Just ordered stickers! I can't wait.

5.32: The Coast Guard pounces on the smugglers! — The Maiden’s Surprise. — Introducing Miss Godfrey of 22 Upper Newman-street — our Ninepenny Naughties hostess! (Part 2 — The “Twopenny Torrids.”)

Fresh on the feed: Another Twopenny Torrid episode! Highwayman Dick Turpin finds he doesn't much like the smuggling business! Miss Godfrey of 22 Upper Newman-ftreet is our hostess for the Ninepenny Naughties!

Join us, do! open.spotify.com/episode/6y1Z...

Here's the Spotify link to the fresh "Ha'penny Horrids" minisode that just went live on the feed today — with three chapters of Sweeney Todd, a street broadside about "a norrid murder," and the story of two murderers who were Hanged Today in History!

open.spotify.com/episode/1Ux9...

5.29: The walls start closing around Sweeney Todd! — Two Horrid Murders, served family-style. — One man’s very bad plan to save his kids from eternal damnation (Segment 3 — The “Ha’penny Horrids.”) Podcast Episode · The Penny Dreadful Hour; or, A Feast of Early-Victorian Street Literature and Stories (no AI) · April 5 · 51m

A fresh "Ha'penny Horrids" minisode is on the feed today! With three chapters of Sweeney Todd, a street broadside about "a norrid murder," and the story of two murderers who were Hanged Today in History! (Link is for Apple Podcasts, I'll post a Spotify next.)

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/5...

5.28: The highwaymen caught by the smugglers! — The frolicsome widow who wants to play … at cards! — Meet Miss Davis of Covent-garden — our Ninepenny Naughties hostess! (The “Twopenny Torrids.”)

New episode just went live. It's a "Twopenny Torrids" minisode, with a couple chapters of our highway-robbing friends Dick Turpin and Tom King, who have fallen into the hands of a gang of smugglers! Have they robbed their last traveler? Tune in and find out! open.spotify.com/episode/3OYj...

ooh, where is that happening? I’m jealous.

this actually looks like a book I need to read. If nothing else to plunder the end notes!

Out today! Episode 27: The mob, the stake, and the dead body at the inn: Was he a vampire? — A dueling poet and a gambler’s comeuppance in The Lives of the Highwaymen! (Segment 1 — The “Penny Dreadfuls.”) open.spotify.com/episode/52it...

5.26: Rent for the mansion was dirt cheap — why? — The seduced maiden’s ghostly revenge! — The corpse in the basement. (A “Sixpenny Spookies Podcast Episode · The Penny Dreadful Hour; or, A Feast of Early-Victorian Street Literature and Stories (no AI) · March 26 · 43m

Just out: EPISODE 26: Rent for the mansion was dirt cheap — why? — The seduced maiden’s ghostly revenge! — The corpse in the basement. (Segment 4 — The “Sixpenny Spookies.”)

Link to episode: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

A very stupid AI overview of "The Story of Clifford House" which helpfully clarifies that it is unrelated to the "Clifford the Big Red Dog" children's books.

Google's AI tools aren't good for much, but today they were good for a laugh! (Clifford House is the primary ghost story in today's Sixpenny Spooky episode (coming later this morning). And no, there were no Big Red Dogs harmed in the making of this episode!)

Buster and Rusty are just waiting for the next episode to drop. #PennyDreadful #SweeneyTodd

5.24: The highwayman hears a ghostly voice in the deserted mansion! — How Georgian London loved to gamble and guzzle! — Plus a naughty song and dirty jokes! (Segment 2 — the Twopenny Torrids)

On the Penny Dreadful Hour podcast today, it's the Twopenny Torrids ... open.spotify.com/episode/75nS...

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5.23: The mob continues its vampire hunt in the local cemetery. — A ghostly warning for a fast-living publican. — A horrible disaster in a Scottish coal mine. (Segment 1 — The “Penny Dreadfuls.”)

Episode 23 is now live! I posted it a day early.

By the way, the guy in black that looks like a vampire isn't; he's the town's Puritan "ranter," and he's come out to try and talk the mob members into coming to the Chapel of Little Boozlehum with him next Sunday.

5.03 (corrected): Alone with the vampire in the garden by night! — Mr. Wraxall finally meets Count Magnus and his tentacled companion! — A blasphemer’s Dreadful Fate!

New episode dropped today! open.spotify.com/episode/3q4y...

Rosemary Pardoe's magnificent illustration of the penultimate scene of Count Magnus ... this is the view out the carriage window that poor doomed Mr. Wraxall sees as he arrives home in Belchamp St. Paul ... The story finishes up in tomorrow's episode!

4.19: Lord Walter pays the price for disturbing the dead! — Varney the Vampyre's sinister visitor! — A fatal thunderstorm.

New episode is live today! Get it wherever you get your podcasts, or check it out right here: open.spotify.com/episode/2utn...

Merry Christmas! And since it's a Thursday, we have a fresh ray of early-Victorian sunshine on the podcast feed! open.spotify.com/episode/5mjN...

RUN, RUN ORLANDO, CARVE ON EV'RY STUMP
THE BIG, THE STRONG, THE NON-EPSTEINY TRUMP

—Excerpt from the play "As You Legacy Panic"
Copyright (c) 1623 by Donald J. Trump and William Shakespeare

4.17: Lord Walter’s vampire-bride turns on his children! — Varney’s dreaded visitor. — The ghostly businessman on the train. — The noble generosity of a fierce lion!

Episode 4.17 is up! In which — Lord Walter's vampire-bride, having burned through the local supply of blood donors, now fixes her basilisk-like gaze upon his children, in Wake Not the Dead (1823). Plus more early-Victorian street-literature goodies! open.spotify.com/episode/56JJ...

I think I read someplace a criticism of the VW Bus that it used the driver's legs for a crumple zone ... yep, sounds about right!

4.15: Locked in the vampire’s dungeon. — The fortune-teller’s ghostly visitor. —Walter’s vampire-bride begins to feed!

Now that his once-dead lover is back at his side, can there be any barrier to Walter’s happiness? Well, yes … because suddenly now the youths of his domain suddenly start wasting away, almost as if some night-stalking monster was sucking their blood from them … open.spotify.com/episode/1Qjw...

4.14: The horrors in the vault beneath Sweeny Todd’s shop! — A sea-cave in Scotland steeped in blood, gold, and horror. — The highwaymen give the officers the slip!

“I certainly think we have gained something by not being Ancient Britons any longer than was absolutely necessary.”
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— Magistrate-detective Sir Richard Blunt, in Ch. 68 of Sweeney Todd, in today’s episode of The Penny Dreadful Hour Podcast!
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4.14: The horrors in the vault beneath Sweeny Todd’s shop! — A sea-cave in Scotland steeped in blood, gold, and horror. — The highwaymen give the officers the slip!

Investigating Sweeney Todd, Sir Richard leads the party to the captive cook’s bakehouse-prison. Then he says there is something else he must show them … something, he adds, “more horrible than all the horrors your imagination can suggest.” … He's not kidding. open.spotify.com/episode/43HW...

4.13: Death took his beloved, but sorcery brought her back! What could possibly go wrong? — Flora’s fiancé vanishes! — A horrid murder prevented by a dream! — Haunted Hinton Ampner House!

After a short pause, the sorcerer cried aloud: "Yes, thy heart beats once more with the flood of life! Thine eye is again opened to sight! Arise, therefore, from the tomb!"

From Part 1 of “Wake Not the Dead,” in Episode 13 (season 4)! open.spotify.com/episode/7s7L...

2.07: Sweeney Todd and the loan shark. — A very angry young profligate. — A racy flash song about a buz-napper and a bawd! The Penny Dreadful Variety Hour: An Early Victorian Feast of Crammers and Moonshine! · Episode

Another episode is up and ready! open.spotify.com/episode/0E4M...

New channel art! Very excited about it.

2.05: Lord Lionel's indecent proposal ... Evil Count Lerno's moneymaking scheme ... the perils of raising the dead ... a robber's song! The Penny Dreadful Variety Hour: An Early Victorian Feast of Crammers and Moonshine! · Episode

Another episode on the feed! open.spotify.com/episode/2ADc...

Choose 20 female authors whose work you admire. One author per day for 20 days, in no particular order.

Day 1:

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

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"Carolyn Keene" oh hell yes and Franklin W. Dixon too!