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

3.06: A victim barely escapes Sweeney Todd's clutches! — The murder of Miss Elms: A very cold 'cold case.' — The Cruel Captain — A Horrid Infanticide — it's a Ha'penny Horror 'Hursday episode!

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A half-hour- long 'Hursday Horrors Minisode IN WHICH —

0:02:01: SWEENEY TODD Ch. 56, IN WHICH —:

  • Back at the shop, Todd finds to his delight that a very likely prospect — a sailor just back from India with a pocket full of guineas — has come into his shop alone, unlike every other customer for the past few days. The sailor slipped in when Sir Richard’s men weren’t looking! Is Sir Richard’s decision to hold off arresting Todd about to cost a man his life? Will he be turned into pies?


0:14:33: TRIGGER WARNING!

  • This is a Ha'penny Horrid 'Hursday episode. "Horrid" as in "horror." Thursday is the day we do all the grimdark, grisly, horrifying stories, starting right after the chapter of the daily Dreadful! So: If murders, war crimes, parricides, and other awful stuff are not something you are interested in hearing about, even 200 years later — you should skip to the next podcast in your queue after the Dreadful finishes up. Don't worry, we'll be back this coming Sunday for the regular Penny Dreadful Variety Hour, when this podcast will be back to being a bright, sunny romp through Penny Dreadful stories!


0:16:33: A MONSTROUSLY-CRUEL MURDER!!! and THE CRUEL CAPTAIN (two broadside ballad).

  • On May 4, 1833, the mutilated body of 70-year-old Miss Catherine Elms was found in her house. The murderer had left valuable swag untouched, but had rifled through all her papers ... as far as I could learn, this crime was never solved.
  • The Cruel Captain is a tragic ballad of a fair Plymouth maiden who let her beau, an Irish sea-captain, take her out alone on a boat as a date. He then ravished her and drowned her in the sea.


0:23:25: THE TERRIFIC REGISTER:

  • An awful, but short, tale of a reluctantly-pregnant new mother who tried to give birth in secret and drown her newborn child in the sea.


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!

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