade-mecum."

A new episode of the show is released every Sunday and Thursday evening at 5:37 p.m. London time. (5:37 p.m. is Dick Turpin Scragging Hour: It's 17:37 in military time, and Dick Turpin — the historical figure — was hanged in 1737 A.D.)

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!

• * The Barony of Dunwitch is located in a wood west of Arkham (where “the hills rise wild, and there are valleys with deep woods that no axe has ever cut; there are dark narrow glens where the trees slope fantastically, and where thin brooklets trickle without ever having caught the glint of sunlight.”) Actually it is a good 3,000 miles west of Arkham. It is not to be confused with Dunwich, the English seacoast town that fell house by house into the sea centuries ago, or Dunsany, the home until 1957 of legendary fantasy author Edward J.M.D. Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany.

GLOSSARY OF FLASH TERMS USED IN THIS EPISODE:

• A full glossary of the flash-cant terms used in this episode at https://pennydread.com/discord .

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 from Varney himself, inviting Charles to meet him at midnight in the garden, alone, to talk things over or, if he likes, fight. Charles looks forward to it. He takes leave of Flora — kisses her for the first time — but as he leaves her room, he is oppressed by a foreshadowing sense that he will not see her again for a long, long time, if ever …
• 22:45: BROADSIDE BALLAD: The man who was hanged, who is still alive! This is an early-day form of clickbait, but it gave us a reason to look at failed hangings. Turns out several people, over the years, have survived being hanged.
• 29:35: TERRIFIC REGISTER ARTICLE: The ship was on fire! How to get the baby to safety? This mariner opted to tie the little tyke to the back of a sheep and let him ride the wooly beasty to shore … and it worked!
• 33:00: EARLY VICTORIAN GHOSTLY SHORT STORY, TO-WIT: Carmilla by J.S. Le Fanu, Part 6: Unexpectedly (to Laura) the little doctor arrives at the schloss to examine her. Her father has sent for him without telling her. The doctor hears her story with increasingly evident alarm and horror; inspects her throat — finding a small blue speck on the skin where she recalls the twin-needle pain. The doctor and the father have a long, animated colloquy before he delivers his prescription: She is never to be allowed to be alone. Madame is charged with staying close by her at all times. Then, Laura’s father sets out for Castle Karnstein in the carriage, for a visit and picnic. They leave at noon, before Carmilla wakes up, and Mademoiselle is going to bring her along later. On the way they meet the bereaved General Spielsdorf, he who has dedicated his life to destroying a monster. He also is going to Karnstein … he says, to perform “a pious sacrilege here, which will relieve our earth of certain monsters”...
• 51:27: A SHORT GHOST STORY from the scrapbook of Charles Lindley, Viscount Halifax: An English family rents a gorgeous French house for cheap … then learns why it was so inexpensive! “Madame, monsieur; il y a un revenant ici!”
• 1:06:20: A FEW SQUEAKY-CLEAN DAD JOKES from the early-1800s' most popular joke book: "Joe Miller's Jests; or, The Wit's Vade-mecum."

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! A new episode of the show is released every Sunday and Thursday evening at 5:37 p.m. London time.

• * The Barony of Dunwitch is located in a wood west of Arkham (where “the hills rise wild, and there are valleys with deep woods that no axe has ever cut; there are dark narrow glens where the trees slope fantastically, and where thin brooklets trickle without ever having caught the glint of sunlight.”) Actually it is a good 3,000 miles west of Arkham. It is not to be confused with Dunwich, the English seacoast town that fell house by house into the sea centuries ago, or Dunsany, the home until 1957 of legendary fantasy author Edward J.M.D. Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany.

GLOSSARY OF FLASH TERMS USED IN THIS EPISODE:

A full glossary of the flash-cant terms used in this episode at https://pennydread.com/discord .

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 murders, public executions, disasters, brutal crimes, and similar rays of sunshine — INCLUDING ...

• 03:23: DICKENS' DREADFUL ALMANAC for today: A horrible mystery of the death of a boy abducted and murdered by persons unknown.
• 06:55: SWEENEY TODD, THE BARBER OF FLEET-STREET, Chapter 61: Johanna and Arabella meet up with Colonel Jeffery in the Temple Garden and he tells them about Tobias’s adventures. Arabella seems to be meditating on something, hatching a scheme. What could it be? And will it lead to ruin?
• 25:29: BROADSIDE BALLAD: A celebration of the sentencing of Barney, the Oilman of Brick-lane, to three weeks in prison for severely beating his 11-year-old shopboy with a cane.
• 29:07: TERRIFIC REGISTER ARTICLE: A dreadful tale, purportedly true, of a bad seed who made a shocking deathbed confession.

PART II: "THE TWOPENNY TORRIDS," 32:40 — 1:14:20:

This second segment of the Thursday show contains a chapter or two of Dick Turpin's adventures, along with all the more salacious, cheeky, and naughty elements of the week — INCLUDING ...

• 33:10: BLACK BESS; or, THE KNIGHT OF THE ROAD (starring HIGHWAYMAN DICK TURPIN), Chapter 27-30: Turpin and King return to the Hand and Keys. Davis still has not returned, and Dick is getting very worried. He decides to travel to London and investigate, and free Tom Davis from the clutches of the grabs if he’s been touched; King volunteers to come with him. On the way, they talk over plans to rescue Black Bess. Then, in Chapter 29 — Turpin and King, on their journey to London, decide to “do a little business” with the horseman who’s coming toward them, reasoning that it won’t delay them much and he might have a rich booty. Accordingly they give him the old “Stand and Deliver” line; whereupon he draws his sword and attacks. He ends up in a great sword fight with Tom King. Then he calls a halt and offers King his purse; but King declines it, as does Dick. Both agree he’s defended himself so valiantly and cleanly that he’s earned their respect and friendship, and they don’t rob friends. Then he introduces himself — and both are astonished when they learn who they just tried to rob!

• 1:03:00: A FEW DIRTY JOKES from a collection from "The Chestnut Club," circa 1870.
• 1:05:55: TWO VERY NAUGHTY COCK-AND-HEN-CLUB SONGS: "The Chickster to her Dab has Gone” and “O Saw You My Ass When ‘Twas Out on the Green.”
• 1:11:10: A FEW SQUEAKY-CLEAN DAD JOKES from the early-1800s' most popular joke book: "Joe Miller's Jests; or, The Wit's Vade-mecum."

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!

*The Barony of Dunwitch is located in a wood west of Arkham (where “the hills rise wild, and there are valleys with deep woods that no axe has ever cut; there are dark narrow glens where the trees slope fantastically, and where thin brooklets trickle without ever having caught the glint of sunlight.”) Actually it is a good 3,000 miles west of Arkham. It is not to be confused with Dunwich, the English seacoast town that fell house by house into the sea centuries ago, or Dunsany, the home until 1957 of legendary fantasy author Edward J.M.D. Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany.

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 challenge the vampire to a duel. He is a little surprised to find his uncle is enthusiastically supportive … suspiciously so. What scheme does the old admiral have in mind? And will it work, or is Charles doomed to fall beneath the fast-flickering blade of a vampire?
• 29:30: TERRIFIC REGISTER ARTICLE: We take coroner’s inquests for granted in the case of sudden death, but did you ever wonder how they got started? It’s all to do with this one woman … and her six dead husbands.

PART II: "THE SIXPENNY SPOOKIES," 32:00 — 1:02:00:

This second segment of the Thursday show contains a chapter or two of Dick Turpin's adventures, along with all the more salacious, cheeky, and naughty elements of the week — INCLUDING ...

• 32:40: EARLY VICTORIAN GHOSTLY SHORT STORY, TO-WIT: Carmilla by J.S. Le Fanu, Part 5 of 9 (chapters 7 and 8): In Part Five, we see Laura sinking beneath the influence of a terrible Something, and becoming pale, languid and melancholy, like Carmilla. Then one night, she is awakened by the voice of her long-dead Hungarian mother warning her to beware of an assassin! Waking up in a fright, she runs to Carmilla’s room … and finds her gone! Where could she be? And why?
• 47:25: A SHORT GHOST STORY from the scrapbook of Charles Lindley, Viscount Halifax: An account written by Lord Halifax himself recounting his personal experience meeting the ghost of an Argyll harper who was hanged by Marquis Montrose’s men during the Scottish Civil War.
• 59:20: A COUPLE SQUEAKY-CLEAN DAD JOKES from the early-1800s' most popular joke book: "Joe Miller's Jests; or, The Wit's Vade-mecum."

A new episode of the show is released every Sunday and Thursday evening at 5:37 p.m. London time. (5:37 p.m. is Dick Turpin Scragging Hour: It's 17:37 in military time, and Dick Turpin — the historical figure — was hanged in 1737 A.D.)

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!

GLOSSARY OF FLASH TERMS USED IN THIS EPISODE:

A full glossary of the flash-cant terms used in this episode at https://pennydread.com/discord .

*The Barony of Dunwitch is located in a wood west of Arkham (where “the hills rise wild, and there are valleys with deep woods that no axe has ever cut; there are dark narrow glens where the trees slope fantastically, and where thin brooklets trickle without ever having caught the glint of sunlight.”) Actually it is a good 3,000 miles west of Arkham. It is not to be confused with Dunwich, the English seacoast town that fell house by house into the sea centuries ago, or Dunsany, the home until 1957 of legendary fantasy author Edward J.M.D. Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany.

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 back and press charges.
• 04:20: SWEENEY TODD, THE BARBER OF FLEET-STREET, Chapter 60: We cut to St. Dunstan’s Church on a Sunday morning, with Sweeney Todd in attendance. He chats up the beadle, who mentions the “suicide” of John Mundel; and mutters to himself that the smell isn’t really so bad, before returning to his shop. He is advertising for a “pious boy” as a barber’s apprentice … will he find one? And will the boy he finds survive the ordeal of serving as Todd’s apprentice?

• 20:15: BROADSIDE BALLAD: The story of a landlady who murdered her wealthy tenant, and two Londoners who murdered a third in a brothel, sent to the gallows at Newgate.

27:46: TERRIFIC REGISTER ARTICLE: The true-crime story of a black-widow bride's plan coming to fruition ... and to ruin.

PART II: "THE TORRIDS," 32:20 — 1:08:00:

This second segment of the Thursday show contains a chapter or two of Dick Turpin's adventures, along with all the more salacious, cheeky, and naughty elements of the week — INCLUDING ...

• 33:00: BLACK BESS; or, THE KNIGHT OF THE ROAD (starring HIGHWAYMAN DICK TURPIN), Chapter 25-26: The inquest on the suicide is held, and the verdict is suicide. According to the ancient custom, that means the body will be buried at the nearest crossroads, at midnight, with a stake driven through its heart. Will the townsfolk really be barbaric enough to follow through with this revolting procedure?
• 55:10: A FEW DIRTY JOKES from a collection from "The Chestnut Club," circa 1870.
• 59:10: TWO VERY NAUGHTY COCK-AND-HEN-CLUB SONGS: "The Tinder-box" and "Of All the Blowings On the Town."
• 1:04:45: 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 FLASH TERMS USED IN THIS EPISODE:

• SQUIRT QUESTERS: Bartenders.

• CATGUT TEASERS: Fiddle players.
• KNIGHTS OF THE BRUSH AND MOON: Drunken fellows wandering amok in meadows and ditches, trying to stagger home.
• CORINTHIAN: 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: A room where drinking and bantering are going on.
• BLOWINGS: Prostitutes.
• PRIGS: Thieves.
• LAGGED: Transported to Australia.
• LUSHINGTON: Habitual drunk (a reference to Lushington's, a famous London brewery, and its products).
• IN QUOD: In jail.
• SWAG: Stolen goods — booty, basically.
• SESSIONS: The season when criminal court is in session.
• KEN: Home or place, the root of modern "kennel."
• SHERRY OFF: To run away at top speed. Adopted from the nautical term "to sheer off."
• FLATS: Suckers.
• FLY TO: Wised-up about, aware of.
• FAKEMENT: Plot or scheme.
• 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 in Paddington parish.
• DUNWICH, TOWN OF (spelled with no "T"): A seacoast town east of London, once very large, which eroded away and fell into the sea starting in the 13th century; only a few streets and houses remain today.
• DUNWITCH, BARONY OF (spelled with a "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.

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 plan, but he won’t say what it is. What can he have in mind? Is it some rash plan to challenge the vampire? If so, will he survive the encounter?

20:50: THE TOWN IN AN UPROAR (broadsheet ballad from 1829):

• Tells the story of "a Grand Boxing Match, between a young Lady, and her Maid, for the sake of the handsome young Coachman, both of them being in Love with him; Together with a merry Song."

29:59: REMARKABLE PREDICTION (article from The Terrific Register magazine):

• Tells of Jonathan Pyrah, who during the Thirty Years War took to prophecy and made some singular predictions which came strictly true, then returned to England and went mad.

33:35: CARMILLA, by J.S. Le Fanu (1871), Part 4 of 9. IN WHICH:—

• A picture cleaner comes to the castle with a load of family heirlooms belonging to Laura’s mother’s Hungarian family, which her father had sent away to be cleaned. One of them is a dead-on likeness of Carmilla, but the tag on the frame reads “Mircalla Countess Karnstein, 1698.” Everyone agrees it’s an amazing coincidence that Carmilla looks so exactly like the picture. — That night, Laura has another nightmare … but is it really just a nightmare? Or something more sinister?

PLUS —

• An artist sees a ghost — and asks her to sit for a portrait!

• We learn a few more Victorian "dad jokes" from good old Joe Miller!

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!

GLOSSARY OF FLASH TERMS USED IN THIS EPISODE:

• HIGH FLYERS: Well-dressed landowners and respectable gentlemen.
• NATTY NABOBS: Nabobs were bigwigs who have made a fortune overseas and come home. "Natty" meant neat and tidy.
• KNIGHTS OF THE BRUSH AND MOON: Drunken fellows wandering amok by moonlight in fields and ditches, trying to stagger home.
• CORINTHIAN: A sporting man of rank and fashion. Word is best known for its use by author Pierce Egan for his character "Corinthian Tom" — the "Tom" half of "Tom and Jerry."
• CHAFFING-CRIB: A room where drinking and bantering are going on.

• FLICKER: Drinking-glass used for gin.
• HOLY WATER: Gin.
• JOLTER HEADS: Dull, blustering landlord.
• DANDIPRATS: Insignificant or trifling fellows.

• GRETNA GREEN: A Scottish town famous as a destination for lovers to elope to for matrimonial purposes. Scotland's marriage laws were less strict than English laws.
• 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 remain
• DUNWITCH, 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.

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 Bertrand! What is he doing there? And what are Clara’s chances of getting out of this — stuck in a chateau in the middle of nowhere in a foreign country at the mercy of — not one, but TWO such thundering rogues?

0:25:30: TERRIBLE TIDBIT OF THE DAY (from "Dickens' Dreadful Almanac"):

• A little joking horseplay with what they thought was an unloaded antique blunderbuss hanging on the wall turned into a dreadful and fatal accident, 174 years ago today.

0:27:10: CRUEL AND INHUMAN MURDER COMMITTED UPON THE BODY OF CAPT. LAWSON: (street broadside)

• A broadsheet printed up telling the story of a maiden whose fiance, after throwing her over for a richer bride, tried to force her to give him back the letters he'd written her ... and she defended herself with a carving-knife. (The headline on this one is misleading.)

0:22:36: EXCESSIVE PUNISHMENT FOR A TRIFLING EXPRESSION:

• A story of the Bad Old Days of the Thirty Years War, in the late 1640s, when a Catholic gentleman's joke at the expense of Stuart Princess Elizabeth (who had married the king of Bohemia) prompted Parliament to impose an outrageous punishment upon him for daring to make fun of the precious royal family.

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:

• HABERDASHERS: Smugglers of liquor.

• BITS OF MUSLIN: Pretty girls.
• KNIGHTS OF THE BRUSH AND MOON: Drunken fellows wandering amok in meadows and ditches, trying to stagger home.
• CORINTHIAN: 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: A room where drinking and bantering are going on.
• SHERRY OFF: To run away at top speed. Adopted from the nautical term "to sheer off."
• CULLS: Mildly disparaging term for men.
• DOWN TO: Wised-up about, aware of.
• FAKEMENT: Plot or scheme.
• 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 in Paddington parish.
• DUNWICH, TOWN OF (spelled with no "T"): A seacoast town east of London, once very large, which eroded away and fell into the sea starting in the 13th century; only a few streets and houses remain today.
• DUNWITCH, BARONY OF (spelled with a "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 (Lord Dunsany), one of Mr. Lovecraft's favorite authors and a major influence upon his work.

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 minds? Is this the end for poor young Edgar?

0:22:30: BROADSIDE STREET BALLAD:

• "Courting in the Kitchen." When the lord of the manor came home, our lusty young swain found himself thrown under the hackney-coach by his erstwhile ladyfriend, the boss's kitchen maid, and draws six months on the Brixton treadmill!

0:24:50: A SALACIOUS SALOON SONG:

• "The Ploughman and the Priest." When a newlywed ploughman finds himself unable to take care of his matrimonial duties, the town's parson steps in to help out!

0:30:20: THREE VICTORIAN-AGE DIRTY JOKES.

• From "The Chestnut Club."

Join host Corinthian Finn, a.k.a. Finn J.D. John, for a half-hour-long spree through the scandal-sheets and story papers of old London! Grab a decanter and top off your glass, unload your stumps, and let's go!

GLOSSARY OF FLASH TERMS USED IN THIS EPISODE:

• ACK PIRATES: Thieves who specialize in swiping cargo from riverboats and barges.
• ARCH DOXIES: Spirited, audacious, possibly dangerous ladies.
• KNIGHTS OF THE BRUSH AND MOON: Drunken fellows wandering amok in meadows and ditches, trying to stagger home.

• CHAFFING-CRIB: A room where drinking and bantering are going on.

• CHICKSTERS: Flamboyant ladies, often prostitutes
• LADYBIRDS: Another term for chicksters
• BULLY ROCKS: Brothel muscle men
• ABBESS: Brothel madam
• MOTHER H: A famous abbess from the 1830s
• BOLT THE MOON: Fly by night
• BEAKS: Magistrates and judges
• BODY SNATCHERS: Police officers. (Actual body snatchers were called "resurrection-men.")
• DUNWICH, TOWN OF (spelled with no "T"): A seacoast town east of London, once very large, which eroded away and fell into the sea starting in the 13th century; only a few streets and houses remain today.

• DUNWITCH, BARONY OF (spelled with a "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.