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

3.10: The vampire's fair victim lets her guard down. — The "Vampyre" who started it all! — She survived being buried alive in an avalanche! (A Sixpenny Supernatural Sunday full episode!)

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Episode 10 of Season Three! — A Sunday-evening full episode (which I goofed and set to publish a day early) IN WHICH —

01:50: VARNEY THE VAMPYRE, Ch. 18:

  • In this chapter, Flora relaxes in her new, as-yet-uncontaminated-by-a-vampire room and tries to distract herself with a novel. Then she hears a soft footstep approaching the door ...


33:50: TERRIFIC REGISTER ARTICLE:

  • We learn of three women buried by a winter's avalanche in the Alps, who were found alive when the snows melted the next spring!


42:10: THE VAMPYRE, by Dr. John Polidori:

  • In which we meet Mr. Aubrey, a naive young gentleman who is fascinated by a nobleman in his circle of friends named Lord Ruthven — whose tin-like eye and apparent utter absence of empathy are somehow darkly compelling. Aubrey accompanies Ruthven on a tour of Europe, but soon realizes he's a malicious and evil character ... This is Part 1 of 3 parts (Part 2 will come next Sunday).


PLUS —

  • We explore a "broadside ballad" published in 1850: "The Young Sailor Bold and The Unfortunate Shepherdess" ...
  • 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 Varney the Vampyre, and shows a scene from a novel Flora is reading to distract herself from the threat of the vampire.


GLOSSARY OF FLASH TERMS USED IN THIS EPISODE:

  • High flyers: Audacious, impudent women.
  • Gammoners: Hustlers or con artists.
  • Knights of the Brush and Moon: Drunken fellows wandering amok by moonlight in fields and ditches, trying to stagger home.
  • Badge coves: Parish pensioners.
  • Gunpowders: Old ladies.
  • Pike off: Run away
  • 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.
  • Rum te tum with the chill off: Most emphatically excellent.
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