FIVE NEW FLASH-CANT WORDS AND PHRASES —
- "On the Mace"
- "Angelics"
- "Misstopper"
- "Bone" and "Bank the swag"
- "Arch doxies, ack pirates, pigmen, rum quod culls, laced women and flowers of society"
Plus a chapter each from our five vintage Penny Dreadfuls!
0:04:20: SWEENEY TODD, Ch. 49 —
- Poor barber’s apprentice Tobias Ragg remains in a state of temporary insanity. But Tobias’s dim-witted mother has brought back his childhood sweetheart, Minna Grey. Will she be able to bring him back to his senses? And if she does, will he be able to tell anything that will shed light on Sweeney Todd’s many crimes?
0:17:50: BLACK BESS (Dick Turpin) Ch. 11—
- A strange traveler comes to the Hand and Keys inn and knocks on the door just as a guest is telling of a horrible murder that was committed there eight years previously. A not-over-well-liked steward was stabbed to death and robbed. The knocker is brought in by the fire, and the story continues; but the newcomer becomes agitated and goes upstairs before too long. He seems very uneasy. Then ... a pistol shot rings out on the night air, and a terrified scream ...
0:45:20: VARNEY THE VAMPYRE, Ch. 11—
- Henry Bannerworth urges Charles Holland to flee and leave the vampire-blighted Bannerworth family to its fate; but he steadfastly refuses to do so, reaffirms his commitment to Flora, and asks to be billeted in the room in which the undead apparition visited her. Will he prove more than a match for Vampey? He hopes so.
1:04:30: SPRING-HEEL'D JACK Ch. 11—
- Jack is in a tight spot — trapped in a churchyard vault with the fresh corpse of the thief he has just frightened to death, and with a crowd growing outside attracted by the thief’s terrified shrieks. If he’s caught in the vault, he’ll be prosecuted for murder! Can he escape? How?
1:20:40: THE BLACK BAND Ch. 11—
- We meet another couple of characters ... an elderly man with rat-like eyes by the name of Samuel Crank, who is an Agent for something or someone; nobody in the neighborhood knows precisely who, or even what Samuel Crank looks like! Then a tall, dark man comes to his office, and we recognize him as Colonel Mephistopholes — Oscar Bertrand himself. What fresh deviltry could they have afoot? Then a knock at the door, and Mephistopholes hides to eavesdrop. Who could it be? What could they want?
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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