The Midnight Dispatch

The Midnight Dispatch presents Season 1: The Ripper & The Rift — a 12-part historical fiction thriller set in the gaslit shadows of Victorian London.

It’s 1890. The city is modernizing, but something ancient is stirring beneath the cobblestones. When a terrified woman collides with Oscar Wilde outside a theater, she sets off a chain of events that draws Wilde and his companions into a mystery far stranger than scandal or murder. As bodies begin to appear — marked with symbols no one can explain — Wilde finds himself entangled with British Intelligence, occult secrets, and a darkness that predates the Empire itself.

Blending real historical figures with supernatural intrigue, The Ripper & The Rift reimagines the Jack the Ripper murders through the eyes of artists, spies, and skeptics caught in a widening breach between reason and ritual.

Written and produced by Joe Ferguson, The Midnight Dispatch is an anthology podcast where each season explores a different time, place, and mystery — all rooted in the strange intersections of history and imagination.

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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.

Send your theories, questions and comments to: [email protected]

Check out patreon.com/themidnightdispatch for bonus content.

London, 1890. Gaslamps flicker, fog thickens and something ancient stirs beneath the cobblestones. In this premiere episode, Oscar Wilde and artist Frank Miles navigate the quiet decadence of Victorian society — until a terrified woman crashes into Wilde outside a theater, claiming she’s being watched. The encounter sets off a chain of events that leads Wilde through the heart of London's alleyways and into a mystery far darker than any review or scandal.

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.

Send your theories, questions and comments to: [email protected]

Check out patreon.com/themidnightdispatch for bonus content.