<p>IN WHICH we are introduced to Finn J.D. John, and to "Varney, the Vampyre; or, The Feast of Blood: A Romance," the first Penny Dreadful serial-gothic-horror story to receive the GDT3K treatment. Please, pour yourself a generous goblet of well-aged Amontillado and join us!</p>

IN WHICH we are introduced to Finn J.D. John, and to "Varney, the Vampyre; or, The Feast of Blood: A Romance," the first Penny Dreadful serial-gothic-horror story to receive the GDT3K treatment. Please, pour yourself a generous goblet of well-aged Amontillado and join us!

Introducing GDT3K, and our first "Penny Dreadful": Varney, the Vampyre; or, The Feast of Blood!

This is the podcast that carries you back to the sooty, foggy streets of early-Victorian London when a new issue of one of the "Penny Dreadful" blood-and-thunder story paper comes out!

It's like an early-Victorian variety show, FEATURING ...

— Sweeney Todd ...
— Varney, the Vampyre ... 
— Highwayman Dick Turpin ... 
— mustache-twirling villains ...
— virtuous ballet-girls ...
—wicked gamblers ...
... and more! 

Spiced with naughty cock-and-hen-club songs, broadsheet street ballads, and lots of old Regency "dad jokes."

Join us!

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This is the podcast that carries you back to the sooty, foggy streets of early-Victorian London when a new issue of one of the "Penny Dreadful" blood-and-thunder story paper comes out! It's like an early-Victorian variety show, FEATURING ... — Sweeney Todd ... — Varney, the Vampyre ... — Highwayman Dick Turpin ... — mustache-twirling villains ... — virtuous ballet-girls ... —wicked gamblers ... ... and more! Spiced with naughty cock-and-hen-club songs, broadsheet street ballads, and lots of old Regency "dad jokes." Join us!

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Introducing GDT3K, and our first "Penny Dreadful": Varney, the Vampyre; or, The Feast of Blood!

Introducing GDT3K, and our first "Penny Dreadful": Varney, the Vampyre; or, The Feast of Blood!

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