The fog thickens, the murders escalate, and Oscar Wilde suspects something far older than Jack the Ripper is stalking the streets. When a letter addressed to Arthur Conan Doyle surfaces—written by a terrified woman days before her death—the line between fiction and fate begins to blur. Wilde and Doyle spar over logic, legend, and the lure of the occult, while a cursed pen begins to write its own story.

Meanwhile, in a shadowed cellar in Budapest, Grigori Rasputin spins a web of prophecy and manipulation, summoning his masked disciples and setting a trap for a magician who doesn’t yet know he’s been chosen.

This episode blends historical fact with mythic dread: Wilde’s wit, Doyle’s grief, and Rasputin’s rising influence converge in a tale of haunted ink, spectral symbols, and the cost of ignoring a summons from fate.

The Midnight Dispatch is a historical fiction anthology podcast blending real people, places and events with the strange and supernatural. Season 1 reimagines the Jack the Ripper murders through the eyes of famous figures who may be more than they seem.

Written and produced by Joe Ferguson.

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