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4.07: The vampire victim's story is eerily familiar. — The youngest highway robber. — A ghostly vengeance. — Was this mysterious stowaway Varney the Vampyre?
Join host Corinthian Finn, a.k.a. Finn J.D. John 18th Baron Dunwitch,* for a one-hour-long spree through the scandal-sheets and story papers of old London!
This is our main one-hour Sunday-night episode. Including, after the break, the "Sixpenny Spookies" segment.
The first segment of the Sunday show contains a chapter of Varney the Vampire, along with sundry other tidbits of early-Victorian street literature — INCLUDING ...
- 01:06: VARNEY THE VAMPYRE; or, THE FEAST OF BLOOD, Chapter 25: Charles Holland consults his uncle and borrows 50 pounds, which he intends to place at Henry Bannerworth’s disposal to relieve his money woes. He asks the admiral if ever he has seen something so weird as this vampire business, and the admiral describes an encounter with a strange character at sea who appeared on his ship in defiance of the captain’s desires, seemed to command the weather, and vanished just before they arrived in port. We are left wondering, as the admiral obviously does, it that character might have been Sir Francis Varney himself …
- 33:15: TERRIFIC REGISTER ARTICLE: The curriculum vitae of a very interesting juvenile delinquent named Leary, whose exploits in theft, pickpocketing, and highway robbery have resulted in his being transported to Australia for life.
PART II: "THE SIXPENNY SPOOKIES," 0:38:10 — 1:09:30:
This second segment of the show brings you Victorian ghost stories, spooky street literature, and sundry other tidbits — INCLUDING ...
- 38:42: EARLY VICTORIAN GHOSTLY SHORT STORY, TO-WIT: Carmilla by J.S. Le Fanu, Part 7 of 9 (chapters 11 and 12): General Spielsdorf tells his story — a story of a strange noble lady in velvet who suddenly has to fly on a matter of life and death in her travelling-coach, leaving her beautiful dark-haired daughter Millarca in the care of the general and his young ward Bertha. The lady, the daughter, the travelling-coach — everything sounds so much like Carmilla’s story. Is it her? Or her twin sister? We will, hopefully, soon find out …
- 58:05: A SHORT GHOST STORY from a street broadside of the type called a “catchpenny” — which claims to be a true story, but probably isn’t: The ghost of a murdered woman appears to a miller to demand he help bring her killer to justice.
- 1:05:30: A FEW SQUEAKY-CLEAN DAD JOKES from the early-1800s' most popular joke book: "Joe Miller's Jests; or, The Wit's Vade-mecum."
A new episode of the show is released every Sunday and Thursday evening at 5:37 p.m. London time!
* The Barony of Dunwitch is located in a deep forest glade west of Arkham (where, as H.P. Lovecraft put it, “the hills rise wild, and there are valleys with deep woods that no axe has ever cut; there are dark narrow glens where the trees slope fantastically, and where thin brooklets trickle without ever having caught the glint of sunlight.”) Actually it is a good 3,000 miles west of Arkham. It is not to be confused with Dunwich, the English seacoast town that fell house by house into the sea centuries ago, or Dunsany, the home until 1957 of legendary fantasy author Edward J.M.D. Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany.
GLOSSARY OF FLASH TERMS USED IN THIS EPISODE:
- NABOBS: Swell coves who have made their fortunes abroad and returned home to Old Blighty to enjoy it.
- NATTY LADS: Good-looking young pickpockets.
- FLICKER: Drinking glass.
- EYE WATER: Gin — utility grade, not the good stuff.
- JOBBER KNOTS: Tall stupid fellows.
- BLUNDERBUSSES: Blustering ignorant fellows.
- 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.
A full glossary of the flash-cant terms used in this episode is at https://pennydread.com/discord in the "#season-4-episodes" thread.
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Join host Corinthian Finn, a.k.a. Finn J.D. John 18th Baron Dunwitch,* for a one-hour-long spree through the scandal-sheets and story papers of old London!
This is our main one-hour Sunday-night episode. Including, after the break, the "Sixpenny Spookies" segment.
The first segment of the Sunday show contains a chapter of Varney the Vampire, along with sundry other tidbits of early-Victorian street literature — INCLUDING ...
- 01:06: VARNEY THE VAMPYRE; or, THE FEAST OF BLOOD, Chapter 25: Charles Holland consults his uncle and borrows 50 pounds, which he intends to place at Henry Bannerworth’s disposal to relieve his money woes. He asks the admiral if ever he has seen something so weird as this vampire business, and the admiral describes an encounter with a strange character at sea who appeared on his ship in defiance of the captain’s desires, seemed to command the weather, and vanished just before they arrived in port. We are left wondering, as the admiral obviously does, it that character might have been Sir Francis Varney himself …
- 33:15: TERRIFIC REGISTER ARTICLE: The curriculum vitae of a very interesting juvenile delinquent named Leary, whose exploits in theft, pickpocketing, and highway robbery have resulted in his being transported to Australia for life.
PART II: "THE SIXPENNY SPOOKIES," 0:38:10 — 1:09:30:
This second segment of the show brings you Victorian ghost stories, spooky street literature, and sundry other tidbits — INCLUDING ...
- 38:42: EARLY VICTORIAN GHOSTLY SHORT STORY, TO-WIT: Carmilla by J.S. Le Fanu, Part 7 of 9 (chapters 11 and 12): General Spielsdorf tells his story — a story of a strange noble lady in velvet who suddenly has to fly on a matter of life and death in her travelling-coach, leaving her beautiful dark-haired daughter Millarca in the care of the general and his young ward Bertha. The lady, the daughter, the travelling-coach — everything sounds so much like Carmilla’s story. Is it her? Or her twin sister? We will, hopefully, soon find out …
- 58:05: A SHORT GHOST STORY from a street broadside of the type called a “catchpenny” — which claims to be a true story, but probably isn’t: The ghost of a murdered woman appears to a miller to demand he help bring her killer to justice.
- 1:05:30: A FEW SQUEAKY-CLEAN DAD JOKES from the early-1800s' most popular joke book: "Joe Miller's Jests; or, The Wit's Vade-mecum."
A new episode of the show is released every Sunday and Thursday evening at 5:37 p.m. London time!
* The Barony of Dunwitch is located in a deep forest glade west of Arkham (where, as H.P. Lovecraft put it, “the hills rise wild, and there are valleys with deep woods that no axe has ever cut; there are dark narrow glens where the trees slope fantastically, and where thin brooklets trickle without ever having caught the glint of sunlight.”) Actually it is a good 3,000 miles west of Arkham. It is not to be confused with Dunwich, the English seacoast town that fell house by house into the sea centuries ago, or Dunsany, the home until 1957 of legendary fantasy author Edward J.M.D. Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany.
GLOSSARY OF FLASH TERMS USED IN THIS EPISODE:
- NABOBS: Swell coves who have made their fortunes abroad and returned home to Old Blighty to enjoy it.
- NATTY LADS: Good-looking young pickpockets.
- FLICKER: Drinking glass.
- EYE WATER: Gin — utility grade, not the good stuff.
- JOBBER KNOTS: Tall stupid fellows.
- BLUNDERBUSSES: Blustering ignorant fellows.
- 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.
A full glossary of the flash-cant terms used in this episode is at https://pennydread.com/discord in the "#season-4-episodes" thread.
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