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

3.13: The Mysterious Mr. Montague. — The Vampyre caught at his hideous feast! — Lady B. struggles in vain to change her destiny. (A Sixpenny Supernatural Sunday full episode)

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Episode 13 of Season Three! — A Sunday-evening full episode (released a few hours early) IN WHICH —

01:50: MYSTERIES OF LONDON, Ch. 8:

  • In which: “Mr. Walter Sydney”’s real name is, we learn, Eliza. She comes to her meeting with Mr. Stephens hoping for more information about what his plans are. She is worried that maybe her powers are being used for some kind of evil … well … are they?


19:20: TERRIFIC REGISTER ARTICLE:

  • Lady Beresford's childhood friend, Lord Tyrone, appeared at her bedside one night. He had just died, and had appeared to her to warn her, so that she could avoid the fate that lay before her — to marry a cruel man and die young in childbirth. But would she have the strength to change her destiny?


35:45: THE VAMPYRE, by Dr. John Polidori (Part 2 of 3):

  • IN WHICH: Our hero, Mr. Aubrey, falls in love with the lovely Greek maiden Ianthe, as he ranges around ancient Greece studying the ruins and antiquities. But when she begs him to be back before sunset from a visit that takes him through a certain forest thicket, and he’s distracted and runs a bit late, he has no idea what terrible things will result …


PLUS —

  • We explore a "broadside ballad" published in 1850: "The Answer to the Wife's Dream" and "Woodman, Spare That Tree" ...
  • 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 Vampyre, and shows the search party finding the body of the vampyre's fair victim.


GLOSSARY OF FLASH TERMS USED IN THIS EPISODE:

  • Knowing cards: What we might today call "smart cookies" — people who are sharp and on the ball.
  • Lawful blankets: Legally married spouses.
  • Knights of the Brush and Moon: Drunken fellows wandering amok by moonlight in fields and ditches, trying to stagger home.
  • Lambskin Men: Judges.
  • 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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