HeyJaredThe Penny Dreadful Hour: A Feast of Early-Victorian Street Literature and Stories
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…
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151. The vampire-courtesan leaves the grave to claim her lover! — A strange ghostly schooner approaches England’s shores. — Two haunted abbeys. (The “Sixpenny Spookies.”) (opens the original)
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SHOW NOTES — for — EPISODE 18 (Season Six) (September 6, 2026) 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 early-Victorian London! This show cycles through four themes over a month-long cycle, one show per week. As today is the first Sunday of the month, this is the SIXPENNY SPOOKIES theme show, featuring a Victorian ghostly shortstory, a chapter of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, and other ghostly tales.
150. OOPS! ALL VAMPIRES! Dracula en route to Carfax! — The vampire-courtesan Clarimonde fixes her eye on a young novitiate! — Moonlight revives the murdered vampire! (opens the original)
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Join guest host COUNT CHOCULA, filling in for Corinthian Finn for a one-hour-long spree through the scandal-sheets and story papers of early-Victorian London! This show cycles through four themes over a month-long cycle, one show per week. As today is the fifth Sunday of the month, this is a bonus show: OOPS! ALL VAMPIRES! It’s a solid wall of blood-curdling fun. Our regular sequence will start afresh for September with next week’s “Sixpenny Spookies” episode, which will be followed by ... The “
149. Highwayman Tom King plots his escape from the prison! — The Smuggler’s Bride! — Introducing MISS BROWN, our Ninepenny Naughties hostess! (The “Twopenny Torrids”) (opens the original)
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NOTE: This episode published early by popular demand! :-) SHOW NOTES — for — EPISODE 16 (Season Six) (August 23, 2026) ———— 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 early-Victorian London! ———— For COMPLETE SHOW NOTES, including art and links to resources, see pennydread.com/discord. ———— IN TODAY'S "TWOPENNY TORRIDS" EPISODE: 01:55: STREET POETRY: From a broadside ballad: “The Smuggler’s B
148: Sweeney Todd’s attempt to kill Mrs. Lovett backfires! — A husband-killing wife, a wife-murdering husband, and a husband-and-wife murder team. (A “Ha’penny Horrors” episode)) (opens the original)
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SHOW NOTES — for — EPISODE 15 (Season Six) (August 16, 2026) ———— 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 early-Victorian London! This show cycles through four themes over a month-long cycle, one show per week. As today is the first Sunday of the month, this is the HA’PENNY HORRIDS theme show, featuring a few chapters of SWEENEY TODD, a true-crime story or two from the Penny Dreadful era, and
147: Someone tries to MURDER the VAMPYRE ... but the moon is full tonight! — A Highwayman’s APPRENTICESHIP program. — The BODY-SNATCHERS. (A "Graanum-gold Gothics" theme episode) (opens the original)
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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 early-Victorian London! This show cycles through four themes over a four-week cycle, one show per week. This is the GRAANUM GOTHICS theme show, featuring Varney the Vampyre and other Gothic drama. It will be followed by ... The “Ha’penny Horrors” theme episode, coming next Sunday (the third Sunday of the month); The “Twopenny Torrids” theme episode, comi
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