September 25, 2025

3.18: Is Tobias finally safe from Sweeney Todd? Um, no ... — Buried alive! — A horrifying tiger attack. — Highway Robbery: A Stevens Family Tradition. (A Ha'penny Horrors Half-hour minisode)

32 minutes

A half-hour- long (plus a bit) Ha'penny Horror 'Hursday minisode IN WHICH —

0:01:57: SWEENEY TODD, THE BARBER OF FLEET-STREET, Chapter 58:

IN WHICH:— Tobias is better, and talks a little about his experience at the shop to Minna and Colonel Jeffrey. But he can’t shake the dread that “when I least expect it, round the curtains of my bed, or from behind some chair, or from some cupboard about twilight, I shall not see the hideous face of Sweeney Todd?” Colonel Jeffrey assures him such a thing is quite impossible. Watched night and day by officers of the law, Todd is “more securely kept now than any wild beast in his den.” Does Tobias believe such assurances? More importantly … should he believe them?

0:15:38: BURIED ALIVE.

A brief and tragic account of a grave-digger who went to work in the morning and ... didn't return for lunch.

0:17:05: AN ACCOUNT OF THE DYING WORDS AND EXECUTION of John, Peter, and William Stevens, A FATHER AND TWO SONS, who Underwent the Awful Sentence of the Law at Derby on Saturday, April 6, 1835, for Highway Robbery (an execution broadside).

No Dick Turpin "Stand and Deliver" highway robbery here! The Stevens boys prefered to bludgeon their victims senseless with clubs and just take whatever they could find on them, as today's Execution Broadside tells.

0:22:36: THE TERRIFIC REGISTER:

An account of the awful death of a young shipmate, when the trading vessel had put in to shore to hunt some deer to supplement rations on an island infested with tigers.

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:

TOPPING COVES: Hangmen.
BODY SNATCHERS: Police officers, thief-takers, and other law-enforcement and para-law-enforcement men.
KNIGHTS OF THE BRUSH AND MOON: Drunken fellows wandering amok in meadows and ditches, trying to stagger home.
CORINTHIAN: A fancy toff or titled swell. Used here as a reference to Corinthian Tom, the quintessential Regency rake depicted in Pierce Egan's "Life in London" (usually referred to as "Tom and Jerry")
CHAFFING-CRIB: A room where drinking and bantering are going on.
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.
TUCK-UP FAIR: Execution day at Newgate.
DUNWITCH, BARONY OF: A small estate in the hills West of Arkham, according to Colonial chronicler H.P. Lovecraft. Does not actually exist, but if it did, would be headed by Finn J.D. John, 18th Baron Dunwitch.
DUNSANY, BARONY OF: A large estate in Ireland, including Dunsany Castle in County Meath, headed until 1957 by legendary fantasy author Edward J.M.D. Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany.

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September 25, 2025

3.18: Is Tobias finally safe from Sweeney Todd? Um, no ... — Buried alive! — A horrifying tiger attack. — Highway Robbery: A Stevens Family Tradition. (A Ha'penny Horrors Half-hour minisode)

32 minutes

A half-hour- long (plus a bit) Ha'penny Horror 'Hursday minisode IN WHICH —

0:01:57: SWEENEY TODD, THE BARBER OF FLEET-STREET, Chapter 58:

IN WHICH:— Tobias is better, and talks a little about his experience at the shop to Minna and Colonel Jeffrey. But he can’t shake the dread that “when I least expect it, round the curtains of my bed, or from behind some chair, or from some cupboard about twilight, I shall not see the hideous face of Sweeney Todd?” Colonel Jeffrey assures him such a thing is quite impossible. Watched night and day by officers of the law, Todd is “more securely kept now than any wild beast in his den.” Does Tobias believe such assurances? More importantly … should he believe them?

0:15:38: BURIED ALIVE.

A brief and tragic account of a grave-digger who went to work in the morning and ... didn't return for lunch.

No Dick Turpin "Stand and Deliver" highway robbery here! The Stevens boys prefered to bludgeon their victims senseless with clubs and just take whatever they could find on them, as today's Execution Broadside tells.

0:22:36: THE TERRIFIC REGISTER:

An account of the awful death of a young shipmate, when the trading vessel had put in to shore to hunt some deer to supplement rations on an island infested with tigers.

GLOSSARY OF FLASH TERMS USED IN THIS EPISODE:

TOPPING COVES: Hangmen.
BODY SNATCHERS: Police officers, thief-takers, and other law-enforcement and para-law-enforcement men.
KNIGHTS OF THE BRUSH AND MOON: Drunken fellows wandering amok in meadows and ditches, trying to stagger home.
CORINTHIAN: A fancy toff or titled swell. Used here as a reference to Corinthian Tom, the quintessential Regency rake depicted in Pierce Egan's "Life in London" (usually referred to as "Tom and Jerry")
CHAFFING-CRIB: A room where drinking and bantering are going on.
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.
TUCK-UP FAIR: Execution day at Newgate.
DUNWITCH, BARONY OF: A small estate in the hills West of Arkham, according to Colonial chronicler H.P. Lovecraft. Does not actually exist, but if it did, would be headed by Finn J.D. John, 18th Baron Dunwitch.
DUNSANY, BARONY OF: A large estate in Ireland, including Dunsany Castle in County Meath, headed until 1957 by legendary fantasy author Edward J.M.D. Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany.

...more

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