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

3.07: Walter Sydney's secret. — The evil ghost of a "hanging judge!" — The Spanish lady's murderous scheme.


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Episode Seven of Season Three! — A Sunday-evening full episode IN WHICH —

0:01:35: THE MYSTERIES OF LONDON, Ch. 18:

  • We start to unravel some of the secrets of Walter Sydney … as the scene opens, we see him — uh, her — in her boudoir, lounging on a French bed (with a boobie out, by the way, if the original art is to be believed!) and reading a book and complaining bitterly about having to keep up the charade of masculinity. But why is she doing so? And who is the mysterious Mr. Stephens whom she answers to?


0:20:45: TERRIFIC REGISTER ARTICLE:

  • We learn the story of a Spanish lady who, trapped in a loveless marriage, induces her lover to murder her husband ...


0:28:50: AN ACCOUNT OF SOME STRANGE DISTURBANCES IN AUNGIER STREET, by J.S. LeFanu: Part 3 of 3

  • In which we learn, from Richard and Tom's Irish maid, who and what the ghost of the Aungier Street mansion was, and how close Tom in particular came to making for it a fresh victim.


PLUS —

  • We learn a new Flash song (starting around 0:27:20): "Moll in the Wad," full of fun highway-robber slang (see below). — And ...
  • We browse through a few "recipes" for bad literature, published in Punch, the comedy magazine of the 1840s (starting around 0:47:20). — And ...
  • We learn a few more Victorian "dad jokes" from good old Joe Miller!


Join host Finn J.D. John. for a one-hour-long spree through the scandal-sheets and story papers of old London! Grab a flicker of blue ruin, unload your stumps, and let's go!


EPISODE ART is from The Mysteries of London, and shows "Mr. Walter Sydney" relaxing with a book in her boudoir.

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