The Penny Dreadful Variety Hour: An Early Victorian Feast of Crammers and Moonshine!

018: Mrs. Lovett's beau is shaved — The highwayman's hotel — The family vampire — Evil Mr. Grasper's revenge — The duel by the sea-shore. Plus, five new flash-cant words!

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FIVE NEW FLASH-CANT WORDS AND PHRASES —

  • "Glim"
  • "Bolt the moon"
  • "Nubbing"
  • "Flat-catchers"
  • "The holy land"

Plus a chapter each from our five vintage Penny Dreadfuls!


0:03:45: SWEENEY TODD, Ch. 44 —

  • Mrs. Lovett, disappointed at learning the truth about her new beau, Major Bounce, plots to avenge her wounded pride by getting him made into pies ...


0:20:00: BLACK BESS (Dick Turpin) Ch. 6 —

  • Highwayman Dick Turpin, weak from loss of blood, sees a spectral horseman in the moonlight. Is it a premonition of coming death? Will he make it safely to the thieves' rookery on Drury Lane for some much-needed rest?


0:40:30: VARNEY THE VAMPYRE, Ch. 6—

  • In which we learn some interesting facts about the Bannerworth family. Could the dreaded vampire actually be Sir Runnagate Bannerworth, George and Henry's own grandfather? A desperate scheme is hatched to learn the truth ...


0:58:40: SPRING-HEEL'D JACK Ch. 56—

  • We we learn that Ralph Grasper, the lecherous villain who tried to subject virtuous Jane Slater to a Fate Worse than Death, was even more treacherous than we thought!


1:22:30: THE BLACK BAND Ch. 56—

  • Colonel Bertrand is plotting, and we begin to suspect he intends to murder Lord Lionel’s older brother! There is to be a duel with pistols ... there can be only one possible outcome ...


Join Professor Flash, a.k.a. Finn J.D. John. for a 90-minute spree through the story papers of old London! Grab a flicker of blue ruin, unload your stumps, and let's go!

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