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3.15: "Mad" Lady Edith at MacLomond Castle.— A burglar caught by a cat.— Death on the Manchester Railway. (A Ha'penny Horrors Half-hour minisode)
A half-hour- long (plus a bit) Ha'penny Horror 'Hursday minisode IN WHICH —
0:02:48: THE BLACK BAND; OR, THE COMPANIONS OF MIDNIGHT; IN WHICH —:
- The scene cuts back to Lady Edith Merton, now a prisoner in her boudoir and guarded by a trio of burly madhouse matrons. Then she is awakened in the middle of the night for a secret journey to MacLomond Castle, which is to be her own private asylum in Scotland. It’s a damp, gloomy place with watchtowers and a moat. Such surroundings might drive her mad for real, except for one thing — at one of the railroad stations along the way, someone sent her a telegram containing the single word “hope.” Who could have sent it? And why?
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!
GLOSSARY OF FLASH TERMS USED IN THIS EPISODE:
- BULLY ROCKS: Thugs at the service of a brothel madam.
- COLLEGIATES: Penitentiary prisoners.
- KNIGHTS OF THE BRUSH AND MOON: Drunken fellows wandering amok in meadows and ditches, trying to stagger home.
- FLATS: Innocent, not-too-smart persons who are duped by "sharps." In other words, suckers.
- BUMS: Bailiffs.
- CRAPPING COVES: Pronounced "crêpe-ing," it means hangmen, who cause the widows of the criminals they execute to wear crêpe in mourning.
- THE OLD STONE JUG: Newgate Prison, or prisons in general.
- PADDINGTON FAIR: Execution day at Tyburn Tree gallows, which was located in Paddington parish.
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By Finn J.D. John/ Pulp-Lit Productions
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A half-hour- long (plus a bit) Ha'penny Horror 'Hursday minisode IN WHICH —
0:02:48: THE BLACK BAND; OR, THE COMPANIONS OF MIDNIGHT; IN WHICH —:
- The scene cuts back to Lady Edith Merton, now a prisoner in her boudoir and guarded by a trio of burly madhouse matrons. Then she is awakened in the middle of the night for a secret journey to MacLomond Castle, which is to be her own private asylum in Scotland. It’s a damp, gloomy place with watchtowers and a moat. Such surroundings might drive her mad for real, except for one thing — at one of the railroad stations along the way, someone sent her a telegram containing the single word “hope.” Who could have sent it? And why?
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!
GLOSSARY OF FLASH TERMS USED IN THIS EPISODE:
- BULLY ROCKS: Thugs at the service of a brothel madam.
- COLLEGIATES: Penitentiary prisoners.
- KNIGHTS OF THE BRUSH AND MOON: Drunken fellows wandering amok in meadows and ditches, trying to stagger home.
- FLATS: Innocent, not-too-smart persons who are duped by "sharps." In other words, suckers.
- BUMS: Bailiffs.
- CRAPPING COVES: Pronounced "crêpe-ing," it means hangmen, who cause the widows of the criminals they execute to wear crêpe in mourning.
- THE OLD STONE JUG: Newgate Prison, or prisons in general.
- PADDINGTON FAIR: Execution day at Tyburn Tree gallows, which was located in Paddington parish.
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